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Promotion Motion, What's Your Notion?

Yee-haw, it's three minutes after midnight and the event I’ve long anticipated, my inaugural e-book launch for THE WOODSMAN on the Ellora’s Cave website, is now officially stuff of memorable memories. I can finally wind down all the promotional heavy-lifting I began spinning out about 19.3 seconds after receiving the acceptance letter from EC on New Year’s Day of this year. Or can I? After all, here I am still blogging about it.

For me, the past four months and two days have been quite an education in the business of book promotion. You think your book is done when you type “The End.” You may as well type, “Now it’s time to query, query, contest, contest, contest, revise four times, contest, sell, pause for a cartwheel, execute contract, do the edits, then promote and cross-promote it with a professionally designed yet surprisingly affordable website by Austin DesignWorks that’s facsimiled onto several, popular social networking sites, after creating content for them such as the obligatory blog, an obsequious book trailer (with Director’s Cut on You Tube!), and, finally, a flurry of web joining, “friending,” blogging, and e-posting.”

Now all I have to do is complete another book and do the whole “The End” process again. Then rinse and repeat until retirement. But first, I think I’ll go see what the husband and the cat have been up to since New Year’s…

Oh, and by the by, I'm having a contest where one of my readers can win a kewl Amazon Kindle upon which to read THE WOODSMAN! Please check my professionally designed yet surprisingly affordable website by Austin DesignWorks for contest details, and Belle’s Obligatory Blog where I’ll be posting excerpts from my “Diary of a First Sale!”

Thanks for your support, especially from all the Kittens and my wonderful crit buddy, Vivienne Westlake, who turned me on to Ellora’s Cave in the first place just a little over a year ago. THE WOODSMAN is for you, Viv!

And I'd love to know, from writers and readers alike, what's the best book promotion you ever heard of?

XO,
Belle Scarlett
"Passion is the spice of love."
THE WOODSMAN now available at www.ellorascave.com

Check for Details on Belle's Amazon Kindle Contest at www.bellescarlett.com
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See the "Director’s Cut" of THE WOODSMAN trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eorrLMFlAsY
Rated M for Mmmmmmm (Mature!)

How was everyone's weekend?

How was everyone's weekend? Anything interesting happen?

Let's see, in my world....nope, not much going on. Handed in judging scores for contest. I am also getting an entry together to enter a contest. I don't normally do contests, but I thought, why not? Maybe I will get that much needed pat on the head for a job well done. Hey, I finaled in the BEACON last year with Scorpion King, and then a few months later it was chosen for one of the Pocket anthologies. Not too shabby, though I will say the Pocket thing was a total surprise. I mean, I tortured myself writing Scorpion King. I bet Kelli can remember that.

What am I working on right now? Well, a few things. I am shifting my focus from erotic romance to more mainstream romance. I am a little worn out writing erotic. Maybe later I will write some more, but at the moment, I am letting my heart lead the way. I have a contemporary romance in the works I hope to sell to NY.

Good news for the month is my first paperback from EC, Pirate's Mistress, is about to come out. I am very excited about that. VERY EXCITED. I've waited (impatiently) for my own EC paperback, and it will be here soon.