weekly writing update

This week’s writing update: Have had an exhausting week and have been battling with fatigue. This week was hoping to do some writing, but no, it’s ending up being a week of promotion.
 
June is my birthday month so I decided to do a big promotion push for all my books and will be discounting my whole catalogue to 0.99 cents. So, things I have been doing for this:

• Creating promo assets and scheduling posts to run during the price reduction time.
• Booking email promotions with Written Media. These email promotion sites have thousands of readers who receive a weekly email with deals in genres they’re interested in and are an opportunity for authors to boost their sales.
• BookBub is a very robust promotion platform for authors and while the price of promotion is expensive, usually authors get sales to cover their expenditure. So, I applied for a BookBub featured deal, and submitted all six of my audiobooks for their Chip audiobook deal.
• Applied for other promotional opportunities with retailers Kobo and Barnes and Noble. They both provide internal promotional opportunities to their authors, so I went through and applied for every deal that my books are eligible for.
• Posted on Facebook groups to promote the romance anthology that I’m a part of.

 
Edited and approved another article for ABC Education, and of course pitched another idea. I still have an article to write for The Age that I haven’t been able to focus on, so this weekend.
 
I’ve got a gig as judge @insightpublications in the 2024 Insight Creative Writing competition for the year 8 year level with So excited about reading writing from young writers.