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tiecladartist · 1 year ago

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I've promo'd my book's tumblr account on like 4 different social medias (including tumblr itself through this account).

I've followed topic-related blogs big and small, and interacted with/reblogged their content.

I've used all manner of applicable tags both proper and conversational (ie talking through tags to make it less rigid and because it's the norm on here)

I've liked, reblogged, posted, changed the profile pic, the whole shebang.

Only thing I haven't done is directly message/ask folks requesting follows because that just doesn't feel right. And yet the book blog is completely dead in the water. I know that content-wise Tumblr users would be the most likely to enjoy the series, so obviously I'm sad about this, but I genuinely don't know what I'm doing wrong at this point 😓

If you like fantasy books; stories about angels, demons, and cool magic; casts with lgbt characters (the main characters are Aro/Ace and Pan, and many other characters are lgbt too); or even just wanna follow out of pity/sympathy, the blog is @divinetrialsseries

Don't know what else I could do to get it off the ground now, so all I can do is get down on my knees and beg. Pride is a price I'll pay to get this story the attention I dearly hope it deserves.

#writing #authors #author #books of tumblr #fantasy book #fantasy books #new author #self published #Marketing this book has been an absolute nightmare #its not that its difficult to market content-wise #its just that marketing on algorithmic social media is like log-runing and i need to stand still long enough to work on the sequel #balancing that has been hard enough already #i was hoping the site I've been using for a decade would be the easy one to use but clearly i was wrong #Honestly im frustrated and needed to rant about it #because even knowing this would be the hard part i didnt realize how discouraging it would be to see my dream drown like this #not just on tumblr but in general #I'm writing for me but it still hurts to bare your heart and have people walk right by #ive promo'd on instagram and facebook too with a liiiiittle more success #but sales for the digital AND physical copies have fully stagnated #feels like the only people that bought it are friends and families more interested in supporting me than the story #which i appreciate but definitely hurts the writing ego a little

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