We have now entered into the month of JULY!!! We are now past the halfway point of the year, and are smack in the middle of the summer season. The temperature is rising, and so are the opportunities to make an impact.
First off...I gotta promote the latest sale that I have going on...
Smashwords is having this annual 'Summer/Winter Sale' on their store site. My books are listed on Smashwords, and I've made them all available for the sale. My titles are discounted at 75% off the regular eBook price. Quite honestly...they're actually FREE for the entire month of July. Feel free to cop a few, if not all, of my book titles! Support a brother!!! 😁😁😁😁
I will be adding my 1st book "Raise Your Brown Black Fist: The Political Shouts of an Angry Afro Latino" to Draft2Digital as an eBook. I want this book to be made available to libraries, and other outlets. It's already listed on the major eBook distro channels of Kindle, Nook, and Apple Books; but I want to be able to reach a wider audience. My publisher for it (Authorhouse) only distributes the eBook to the main eBook carriers, so I gotta do the additional legwork to get it out to other audiences.
Speaking of Draft2Digital...I'll be releasing the paperback version of "Spittin' Lyrics N Waxin' Poetic" this month through their P.O.D. arm, D2D Print. I might as well bite the bullet, and see what happens. I don't really have anything to lose by doing that, since I haven't been having any success with it solely as an eBook. At least now, all 14 of my books will available in physical paperback format. I'm still debating about printing "Fiesta Girl" through them, and delisting it from KDP. Let's just see how this one goes, and then I'll decide if I want to use them to print some of my other books...
I'm planning on discontinuing the plan to do the Black/Brown Bookstore Book Tour. I don't have the mobility to get around to some of these bookstores that I want to promote & do the signings at. I'm trying to be as economical as possible, and lugging all those books through Greyhoud or AmTrak just doesn't sound feasible. I might just try to concentrate on doing some of the local festivals to vend at, which would be much easier. Maybe if I knew some fellow local authors out here who would be interested in doing the tour as a joint venture, I'd commit to it. I don't want to say that it's hard for me to make any friends out here, but it's not very easy to find any like-minded people that think the way that I do.
That's all for now. Looking forward to keeping you guys updated on my other upcoming plans. Stay tuned!!! 😊😊😊
Uhuru sasa, y paz!!! Keep the fist raised!!!
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