I’ve never tried marketing in any serious way, so this will be new. On July 01, I and many other Jane Austen Fan Fiction writers will each be offering a free ebook. If you’ve ever wanted to read Persuade Me Again but hesitated, now’s you chance to pick it up gratis!
The website to find new authors and favorites is: jaffbonanza.com
Try some new genres and styles. It’s summertime, live a little!!
Take care–SK
Here in WideSpot we are in the midst of farms. Lots of corn and soy. Some sorghum. These crops produce a meteorological condition known as “corn sweat.”
WideSpot is my Kansas hometown. It’s vaguely in the northwest quarter of the state. I try to work every day, but the hot weather has knee-capped me and I have struggled to just keep the house in a sort of hygienic manner. My other excuse is that I am writing romance and that’s hard to do when every minute of the day you’re sticky.
This is a lovely summer illustration. However, Rick and Anne are in the Pacific Northwest, Oregon to be exact. They have no corn sweat. not even pine sweat.
There is hope. Next week the humidity that is part of our current weather front will be carrying approximately half of the humidity.
I’ll be back at editing then. I make no guarantees for the rest of August.
Take care–SK
!UPDATE!
I laid around and played around too long. The end has to be rewritten completely. Working on that!
Something new coming at the end of July. I’ve decided to dig out the bell-bottoms and go back to the good old days. Anne and Rick (Frederick) are now inhabiting Oregon in 1976. We’ll see how it all works out.
I think there’s a series in this one!
Take care–Sk
to being a Boomer. When did that happen? In the 90s, I, along with two other intrepid writers learned HTML, created web pages by the digital ton, and learned how to navigate various chat platforms when they were still pretty new. Now I am struggling to figure out WordPress. Again.
Is it time to go back to paper and ink?
Maybe so. For me at least.
Oh well, back to the digital grind.
Take care–Susan Kaye
Here in WideSpot we are in the midst of farms. Lots of corn and soy. Some sorghum. These crops produce a meteorological condition known as “corn sweat.” WideSpot is my Kansas hometown. It’s vaguely in the northwest quarter of the state. I try to work every day, but the hot weather has knee-capped me and…
!UPDATE! I laid around and played around too long. The end has to be rewritten completely. Working on that! Something new coming at the end of July. I’ve decided to dig out the bell-bottoms and go back to the good old days. Anne and Rick (Frederick) are now inhabiting Oregon in 1976. We’ll see how…
I’ve never tried marketing in any serious way, so this will be new. On July 01, I and many other Jane Austen Fan Fiction writers will each be offering a free ebook. If you’ve ever wanted to read Persuade Me Again but hesitated, now’s you chance to pick it up gratis! The website to find…
The hint: No one.
Social media is influencing our vocabularies more than anything else. The latest phrase I’ve noticed “Who asked for this?” This is usually said when the person is displeased with a new franchise movie, food, or kitchen design. In this case, it will have to do with a book.
Who asked for Persuade Me Again? Nobody.
I just hit ‘PLAY’ Persuade Me Again, a variation of the Jane Austen novel, Persuasion. I’m doing all the pillow fluffing my good friend, Laura Hile,** recommends. I’m dragging pull quotes from various around the web, making graphics, and all the other things that Industrious Indies should do to get the attention of possible readers.
And what is painfully apparent to any indie author is that no one is asked for you to write your book. I have heard that there were three million books published to Amazon in 2024. Another figure was that 11,000 books a day are published on the same platform.
I suppose the real question for me isn’t who asked for Persuade Me, but what makes me think anyone cares?
No one cares about this book except me. Well, my friends care because they have a lot of time invested in listening to me yap about it. Also, as dear friends they want me to be happy. And prosperous. None of them really wants the guilt that comes when you let a friend live on the streets of Widespot Kansas, panhandling for pennies a day.
Anyhow, Persuade Me Again is up and available on Amazon in paperback and on Kindle unlimited.
**Laura Hile is a dear friend who is now writing full-time. She opened up shop here on Substack, so give her a look Laura Hile . Every Friday she’s posting-as-she-writes her coming novel, Elizabeth by Any Other Name. You’ll enjoy it, I’m sure.
Have a happy Monday.
Take care—Sue
Susan Kaye, writer 