Release day is upon us and the sun in my world burns bright and troublingly
hot.
Nerves.
Panic.
All those tiresome things that strangle me more times than not are
already having a field day this morning.
*angrily sighs*
I get awful tired of me from time to time.
*shivers and gets her crap together*
While Writhe will not hit the bookshelves for a few hours yet, I
will not bombard you with promotional teases or pleas to throw a few coins my
book’s way (that blog post will come later today *innocently grins*). I will
however give you newbie authors out there a taste of how release day operates
for me.
*chairs scrape as 99% of the
audience rises and hurries toward the exits*
Ignoring all such clattering like a girl with delusions of grandeur
must, I begin…
1) Check Ravenous Romance’s website (www.ravenousromance.com) every few
minutes until I see “Writhe by Chloe Stowe” blazing across their
homepage as the Book of the Day. (Usually this occurs somewhere around the 11am
hour.)
2) Shoot off fast and furious tweets to my followers announcing the
initial outing of book #15.
3) Start the laborious task of posting in all my groups around the web
spreading the good word along with a link back to Ravenous (the only place at
this early hour for them to buy my masterpiece.)
4) Write and post a “Special Edition” blog complete with official
blurb, cover and loooong juicy excerpt for those hungry.
5) After obsessively checking the various ebook suppliers for Writhe’s
arrival, I will start peppering out word of my baby’s availability at each of
the major outlets. All Romance Ebooks usually comes first with Amazon pulling
in the caboose.
6) Once a fair amount of outlets are selling Writhe, I craft the
lone promotional email I will send to all my friends and contacts on Facebook,
Google, etc. (I never send more than one email to these lists, EVER. They only
receive email from me on the day of release of one of my novels. Being thought
of as spam is what you’re trying to avoid. So be very creative and as personal
in each letter as rationally possible.)
7) Continue checking Ravenous Romance’s Best Selling List. This has
been going on rather obsessively since the 11am release, never mind the fact
that Ravenous does not update their Best Selling List on any kind of schedule
or regularity I’ve been able to figure out over the years. (The OCD tendencies
are really out of control with this, but such is life as a crazy person, I
suppose. *lol*)
8) Drop exhausted to the bed convinced not one single person in the
entire universe has bought my book. Frank, my specter of Writhe’s imminent
failure, has by this point reappeared and offered marriage.
Ok, boys and girls, let the madness begin!!!
Until the Special Edition Blog this afternoon…
Chloe
