Chapter 19
My next contact with Authorhouse was with a guy in the marketing department.
They have a full line of services to help you promote your book --- for a fee, of course, --- a really hefty fee!
The guy I talked to was really helpful, but his job was to sell me more stuff. He said he would send me an email outlining some of the marketing programs that were available. The email came and I looked at the packages ---YIKES!
One program was a "social media" package. For a mere $799.00, they would create pages for me and 'Lady Justice' on a whole slew of media sites and create a 'blog' that I could use to drive traffic to my website where, hopefully, people would click on "order book".
At age 66, while I am quite competent with the computer and the Internet, I've never cared about any of the social interactive sites.
Never needed to.
I've never Tweeted or blogged or any of that stuff, and now my publisher is saying I should do it if I want people to know about my book, or, they can do it for me for a measly $799.00.
As I perused the sites they would set up, it occurred to me that all of them were free. Why pay them the big bucks to do something I am perfectly capable of doing myself?
So I began.
Three days later, I had accounts on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Booktour, Classmates, Shelfari, Goodreads, LibraryThing, Yahoo, Google, LinkedIn, WeRead, Gather, Amazon, Bebo, Wordpress, AuthorsDen, MyLife and WritersNet.
WHEW!
No wonder they charge $799.00. It's a heck of a lot of work to set up a complete profile with photos and links to your website.
But I did it and it didn't cost me a dime!
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