James Rasile liked the forum thread, Deus Hex Machina
@Amanda Orneck Here's my take on it; find your niche. Jamison had tremendous success going to cons and leveraging his in-person presence. Brian Guthrie had similar success by pushing his massive Facebook following and a knack for communicating online. Like Jamison says; it takes a specific personality to do what he did and that can be said of any kind of successful endeavour. You might not have it in you to do what he did, or what Brian did, but you may very well have something completely different yet equally as potentially successful. Look to your strength and find out how to use them to find new readers. 

The one thing both Jamison and Brian, and anyone else who's found success in these campaigns, have in common is perseverance and an ability to find and engage with new groups of people. If you can do that, you can probably sell your book.

Good luck.
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    James Rasile liked the forum thread, Trying to drive buyers
    Twitter is a marketing black hole. If you write (and you do) and and tweet about writing using writing-related hashtags (and I’m assuming that you do), then most of your followers will be fellow writers, not readers. Basically, marketing on Twitter is selling to other authors who are only there to sell to you.

    I’m in the same position that you are. So far, the vast majority of what I’ve sold (only 17 copies) has been from personal connections...friends, direct emails via the project panel, etc... .

    I’ve added some fan art to my page to spiffy it up a bit and am working on a simple book promo video, but there’s still the issue of driving eyeball traffic to the page in the first place...

    *cough*

    http://shift.greatscifi.space (forwards to inkshares page)

    *sniff*

    *wink*
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      Agreed. Thank you. This chapter is still in the early stages. Any advice, critique is more than welcome!
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            We did it!  You did it!  With your help, After Man took second place in the Geek and Sundry contest.  Michelle and I are so grateful for your support, especially the Rise supporters who came back to help again.  We now move our focus to getting the rewrite finished and off to Inkshares for developmental edit.

            For the new followers that came on board in the first 24 hours after the contest ended but were unable to pre-order because of the glitch that turned After Man into an unfunded book, the problem has been fixed.

            Stay tuned next week for the Geek and Sundry announcement of which of the three contest winners gets the nod as the first book in the Geek and Sundry collection.  If you haven’t checked out the other two winning books, I encourage you to do so now.  You can find links to them here.

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