After Infused was Published

Once Infused was available for sale, my tasks were to make sure that people knew it was available and to get as many reviews posted as I could. I posted information about my book and put links to it on Amazon and Barnes and Noble on Facebook to let my friends know about it. I also put up a post asking those friends that had read it to post reviews. I later followed up with an e-mail out to the friends that had read it asking them to put up a review.

Since the Amazon author page was setup to be able to read a feed from a blog, I started writing this blog hoping that it would provide some more insight into myself and the book for anyone that happened across the listing. I don’t know how many people have read the entries here, but it has at least provided me with a chance to get some thoughts and experiences documented.

After a couple of weeks, I only had one review that had been posted; it was from my best friend Monique. I then posted another request to my friends on Facebook – this time saying that they can just put a comment instead of a review if they like. After this request (and mentioning a couple of friends in my blog posts), I ended up with a couple more review postings. I was a bit surprised that it was so difficult to get people to post reviews, especially since a number of my friends are theatre people and are pretty outgoing and expressive.

With no advertising helping to get visibility for my book, it’s up to me and word of mouth for the most part. However, mentioning it to people at my day job and bringing it up in conversations at parties can only get me so far.

In an attempt to make more people aware of my book, I started a post on my high school’s FaceBook page asking for information about all the different books that had been written by alumni (I knew of a couple other than mine). Information was posted about several other alumni authors, and a representative from the school said that they were working on setting up an alumni author shelf in the school library; it would be cool to have my book available at my alma mater.

I’ve given a few paperback copies of my book to friends, and I’ve joked about leaving some copies at various places in hopes that people would pick them up and read them, but really, I’m just not sure how to get more people interested in reading Infused.