How in the world am I going to get motivated AGAIN to market this book

Phew.  I have not done a thing when it comes to getting word about this book out there.  To be honest, I assumed women would be sitting up late at their computers typing in "Louisiana divorce marriage bridesmaid love" in the search engine of Amazon.  Apparently women are not doing that.

With lackluster sales (make that no sales) and a product that is stale to me, I have to find a way to get motivated to 1) market this text and 2) write the next one.  Here is my plan of attack:

Guerrilla Marketing
- Go to law schools and post the flyer (I really think law students might find this easy to read.  I also hope they read it, find something I messed up on, and email me so I can fix it.).
- Prepare a press release (Why are these so hard???).
- Prepare order forms for retailers to order directly from me and then I drop ship it to them (How the hell do you do this?  They need to send me money up front.  Will they?).
- Just go ahead and see if a publishing house will accept the book and let them deal with this part (That is starting to sound better and better).

Writing the Next Book 
- First off, I need to do this for myself.  I get so annoyed with myself for not doing something.  In the end, my procrastination is just as much work as doing something.
- NaNoWriMo - I love this site.  I know I should simply start writing today, but there is something so pleasant about starting Nov. 1st.  It is definitive.
- Outline, outline, outline.  Outlining what I want to say rather than just writing all over the place.  Now, that is something I could start right now...

Oi vey,
Camille



 

KDP Select: What the hell was that about?

Frankly, I feel like I got a little used.  That is the nicest way to say it.  Apparently KDP Select through Amazon.com was going to be a way for my work to reach more people.  I was hoping it would generate, I don't know, a COMMENT in the comment section from a reader who actually read the book.  Nothing.  Silence.  I thought maybe going into it would get me a, gee, idk, SALE.  Neither of those things happened.  Rather, I got 5 days of people accessing my book for free, seeing that it was getting traffic, and then nothing for three months.  Amazon Prime really is taking away the fun in this self-publishing process, but what are we suppose to do?  There are little options.

Now, my book is not worthy of, "Oh my gosh, I just read this awesome piece of prose.  You have to check it out."  You may have that nugget of awesome, I don't.  I have a legal information book with a narrow audience.  Needless to say, my marketing is going to need to look beyond this resource...