One of the aims of my blog was to publicise my writing.
I don’t do a very good job of marketing. I enjoy writing. I love writing novels and other books. I hate editing, marketing and merchandising. It takes up good writing time.
However I can see that it seems fairly pointless writing lots of books if nobody reads them. I see it as the difference between sex and masturbation. But that’s just me.
I naively thought that I’d set up a blog, write about whatever took my fancy, attract in fellow-minded individuals, and they would be turned on enough by my interests, turn of phrase and diverse mental machinations to want to purchase all my books. I would then have an audience.
It hasn’t quite worked that way.
The blog takes up a lot of my time. I write as much on the blog as I do for the books.
The followers are relatively few. The book sales are steady and undramatic and the reviews are verbally brilliant but substantially sparse.
As I am a passionate writer who believes that I have something to say and have an interesting style, some skills and produce very readable, quirky, and original material I live in hope.
If you are interested in what I write and would like to purchase a book I would direct you to Amazon (I know) where my books are all sitting comfortably awaiting new homes. They long to be adopted in either paperback or kindle.
Why not, for a small sum, give a home to an Opher book? You’ll learn to love it.
For those in the UK –
PS – If you are one of those beautiful people who have purchased and enjoyed one of my books – please leave a review on Amazon
I purchased Green 🙂 The synopsis sounded very interesting. Unfortunately, I won’t have time to read much during the next month (NaNo!) but once November is over I want to get back into the reading groove. And I also want to start doing book reviews on my blog by self-published authors because I believe word of mouth is key! Take care! ~Tamara
Tamar – You’re wonderful! Thank you. I hope you love it! Cheers Opher
Well I certainly enjoyed Ebola in the Garden of Eden and will review it soon. Who does your book covers as they have a similar style and are very distinctive?
I’m glad you enjoyed Ebola in the Garden of Eden. I find it good to write novels that are hopefully readable but with an underlying meaning.
I design all my own covers. I use my own paintings and photographs – apart from the cover of the Education book which was taken by my wife at a wedding in Italy. All my own work. Glad you like them. They are a bit different.
Yes and I also think you should try the Young Adult Market and schools. Perhaps it is all about having a good agent….. Pity though!
It’ll happen or it won’t! Either way I’ll have the books.