Buy my book! It's easy, just click on the cover that is
situated to the right. And if you click on the cover of The Amazing Morse, it’s
only 99 cents for the Kindle version.
Sorry, I’m not very good at marketing. I’m supposed to be
engaging my audience, I’m supposed to talk about whatever’s hot at the moment.
But really, all the work I do on Facebook, Blogger, about.me, etc. is just a
complicated way to get you to buy my book. So do us both a favor and just buy
it now.
It really is a good book you know. I put all my efforts into
my actual writing rather than in marketing or blogging. At least take a look at
it—Amazon will let you read a bit of it for free—and tell me what you think.
I’m not looking to get rich, but I dream of being able to
write for a living. As it stands now, I work full-time in a factory. You may
ask yourself what a factory worker knows about writing novels, but therein lies
the appeal. It’s a classic Rocky Balboa or Susan Boyle story, the story of a
person who fought against all odds to achieve a dream. This is even more
unlikely, it’s like Susan Boyle fighting for the heavyweight championship of
the world.
Like I said, I’m not very good at the marketing side of
things. When I was in college, I started wondering what I was going to do with
the English degree I was working on. I thought advertising was a natural fit,
as it involved putting together convincing arguments. I even went so far as to
do an internship with a television production company. It was there I learned
such terms as “product placement” and “soft sell”. I really thought I could be
good at that sort of thing. There was only one problem; it was evil. I didn’t
want to use my hard-earned powers of persuasion to manipulate people’s minds
and emotions, I wanted to show them the truth to the best of my ability. It was
little different in my experiences with journalism. Again, it was advertisers
before integrity. So I left the writing business for a time and found myself an
honest job. But the 21st Century has offered opportunities to the
independents in the form of self-publishing. I at last have a chance to put
forth something I truly believe in. Give it a look. You have my word that I
respect what I do too much to give you anything that would not be good for you.
And when you someday see my book in someone else’s hands, you can tell that
person how much you helped that writer get his break. Thanks.
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