Small victories

I didn’t post anything last week, just so much going on that I didn’t get the chance to write all that much, so there wasn’t much chance to write here.

That doesn’t mean there wasn’t anything going on, there was, and it was a lot, or at least for me, it was a lot.

Remember a few weeks ago I told you about when Amazon and I had a small disagreement, well. they must have had a rethink, and behold, they created the series page that I asked for!

Take a look at the series. By the way, browsing the first couple of chapters is free!

To me, it’s a small victory, it’s a small piece of the building blocks that let people know that I’m here, and I’m writing.

There are those of us who go for the principle of writing as much good stuff as we can and do very little in the way of marketing the stuff we do write in the hope that the sheer volume of written material will give us the sales, it might! but it also might not.

I’ve gone (so far) with trying to list on as many ‘free sites’ as I possibly can, so far I’ve got onto about four, and the books can be found there, but not so many sales, or at least not the millions I hoped for, but I’ve made some pretty good friends along the way.

Actually, that’s one of the great things about Facebook, it’s got some pretty awesome groups on there where people are willing to ‘pool their knowledge’ and help each other on the way.

I mean, let’s face reality here,  a self-published author just doesn’t have the time or the finances to chase down every possible lead or idea, so why re-invent the wheel?

It was someone in a Facebook group who suggested to me to ask Amazon to set up the series page, I’d never even thought they could. When I asked them how, they explained that as long as I gave Amazon the ISBN or ASIN numbers that I wanted linking, also as long as there was something identifying them as part of a series on both the cover and inside the book, then there shouldn’t be a problem. So I did and after some reluctance, they obliged me and created the series.

On a slightly different note, this week I got to drive a dilapidated Chinese made bus that has done over a million kilometres (it’s less than 10 years old, note I didn’t say ‘Old’ and yes, that’s about 700,000 miles) and after that I’m going to say “If it’s got four wheels, I can drive it!!” So yes, you can do anything if you really want to, you just may not do it as well as you want to!

To me, both of these were small victories.