As the late, great Samuel Johnson once said, “No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.” It’s all well and good writing a book, how the dickens are you going to get anybody to read it? More to the point how are you going to get them to pay for the undoubted privilege?
At this point I confess that if I was forced to live on my earnings as a writer, I would be writing this from shanty made from pallets and cardboard, situated nicely overlooking a rubbish tip. This is not the blog of somebody who is offering to show you how I made my first million. Indeed looking at my sales, it might well be worth reading this blog only to know what not to do.
Strangely enough I have tended to avoid spending money on promoting my books. This is not merely because I am…
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The biggest part of the success of a blog tour is the amazing blogs you end up in 🙂
A good tour links a lot of blogs together and introduces all sorts of readers to blogs they’d never otherwise discover :
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So true – and I’m happy to say that your post drew me to you! Thank you for featuring on my blog!
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