So I was reading this post on the BooksGoSocial Writers Blog, and it made a suggestion that should have been blatantly obvious, but which I have managed to miss in nearly ten years of blogging:
Want to use your blog to promote your writing career? Then blog about your books!
This should not have been as much of a revelation as it was.
I’ve posted about my work before – mostly the odd excerpt or giveaway notification – but I’ve mostly been pretty shy. I think I had the idea that I needed to draw people in and entertain them with other material, then give tantalizing glimpses of the fiction. Kinda like ads and previews in a magazine.
Well, there will certainly still be other material. I’m not going to stop being a movie buff or having Thoughts after all. And a great deal of material still needs to be imported from my old blog. But in the days to come, you’ll see a lot more about my fiction and its inspirations. Hope you find it as moving as I do.