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Pacific Ocean viewed from Panama's west coast — Pacific Ocean viewed from Panama’s west coast

Perhaps I shouldn’t book my place on a luxury cruise yet, or buy a little place in the Swiss Alps, but since publishing my novel ‘Ten Days’, just ten days ago, I’ve now recorded ten sales. I even have a review from one happy customer – so how good is that!

My marketing campaign is presently based on electronic warfare – my e-book against all the others that are out there. I’ve sent out sample invitations to all my email contacts (yes all three of them), and now once again I’ll give it a mention on my Facebook page to jog memories. Perhaps you are one of the people who is on the fence. Why not follow the link to check out a sample or check out the review. It might sway you into buying. ‘Ten Days’ the novel: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/257906

What else have I got in the pipeline? Apart from my second novel, I’m well on the way to producing what will be the first of five volumes of poetry. Each e-book will be made up of a different genre: Humour, Natural History, Love and Romance, Military and Series poetry. The Series poetry will contain a variety of topics, with some as short as 4 poems, whilst others are in excess of 20.

In an effort to promote some interest my intention is to offer the first volume, ‘Humour’ as FREE. If all goes according to plan it will be available for download by as early as next weekend. I will of course give it a few mentions on Facebook, just in case anybody misses it here.

There will be a slight change with the books of poetry, in that I’m intending to deal with the front covers and titles myself. Now that I’ve passed all this on, I’m sure it will be no surprise that I’ll have to go now … press releases to write.

It took eleven months, four drafts and a little help, but it’s out there.

‘Ten Days’, my romantic thriller is published on Smashwords. According to all I’ve heard, the hard work starts now – the marketing. Well, I’ve been in retail for 20 years so I must have learned something about marketing.

I published this morning and since then I’ve networked with several folk on Facebook and sent out a message on Twitter, which will be amended and retweeted over the next week or two, just in case it is missed by anyone. I’ve sent out links for the 20% sample to a few people and I have a few more to add to that list.

Perhaps a little unique, but I’ve also written a poem with a flavour of the main characters. I’ll post that on The Starlite Cafe site when I’ve tidied up the lines a little more. For now I’ll have my front cover on here and this brief post. Now I’ll have to get back to my big push.

What’s next? Tomorrow I’ll be formatting the manuscript for publication on Amazon/Kindle.

A link? Of course: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/257906

Please check it out, or better still, buy it! As Arnie said, ‘I’ll be back!’