I am Not a Marketer

So, I have a completed book. It is published. I have both an ebook and paperback available on Amazon. It will be available elsewhere, like Google Play and Apple and Smashwords, as soon as everything processes. I find it funny, in an odd sort of way, this publishing thing. You take a person who is creative, wrote a fiction book completely out of my imagination, and throw them in this anal business of marketing. Publishing is not like a light switch where one lists it on a site like Amazon and suddenly the internet is flooded with your book like a light in a room. It needs to be marketed. We are talking SEO and backlinking and affiliates. I don't know what these mean.

Okay, I get the basic idea of what these things are. I am not completely computer illiterate, but everything I do is creative. I can do Photoshop, Gimp, Illustrator. I'm a graphic artist and a writer, not a marketer. If I could do SEO and all this other stuff than I would start a generic drop ship company so I can write full time. Ok I would write a book and market it so well, I would never have to work again, then continue to write full time for the shear pleasure, then sell those and be sickening rich. Sickeningly rich is not my goal, not that I would turn it down, but rather comfortable enough to know that my bills are met and if my car breaks down or furnace dies I can fix/replace them.

I would like to be a bestseller. Not just for monetary reasons, so I can quit my job, fix my money pit house and be home with my kids full time and still feed and clothe them properly, but also for the pride of being successful at something, besides three wonderful sons (I only want to strangle them half the time - that makes them pretty good - right?) But also I believe in my story as something worthy of sharing. I would like to think that I have touched the lives and the hearts of many as only a truly good book can.  The way A Tree Grows in Brooklyn or The Green Earth touched me. Something when at the mention of the title, someone will say "Aaah I loved that book, I cried so hard.". While I don't like to cry to real life stuff, crying in movies or books equals success. Crying or laughing out loud, not LOLing, but for real laughing out loud.

If you are reading this, then maybe, just maybe I am figuring this stuff out :)

I am Official

Unforgotten by E.M. Vail

I am out there now. I am a published Author. Amazon is now carrying my book, Unforgotten, as an e-book. Soon, I will have a paperback version as well. Not too long from now, I will also have an audiobook version of Unforgotten. All of it is so very cool. I laugh at home, though, my kids could care less. I am no cooler today than I was yesterday. My youngest exclaimed with excitement "I will read it! Is it an outer space book?" when I said no and described the story line, he said "Nevermind, It's a chick book." My three young sons have no interest in the book. My sister is in the process of writing a sci-fi book. Her book they can't wait to read. I have anxious readers too, however. They just aren't 10 year old boys.

Now I am in search of readers that appreciate a good teenage chick book. Of course most of my adult (very adult) friends read teen books. So I guess my book is for any one of any age group that appreciates a touching story. I already had a review on Amazon.

Lorrie 

This review is from: Unforgotten (Kindle Edition)
I am an older woman. Even though I feel this book is directed toward the younger adult, I had no problem enjoying it. This story started out with great sensitivity, but with an interesting twist at the end. Richly written. I cried...laughed...and was left with a wonderful feeling throughout. Very compelling reading. I usually take my time reading, but found myself not wanting to put it down. I would highly recommend this book.