Aug 14, 2016

Every week my marketing team do an analyze of how well the book in doing publicly by the number of sites visitations,  likes, dislikes, what geographic areas and what languages it has reached.  We started the marketing in May 2016 and so far it has reached over seventy nine countries and the titles can be found in over fourteen different languages. From their reports it has reach over 3.8 million people and isn’t even in print yet.  "Clash with the Immortals" has made over a  million Twitter impressions in one week.  We went to the public first because that is who will be buying the literary work. We went to John Q Public to see if they liked it. 

Some may say this is all well and good but that doesn’t translate into sales. I will agree, it doesn’t. But it lets me know it will be very well perceived when finally in print. I, now know that many more likes it than I did four months ago. 

Some may say those were only polite "likes". I beg to differ, let’s be frank, the public isn’t often very nice. If they hate something, they’ll not hesitate to tell you.

Yesterday, I was in a local chain supermarket and had been shopping there for five years and no one noticed me and certainly never let me cut in front of them.  I noticed several people seemed to had been watching me. Call me paranoid or whatever but I notice my surrounding. One lady took the incentive to ask me my name. I also asked, "Who wants to know?" But her smile was so friendly I didn’t. I told her and turned to the others and said. "I told you it was her!"

Having never signed anything for anyone other than a bank check, the experience of signing receipts and address books was a little intimidating for me. I did it right in the supermarket aisle among the canned vegetables. So officially I have had my first signing. It was all totally unplanned.

Had I known I would meet fans I would’ve made myself more presentable.