Meredith Mansfield, Author

Well, now that I’ve got a toe in the water on e-publishing, it’s time to think about marketing.

I haven’t done much of that, yet–and my sales show it. Frankly, with only “Heart of Oak” published so far, I think it’s a bit premature. “Heart of Oak” is a novelette (roughly one-tenth of a full novel). But more e-published stories are coming, so it’s not too soon to think about marketing.

Smashwords publishes a very good, free e-book on marketing, so I’ll just post the link to it, here. There are some really good ideas in there that I’ll want to consider when I e-publish BLOOD WILL TELL at the end of this month or the beginning of May. That’s when I plan to take marketing a lot more seriously. Even better, every idea in there is also free to implement. And a lot of them would be really easy, too.

One of the big tips is to have multiple titles out there. I have that underway. “Heart of Oak” is out. As soon as I hear back about “Becoming Lioness” (assuming the market that currently has it on submission rejects it), that’s going up. I have a romance novella “The Music Box” that will be e-published as soon as I’ve gotten a little feedback on it. Then the full-court press for BLOOD WILL TELL and get cracking on revisions to BLOOD IS THICKER and a draft of the third book in the series, BLOOD STAINS.

Hmm. One of the things I need to do is to come up with a title for that series as a whole, too.