New site to try...

I was directed to a site I'd never heard of, before -- Book Funnel -- so set up an account and posted The Vanishing of Owen Taylor on there. There's another of Smashwords' sales promotions coming up, on it, and one of the other authors I follow on Facebook is going to put it in her newsletter, with links to that site. May as well give it a go.

Of course, people can also go to my profile page and see which books I've added to the sale and which I haven't. Some will be free. Both of the APoS volumes available will be half price. My gay erotica is $0.99, as always.

I'm realizing there are several places readers can go to for gay erotica...where it's free. They can't own it, but they get to read it. I tried one out with The Beast and it seemed to make people happy. Got some good feedback on it. But no money...and that explains why sales have gone flat.

I'm at that stage of life where I need the cash more than anything. And the Universe seems bent on me not having it while making damn sure I have to ladle it out.

I've spent close to $5000 trying to get A Place of Safety-Derry and New World For Old some traction in sales, to minimal good. Haven't even made back 10% of that. Same thing happened with David Martin. That was more than $3000 when I worked it up...half of which was for a professional illustrator...and another bust.

It's just, I can't afford a publicist on top of it. So guess I'm a total fuckup.