I have a counter at my Cafe Press shop, it tells me how many returning/unique visitors visit. But the prob with putting it on LJ I think would be it might only count visitors to your profile page, not your journal entries, so that wouldn't help. There's a lot at Cafe Press on keywords, being found, SOE (Search Engine Optimisation) but if you Google Search Engine Optimisation you might find some stuff.
Options would be posting in as many places as you can: Twitter, Dreamwidth, Myspace, Facebook, Livejournal, etc. mentioning Fireborn. That does two things: Gets your book out to potential audiences (but you do need to have some different friends at each, not just the same people in all) and it also gets the name of the book to search engines (see above about SOE, you do need to sign up/put your book in them to start).
I had a thought yesterday. When you finish Fireborn, what about making a *physical* book. You can put the special "subscriber" info into it to make it more appealing and sell it somewhere like Cafe Press or Lulu, link to it here and/or Twitter, etc. Cafe Press will pay by check, Lulu I think pays by Paypal. The info on books on CP isn't as obvious as some of the other items so here's the link: Cafe Press Book help. I use CP for my photo items, have used it about a year. I like their other items well enough and haven't had too many problems with them (the rare issue with quality, but that's a given with Print On Demand websites & they were good about rectifying it). They don't do colour books or I would have used them instead of Blurb for mine.
It's not ideal but it would give you something for now, until you can find a publisher. I think Lulu lets you buy ISBN codes so you can also market your books to small bookstores in your home town or sell them on Amazon and stuff (they don't let you buy ISBNs for photobooks since they don't allow text in photobooks).
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Date: 2009-09-12 04:26 am (UTC)Options would be posting in as many places as you can: Twitter, Dreamwidth, Myspace, Facebook, Livejournal, etc. mentioning Fireborn. That does two things: Gets your book out to potential audiences (but you do need to have some different friends at each, not just the same people in all) and it also gets the name of the book to search engines (see above about SOE, you do need to sign up/put your book in them to start).
I had a thought yesterday. When you finish Fireborn, what about making a *physical* book. You can put the special "subscriber" info into it to make it more appealing and sell it somewhere like Cafe Press or Lulu, link to it here and/or Twitter, etc. Cafe Press will pay by check, Lulu I think pays by Paypal. The info on books on CP isn't as obvious as some of the other items so here's the link: Cafe Press Book help. I use CP for my photo items, have used it about a year. I like their other items well enough and haven't had too many problems with them (the rare issue with quality, but that's a given with Print On Demand websites & they were good about rectifying it). They don't do colour books or I would have used them instead of Blurb for mine.
It's not ideal but it would give you something for now, until you can find a publisher. I think Lulu lets you buy ISBN codes so you can also market your books to small bookstores in your home town or sell them on Amazon and stuff (they don't let you buy ISBNs for photobooks since they don't allow text in photobooks).
Just some brain storming....