I do wonder how marketing people keep their sanity. Or is it that sane people don't go into marketing? Now that authors have to do their own marketing whether they have a big time publisher or are doing it themselves, we all have to be marketing people.

But, I find it very frustrating. I admit I have a high tolerance for ambiguity but I'm not so sure I want to live in a completely ambiguous world. Trying to sell books is nothing but ambiguous. I suppose I should be satisfied if they are selling but it would be nice to know what we are doing right.

We are busily promoting and are watching Amazon put in pitiful orders which are expensive to ship and at the same time the orders roll in from Baker & Taylor. Not that I am uphappy about that but I would like to know what it means and why. Does that mean we are somehow tapping into the library market which is supposedly a large part of their business? If that is true, how did we do that? It beats me.

I'd really rather put away my shotgun and get out my daisy air rifle to hit our sales target.

Speaking of sales, the second book in the Demontagne Saga, A Circle of Dreams, is out. Our reviews are really good and it is viewed as a stand alone book which is important. Come visit our website at www.annierogers.com and read the reviews and see our latest articles. See you there.