Let Me Digress

Romance, Romance Book, Romance Novel, Fiction, Writers, Writing, Publishing, Self Publishing That's what my wife and I do. We are a husband and wife team writing and publishing women's fiction. Get better acquainted with the fiction on www.annierogers.com. On this blog I will ramble and digress about our work, our thoughts and the adventure of publishing. We also want to hear from you so we can exchange views. We hope you find it interesting and will join us.

About Me

Name: Roger

Location: St. Michaels, Maryland, United States

Almost anything gets old. New projects keep me interested and that includes writing/publishing. I've been involved in the reform movement of the sixties,clinical psychology, specialty travel, overseas ventures, national stepfamily awareness, parenting, and marriage (twice). That's the short list. Now its women's fiction and associated publishing. That's my wife, Mala, in the picture with me. She writes under the name Annie Rogers. She'll chime in here from time to time. Come take a look at what we are doing in women's fiction at www.annierogers.com

Thursday, June 08, 2006

We expect to have the second book in the Demontagne Saga, A Circle of Dreams, on hand and ready for shipment in a matter of less than a week. We hit our publish target and getting it ready was certainly easier than A Dream Across Time which was our first book. Now everything is in place.
Our tactic to get Annie Rogers' name out there was to give a lot of books away. That is what we heard over and over and so that is what we did. My suspicion is that we pretty well saturated our market with free books. The market, of course, for a new author is not large.
Now we will see what happens. We are not going to be so ready to give away the second book and we hope more people will then buy it. And, of course, we now have a back list. The next couple of months should be very interesting from a sales standpoint. We have a lot of promotions out there, advertising and we are now an award winning author.