Regardless of how outgoing and social you are, you are not going to sell any books if no one knows about it or about you. You have got to advertise. I have been doing this relentlessly for months now. It is an on-going and never-ending endeavor. I have been doing most of this myself (at least it seems that I am doing it by myself). I have contracted with an agent to try to sell my book to a major publishing house, but this contract is only on a commission basis so they get no money unless they sell the book. It is going on three months, and I have seen no results from them. Now I hear that the book business is terribly slow in jumping on a new work... this is probably a bunch of crap. I think I just need to find the right person with whom to sleep. In the meantime, however, I am pounding the keyboard all over the Internet.

What am I doing, you might ask. Let me tell you what I have been doing to market my novel, "Out on Deep Water", which can be bought online (http://www.Novels-by-Noah.com). I have a fine web site online fully furnished with online credit card processing plus a media content center, about the author details, graphics of the book cover, plus tons of more details. Plus, I have more online content with sites on MySpace.com (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=222011017); I have created this great blog site, filling it with wonderful content detailing my adventure into writing and publishing; I have created an eBook copy of my novel and offered it online (http://www.mobipocket.com/en/eBooks/BookDetails.asp?BookID=64354&Origine=3380); I have contacted gay book clubs across the country to see if they are interested in using my novel as a topic (I would even talk to them in interviews); I have issued press releases on PRLeap.com (http://www.prleap.com/pr/101220/); I have listed my novel online Windows.Live.Expo (http://expo.live.com/ViewListing.aspx?lId=6540624); I have listed my novel on CraigsList.com... and I have been doing this relentlessly (I may have already said that...).

The benefits are starting to payoff. I have seen an increase in the number of eBooks that are selling. I think this might be because I reduced the price to match other similar books on the eBook site. As such, I recently reduced the price of the paperback copy by more than 15% and continued the 'no shipping fees in the U.S.' offer - shipping is not that much... I just need to move some books to 1.) make money and 2.) feel like this book is not for nothing.

It is already 11pm here, and I have to go to bed shortly. If you have not read my book, buy a copy - either paperback or eBook (http://www.Novels-by-Noah.com). Thanks for reading though, and I hope I was entertaining and perhaps even insightful. If you are writing or publishing or pushing a novel, good luck; and I would love to hear from you.

Good night, all. Sleep well.

Noah Reilly, author
"Out on Deep Water"
http://www.Novels-by-Noah.com