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Published: Thursday, 06 February 2014 06:48
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Written by Michelle
Pre-marketing I've setup a Website, blog, Facebook and Twitter accounts. Though nothing in the marketing of the book has been initiated, cover design, logo, ect, I'm already creating my footprint for the web. Whenever your footprint begins, you begin to gather traffic. Search Engines often sandbag sites for a few months to verify they're legit before you can even begin to imagine being on the first page of Google, so the earlier you create your footprint, the more traction it begins to gather.
Everything is quite basic now. The logo, a cheep squiggle graphic I came up with. It's because the specific look is not the point at this stage, it's the traction I'm trying to gather with search engines. This basic branding will link me between all venues so that a user will know instantly all pages associated with the same book, but it's not to create the aura for the reader at this point, so I'm not going to spend any time on it.
Here we go, we are live on Twitter and Facebook
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Published: Saturday, 01 February 2014 08:48
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Written by Michelle
Good evening! The weekend has arrived and I am able to work on my novel. As a working mother, I squeeze in what time I have to work on this book, hence it has taken me nearly three years to finish writing this short novel. What joy the weekends bring; I get an hour or two or more to focus without interruption.
Do you find being a mother takes time away from yourself?
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Published: Thursday, 30 January 2014 00:00
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Written by Michelle
Today I am launching my blog for Cursed Kingdoms, Tales of Wit and Folly.
Cursed Kingdoms is a novel set to a fictitious Middle Age setting. The stories are deep, ridiculous and clever. I'm reminded of one of those 3-d art pictures from the eighties, where your squinting to get the picture to pop out, only to discover the picture was titled “Nothing There.” (I'll have a better description after I run through some marketing ideas.)
The book has reached it's final stages of development; I have given it off to my editor Gina, who I will introduce later. I'm currently working on the Marketing and Publishing aspects of the book, mainly focusing on marketing ideas until I get corrections back.
Everything is quite basic as of now, 1/30/2014, though it will be developing quite rapidly in the next few months. I may even change the name...
I'll keep you posted on whatever goodies I find in the marketing arena.
Enjoy!