Am I stupid?

I tried out a couple of things on this cover, using my own Photoshop abilities, and I kind of like this. Keep the street scene, my name as it is, and the log-line under the barbed wire...but I think the lettering of the title should be outlined, to emphasize it. Then the barbed wire can wrap around the book and continue over all of them, really. That way I connect them.

I spent the rest of today trying to set up a site on WordPress that I can use to post links to buy my books, using their tutorials and explanations...and the best I could achieve was this. It looks really amateurish, but I could not get the images to let me embed a link to the sales sites in them, at all. And I do not like having the full address below them as the link because it looks clumsy.

WordPress offers a service where they'll build your site for $500, but may require I upgrade to a higher level of service to do it. Gotta think about that.

I'd let this just go by the wayside, but everything I read regarding selling my work has a website as being one of the most important aspects. And I don't have one. Nor have I really done as much as I could to get my mainstream books noticed, before now.

My gay erotica I can garner interest by posting those links on Tumblr and BDSMLR. I also got some sold off GayDemon. But nothing works on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.

Granted, my writing does not bring in huge amounts of money; just enough to justify continuing it. But I was having fun with it.

I wonder if that's part of the reason for my malaise? I'm not really enjoying myself, anymore. It's become like a job.