Promoting Your Ebook...Small Steps Does matter

I've promoted my novel Preaching To The Crieurs for a few weeks prior to releasing through Amazon's KDP FREE PROMOTIONS. 

Amazon KDP allows you to register your ebook EXCLUSIVELY with them for 90 days. During the 90 day period you have an option to promote your kindle book for  five free days.

The process is a bit intimidating. I've sent countless facebook posts announcing the free promotion and multiple emails sent to registered contacts about the free deal. 
I consider myself a true skeptic so if I got 1download from my free ebook promotion I'd consider it a huge success. 

Who am I really?

I've been writing in my journal for the past two decades and now I've taken writing onto a new level..big deal right?

Apparently it's a big one. Once I checked the AMAZON report 2 hours after the promotion began my book had been downloaded 100 times. 

Is 100 downloads cause for excitement?

Remember earlier when I mentioned I would be grateful for one lonely download...well I lied...100 downloads is way better.

Staying up all night sending tweets, scheduling hootsuites, and countless text messages to friend and family members to spread the word about Preaching To The Crieurs paid off! 

You've got to crawl before you walk. While I'm crawling I'll take pride in every milestone and I'm enjoying them too. Choosing to enjoy the small ones will undoubtedly prevent huge disappointments.

Now, if only I could get just 1 review....

T.D. Giddens 

Love Book Trailers

I found a book trailer on youtube recently that I absolutely fell in love with. So I got the idea to create a trailer to my novel Preaching To The Crieurs. 

I was dead set... get a trailer and get it now. 

The only problem? Where would I find a graphics/video genius. I write, not design things. 

After about an hour of doodling on the internet I decided to pay a visit to FIVERr.

Fiverr in my opinion is one of the greatest idea besides the idea to slice bread. 

Okay, so I skimmed through the hundreds of video offers and found the one just right for me.

Amongus, the seller, had over ten orders in queue and a high rank of satisfied customers.

Placed an order....which is fairly simple...and in less than five days I received a pretty neat trailer. 

I was so moved by my trailer I tipped!

You be the judge.

Here's the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOUvyvn0KWY