As you may have noticed, it’s been all-change again here at caronallanfiction.com. I’ve decided to go back to doing what I know works for me, instead of the hard-sell approach so many authors are advocating at the moment. I’m not really a hard-selling kind of gal, and I’m just going to say, so long as people read books, it doesn’t really matter whose books they read!
I was rather uncomfortable with the whole pushy ‘sign-up and get a free book’ thing. I give away lots of books anyway, and my site contains quite a lot of free material: fiction, life writing, sneak peeks, blog posts and author interviews so hopefully there’s plenty of interesting stuff that won’t cost readers the earth. What else would you like to see on the blog?
In other news, as you may know, my novella Scotch Mist is due out on 30 April. It’s a Dottie Manderson mystery – not a full-blown novel – but just a small story to keep things ticking over until the next novel The Last Perfect Summer of Richard Dawlish is released in the autumn/winter of this year. I felt like I needed to bridge a little gap for the reader to explain how things went from a to b. You’ll see what I mean! 🙂 If you haven’t already seen it, here’s a sneak peek of chapter one, just click on Scotch Mist.
Wishing you all a great Easter, don’t eat too many eggs, and as Bill and Ted said, let’s be excellent to each other. Or should that be eggsellent?
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and a Happy Easter to you and yours too. The sneak peek of Scotch Mist is torture – need the rest now – please
That does not sound quite right – I mean to say it is torturous waiting for the rest of it 🙂 as it is so enthralling and impatient to read it ALL
🙂 it’s ok, I think I get it… xx
This really cheered.me up…it’s exactly how I feel,Caron.Though I must try harder with my website!
Oh Myra, as you know, there’s always just so much to do… and then there’s fitting in time to write…
I think you do the advice for writers stuff really well. The hard-sell thing is rubbish, isn’t it? We writers are often naturally quiet. Standing up and yelling ‘buy my bleedin’ book’ isn’t what we want to do! Happy Easter too and good luck with the novella.