http://www.kindleboards.com/book/?asin=B0042P5ES2
I'm trying to be smart and use all technology available to me. Yes, that bunch of red letters and numbers up above can take you instantly into the inside of one of my books the way an ultrasound takes you into the inside of your body. There is a man, Harvey, over at the Kindleboards who spends most of his off-time devising ways to help the authors on his forum sell their books. I could spend all day chatting and reading on the Kindleboards. I've entered two contests and come in second in both of them. The first one was to write a book in 55 words or less. For a person who spent her youth writing catalogue copy for Macy's that was a snap. Try writing "Toddlers all cotton girls camisole tops in green, blue, white and pink, small, med. lge. Lambs, turtle, piggy motifs," in a one inch slot. Those catalogue entries could have been early tweets that's how economical they were. I came in second in the "55 word novel contest "and also second in the "eulogy of a character in a novel contest." My eulogy was for the Tin Man in Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz. Tin was a victim of the skyrocketing price of scrap metal. In both cases I've won small gift certificates to use at Amazon. I used the money to buy an e-book that was part of a marketing scheme of another indy author to help him run up the Amazon bestseller list.
If I had any discipline or any idea of how fast time is going and how old I am getting, I would spend my time writing my own books and winning the contest of self-esteem instead of trying to win $10 gift certificates. But here's the dirty little secret. I feel so validated when my fellow authors vote for my anonymous entries.
Next blog I might put up a sample of Best Friends. I hope you like it.
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