promotional efforts

I have been dreadfully absent for the last week. I took a little stay at home vacation from the internet and writing to indulge in a video game I’ve been waiting for what felt an entire lifetime to play. It was incredibly inspiration and my mind is abuzz with so many plots and plans.

Now I have so many things that need to be done, I have no idea how I will find time to do them all. It’s kind of thrilling when that happens, though, right? Inspirations knocking at the door, all the little voices clamoring to be heard and done justice on the page. I also have a ton of editing to do, but I’m easing my way back into it all, and while it’s always a dread leaving a vacation atmosphere, even an imaginary one, it’s good to be back to work.

I wanted to share another Teaser Tuesday with you all. I think this one is, by far, my favorite of them all to date.

If you’re interested, you can pre-order your copy of Siren from Amazon, or grab a signed paperback from my site. If you do pick one up, I’m holding a weekly drawing, which you can find out more about over on my site.

I mentioned in my last post that despite being up to my eyelids in NaNoWriMo word count, I am also in the midst of promoting my upcoming urban fantasy book, Siren, which is set to release on January 5, 2015. It’s currently available for pre-order on Amazon, so I’ve been working some new strategies for promotion to try and reach a wider audience before it actually goes live.

What I’m doing is certainly nothing new. A lot of authors I know, both indie and traditionally published, release little images like this, but promotion is often a huge pain, so maybe we don’t always put as much effort into it as we should.

I was really proud of how this turned out, and thought I’d share it with all of you.

Every Tuesday until January, I’m going to be releasing a new teaser image with a little snippet from the book on my website, my Facebook author page and a few other social media haunts I frequent from time to time. Here’s the first one.

I’d love to hear what you think! I’d also be delighted if you took a minute to share a few of your own personal promotion strategies in the comment section below!