twoflower

My action item list for promoting anachronauts, now that we have some solid chapters worth promoting...

* Submit it to StumbleUpon under "books". Well, I submitted it, but I can't figure out how to tag the damn thing. I've never used SU before. Anybody wanna help there?

* Join the Bookaholics Blogring. App's in the mail, code's on the page.

* Join some blogcatalog groups on reading and writing. I'm iffy on this. I'm in enough damn social media networks as is; I don't want to have to worm my way into another and spend time participating long enough to gather the ethos needed to advertise there. I could learn more as a writer, yes, but I only have so many hours in the day here.

* Submit to webfictionguide.com. Done. Hopefully they'll approve it. I kinda floundered at having to write a 50-100 word summary of the series.

This is the first time I've actually made an effort at promotion, honestly. I prefer to just Do My Thing and let the chips fall where they may, hence my reluctance at going beyond "submit a link to site foo". I'm not a singing, dancing marketing agent here to jump through firey hoops to make the public interested in my thing. My job is to write the story because writing is a lovely experience for me, and that is typically the end of my involvement.

What can you do to help? Get word out any way you want. Tell friends, twitter it, blog it, post it to various wacky Web 2.0 sites, do whatever you like. Generally I rely on word of mouth, since this is not a moneymaking enterprise and paying for ads would be silly.

Thanks for your ongoing support. This should be a fun ride.