Looking For The Magic

Ok, I get it. It takes time to become a famous author. Yes there are over night sensations but most of of us will not be that lucky . So I am putting my nose to the grindstone and pushing "The Rainbow Rooster"  and "Sheep Dreams " as hard as I can. Next week we will be launching book number three " A Crabby Day In Maine". My illustrator (Ealine Niemi ) and I are in hopes of being able to publish two books a month. Check out Elaine and her artwork out on Facebook she is an absolutely amazing Maine artist and it appears that everyone knows it but her, because she has original painting for sale for as little as 35.00 !! Trust me they will not stay that cheap :)

                                                                       

I could talk about Elaine all day, I love that lady to pieces and she does an excellent job  on her illustrations , but back to the topic. Marketing ! I know I have wrote a lot on marketing but after writing a great book , nobody will know it even exists until they see it. So your first goal is to get your book seen. Second, Being seen is not enough ! Think about it, how much do we see all day everyday in the way of advertisements,ideas, video's,pictures. There has to be something in that moment that in what ever modality you are using to market your book  that get a persons eyes stop scrolling long enough for their brains to say, "Hey there's something cool, lets look at it "! To make that happen you have to have not only a great idea , but the skills ( or someone who does )to actualize that idea or like me you have to be tendentious enough to to hunt for ways to build your skills to actualize your ideas . Unless of course you have a budget and you can hire someone to do it for you (how fun would that be ). I myself have started with a platform I am relatively comfortable with. I make my book trailers in moviemaker. I use a free photoshop type program for any tweeking I want done one my books or to make comment to share on social media pages. Now I'm not saying that is ideal, what I am saying is, it is what I know how to so I do it and keep looking to improve my skills instead of not doing it at all. Starting somewhere is waaaay better than not starting at all.               

As far as the results go, I am feeling really encouraged that "Sheep Dreams" is getting a lot of shares on Pinterest and I am loving all my readers her on the Rainbow Rooster Blog ! So that you are here with me right now says that that we are doing something that is working ! Like always I love forward to your comments and ideas,so be sure to leave them below ! Talk to you tomorrow !!!