I feel like I left my sanity at the door when I walked in. I have been doing the same things over and over again, and thus far, as sane reasoning would suggest, the same results are occurring. So, it must be my own insanity that has me hoping for a different result.

Half the time, I think that I am dealing with fake AI bots that have become my followers on both Facebook and TikTok. It’s enough to cause a person to have an existential crisis. What is real? Is anyone real? Do other people have as poor of success as I am having? Or is that just me?

This week I went out and put a link to my book on various book reader groups on Facebook. Many of them don’t allow you to self-promote or, worse, only let the group administrators promote. I am trying my best to follow the rules, but it gets irritating.

My attempts to put my link on Reddit have had no comments. I can only guess that it has tracked down to the bottom of the feed to “no man’s land.” My TikTok videos are getting seen, and if I were setting out to be an influencer, I would be more excited by that, but none of the watchers must be book readers, or they would have bought the book. 

My grand total of sales thus far, not counting what I bought, is 3 books and 1 Kindle Unlimited reader. So tell me, blog readers. If failure is a step on the road to success, what step should I take next with this book? I am not giving up, but in the maze of failures and success, I would like guidance to the more positive outcome.