My automotive posts get hundreds of hits a day, and I answer e-mail questions along with the resulting blog comments. I put a link for buying my novel COLD BLOODED in the comments section of each one. The idea was triggered by e-mails from grateful people appreciative of the automotive repair blog posts who suggested I put up a donation button. I figured putting the link for the novel would be a better way of letting people say thank you and get something in return. I received an e-mail with my first review of COLD BLOODED:
“Enjoyed your blog- it helped with my son's Park Avenue. To thank you I bought Cold Blooded and read it on my Kindle. It was great!- You're a very good writer! (And under cover of being a mechanic, probably a very good assassin as well!)
It made my day. Although I’m not an undercover assassin, it never hurts to get some feedback on my undercover writing. :)
4 comments:
Well that's pretty cool. Congrats. Ingenious marketing as well!
Thanks, Charles. We have to get our stuff out there in every inoffensive way we can think of. :)
Congratulations, Bernard, great feedback!!
Feels fabulous, doesn't it? :)
Raine, the funny part is I can't figure out if I'm more excited about someone who doesn't think my writing sucks, or the fact some form of marketing I came up with actually worked. :)
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