Onward and upward, the promotion continues. Actually, it feels more like trudging through mud. I want to clean up my mailing list. The only thing stopping me is ignorance. I can’t figure out how to put the “unsubscribe” feature into the email I want to send. That’s been hanging me up for the last few days and it’s frustrating. My technology expert has been out of commission for a day or two and unable to walk me through the process. Maybe today.
In the meantime, I’ve been contacting reviewers of cozy mysteries. I think I mentioned in yesterday’s post that I would be using archives. And that’s what I did. I searched the SPAWN Market Update archives for directories of reviewers and then began the tedious process of checking them out—who reviews mysteries? Cozy mysteries? Novels with animals in them? Kindle books? Self-published book? I found plenty of listings to keep me busy for the bulk of the weekend.
One needs a break from work like this, so occasionally I shifted gears and visited cozy mystery authors’ websites and their Amazon pages to discover who is reviewing their books (I’ll contact those reviewers) and what promotional activities they’re pursuing. Again, this is tedious, time-consuming work, but it can also be highly enlightening.
I found directories of blog book sites. Many of these bloggers review books and interview authors. And quite a few of them are dedicated to novels and novelists—some specializing and some more open to many genres.
Promoting a novel has been an interesting process so far and I can see that it will continue to be so. I have enough leads already to keep me busy for weeks. And the Amazon ranking is inspiring. My nonfiction books never got such high rankings as this brand new novel has had and it’s only a week old. If you want to see what I’m so excited about, go to http://amzn.to/14OCk0W
It’s Catnapped: A Klepto Cat Mystery. It’s a cozy mystery that features Rags, a kleptomaniac cat who has a paw in solving the mystery at hand. His supporting cast includes Savannah Jordan who, with Rags, comes to Hammond, a small town in Northern California to help her aunt out after she broke her foot under possibly suspicious circumstances. When she arrives, she discovers that neighborhood cats are going missing and her aunt is being threatened. Margaret Forster is the head of the Hammond Cat Alliance and she gets her niece involved in some not quite legal activities in pursuit of the catnappers. Things heat up when the two women are kidnapped at knife point. Rags holds the clue to who took them and where they are only he isn’t talking. Other cast members include Charlotte, an adorable teen with Downs and a huge heart for cats and for what’s right and wrong; Max runs a cat rescue facility next door to Margaret’s old ranch house. Savannah suspects that the lovely underwear Rags pulled out of her aunt’s drawer on their first morning there is worn for Max’s pleasure. Dr. Michael Ivey is the local veterinarian—he might be considered the Dr. McDreamy of vets and this fact doesn’t go unnoticed by Savannah. Layla, the faux golden Persian and Sally, the precious family pet who goes missing under most unusual circumstances will worm their way into even the most hardened hearts. Download your copy of Catnapped now. It’s on Kindle only. Don’t have a Kindle? Download the Kindle program on your iPad, iPhone, computer, Android or other device.
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