I'm trying hard to do a better job of promoting the second book in the Marge Christensen Mystery Series. Since the first book came out I've learned a lot. But, readers like to read series in the order they were written, and those who first read this book and like it are already going to have the first two out of order. When the third one comes out I need to figure out some way to make sure people know it is preceded by two others, so they can get those first. That sounds a little circular, doesn't it??
Just got my first blurb back and it looks like the reader liked the book. She's one of the first "mystery reader" types to do a first read, so it means something if she likes it when she has read many other mystery authors. Word of mouth is more important for a self published author than one with the distribution power of a publisher behind the book, so I hope this round of ARC readings -- about ten times as many as I did with the first book -- will spread that circle.
But I still have to take the time to learn how to use the internet to sell my books. And I have to get them on Kindle. But thats a project for a couple months down the road, at least.
All this left brain activity does nothing to help me keep going on the third book!
About Me
- Pat Batta
- I've been a writer since the fourth grade when the teacher instructed the class to write a story. I was so thrilled with process of creating a different world on paper that I wrote another one, and another, and another…. For many years I wrote mainly between jobs for my own pleasure or work related writing. Still, by the time I retired I had drafted two mystery novels and was working on a third. I revised and completed the first of the Marge Christensen Mystery Series, What Did You Do Before Dying? and published it in 2008. The second, Why Did You Die In the Park? , came out in 2009 and the third, Who More Than Wished You Were Dead? in 2010. Where Did You Die? was released in mid-2012, How Many Old Ladies Will Die? in 2013, and When Will the Secrets End? in 2015