Or really, any independent artist’s day, come to think of it.
Rate and review our stuff… whether it’s on Amazon, Walmart, Goodreads, Audible- feedback like that is incredibly valuable for us to connect to new readers. Throw some stars on there, maybe even a few words about what you liked. Tap into your inner Siskel and Ebert… especially if it’s something you liked.
I was talking to Rick this morning (I know, it’s weird, married over ten years and we still talk n stuff) about how my books don’t really fit into the popular paranormal romance category- they frankly aren’t supposed to. To me, every one of them (save the self help book) are just stories… the kinds of stories I want to read. Stories with characters that screw up, that want to do what’s right but can’t figure out what that is, and maybe with a dusting of something magical that hardly ever fixes things, but usually just screws everything up worse. And sometimes they make you laugh. Sometimes they make you cry. Most importantly to me is that they make you feel.
The bad part about not fitting into a genre is that a lot of the sales mechanisms out there are all about pigeonholing work into a certain category. And when it doesn’t fit, it doesn’t get noticed. And not being noticed means worse things than not being sold.. it means not being read.
So, if anything I or someone else has written has made you feel, please help other people find us…