As you may know...

[becka_sutton]

...the first arc of The Dragon Wars Saga is now out in paperback and ebook formats. You can read more about what formats are available and where you can buy them here at my site. If you're not familiar with my web fiction serial you can read reviews at the web fiction guide - most readers like and even the one who didn't wasn't entirely negative (but ignore the blurb at WFG - I have a better one now and I need to get it updated).

This is all very nice but now I need to make people who've never heard of my serial aware of the book's existence, preferably without it costing me an arm and a leg.

This is not my forte, .

Things that are commonly recommended include submitting to book review sites and doing a blog tour - both are good ideas but terrifying to me - I'm painfully shy and have no idea how to pitch myself to strangers. I have found this useful list of indie reviewers but that doesn't solve the not knowing how to approach them problem. Still, like using the phone at work (I have a phone phobia) it has to be done. Any tips would be gratefully received.

And anyway both of those are very in the box thinking and I think I need to think outside the box. Unfortunately I'm drawing a blank, so I thought I'd throw this out there in the hope people would join in.

(Ack, stilted nervous post is stilted and nervous.)

Comments

[clare_dragonfly]

I know you're on Goodreads--are you a member of any genre-appropriate groups that allow self-promotion (most of them seem to)? I often investigate books that are promoted in my Goodreads groups as long as the authors are polite and follow the rules.

ETA: It looks like some of the links on your page are screwed up--the Amazon US link goes to Lulu, and when I hovered over the other links some of them had your site's URL stuck to the front. That might be an issue with quotation marks or something like that.

[anke]

Links with the url of the site they're on stuck in front happen when one forgets to include the "http://" at the front. (Happened to me with ALL external links on my first website, because I didn't know about it. XD )

[becka_sutton]

Thanks. :-) The Goodreads thing is a good idea. I'll have to look into that.

I've corrected the Amazon link - no idea what happened there. Which links have the site url stuck in front? I hovered but couldn't see any?

[clare_dragonfly]

The last two Amazon links--Amazon.es and Amazon.fr. Clicking on them links to a "page not found" on your site.

[becka_sutton]

Thanks! Fixed. :-)

[anke]

Reviewers accepting submissions tend to have rules or guidelines on how to submit, so, pick a reviewer, read their guidelines and follow them, lather, rinse, repeat? ;)

http://adarnasf.com/submit-a-book/ for example looks to me like they don't even want a pitch.

[becka_sutton]

Thanks.

Yeah, I know that's what I've got to do, but gah! Bullet biting.