Promoting Books: An Experiment And A Result

This week I tried out a paid for promotion just to see if it works, I used Bknights through Fiverr as they seem to have a good reputation. I got them to promote Second Time Lucky, my murder mystery novelette (although I have been calling it a ‘novella’ it is apparently too short). As this […]

Facebook, New Work and Reviews – An Update On Many Things

Facebook promotions. Ok, so I posted my advert for all three books on Facebook on Sunday morning. Posted it in 60 different Facebook groups, all of them dedicated to Kindles, books, authors and so on. The end result of all that posting? Nothing, nada, zilch, zero, not a dickie-bird. So after multiple postings to all […]

Changes, Part Two: Blurbs

Ok, so here are the new blurbs for the books. This time I didn’t post the new ones to Kboards, I need to rebuild my confidence before asking for any help from there again! Second Time Lucky? By C. T. Brown My girlfiend dead, murdered, lying in the gutter at my feet. Police could be […]

Changes, Part One: New Covers.

I recently posted the covers for my works up on the Kboards in their Writers Cafe section, hoping to get some constructive criticism about improving them. Well, I definitely got the criticism! Some of their points were valid, although it might have been nice if someone had managed to say something slightly positive, so I […]

Download Figures

So, I had a rough estimate in my head of total numbers of downloads of my books so far – around the 400 mark or slightly below. Then I realised I hadn’t done the essential data monkey task – create a spreadsheet! Formulas, conditional formatting, I could even try and work in a pivot table. […]

Flickr Update.

I have done a massive update to my flickr account, take a look at pictures from Nottingham, around the London Excel and from Lourdes in France! http://www.flickr.com/archerctb/

Authors, Self-Publishing and Money.

Money. A dirty word in some circles and the elephant in the room whenever there is a discussion about self-publishing. So let us start with a question, are you writing purely to earn money? If the answer is ‘yes’ then forget self-publishing, in fact forget most forms of fiction altogether. Go out and research what […]

World War One and My Family.

Frederick William Clements (Lance Corporal), died in the trenches at Ypres aged 21. Alfred John Clements (Boy First Class), died in the naval battle of Coronel aged 16. George Albert Clements (Private), died at Gallipoli approx age 16. Edward Henry Clements and John Charles Clements, both also died in service but we don’t know where. […]

Photography Decision: Digital or Film?

Photography, not something I have blogged about for a while but something I have been doing even if I haven’t got around to updating my flickr account (http:\\www.flickr.com/archerctb/) for a while. I have plenty to put up there but I just haven’t had the time recently. At the moment I am questioning where to go […]

Marketing and Promotion

Well my three day experiment making Chasing The Future free resulted in 31 downloads and these have so far led to exactly no sales whatsoever. I’m not sure if the ‘no sales’ part is due to the theory that free giveaways drive sales being wrong or just just that we’re talking about such low numbers […]