If you were to ask me how the marketing of my book has been going so far, I would have to answer, “Slow… very slow.” I’m not giving up because I have to assume that every other author has gone through a similar journey. Maybe they had fewer hurdles to jump over. Maybe they were building a following before they published. I can only speak for myself.

For those of you who are following me on this journey, I don’t want to bore you with the details. Thus far, as I mentioned in my last blog, I am joining reading groups and promoting my book. I join about four to five groups a week and go back to previous groups and post again. Thus far, it has earned me zero sales. (So far my sales have come from the word-of-mouth marketing done by my middle-schooler, who has been reading my book for a school book report.)

Meanwhile, I have been posting daily on my Facebook page. I’ve posted character analyses, samples of the book that I have released, and story prompts for stories that I haven’t even started. With the last of my funds, I hired a team to help me revamp my website. I don’t know how it will integrate with this blog. Fingers crossed that it will all integrate nicely.

So, if you ask me what I have learned about this entire process, I would have to answer. “Marketing is hard, unless you are a thirteen-year-old with a book report.”