Plugging Myself · 2 December 2023
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If I was a real writer, I would be plugging my books at every opportunity I could. But that can get nauseating. For my readers and for me.
If you were to search the internet, you would find there is much advice to writers to plug yourself whenever and wherever you can. When you meet a person on the street, let him or her know that you wrote a book. Let your friends know that you just completed a book. Or that your book has been out for quite some time and that said friend ought to check it out. And of course, you should make sure that everybody on social media knows that your books are out there. Every tweet and every post and every blog should be about your book and how wonderful it is, and oh by the way, you should get it.
Right.
I must admit that I do not promote myself very well. Oh sure, I mention every once in a while that I am working on a book or that I completed a book or that I have a couple dozen books out there on Amazon for anybody to get. But I do not want to be one dimensional. I do not want to only be always and ever about me. That would be ludicrous. And tedious. And downright obnoxious. None of which I want to be.
But every once in a while, I feel like I need to give a plug for myself.
I should probably give said plug after I have completed and published a new book. And I probably will. Soon. That is, I should probably give a plug for my latest book which is complete. I just finished the cover and the digital copy is out on Amazon! (The print version will be out soon, if not already. It is called Charlie: My Rival, My Friend, My Hero. You should check it out. Which is my plug, by the way.) But besides that plug for my newest book (in the previous parentheses), I just want to remind all my readers (both real and imaginary) that I do have books out there. Both digital and print. And at least one or two people have actually read at least one or two of them. Or have at least bought them. Which is pretty cool.
At any rate.
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As you can tell, I still have not done a very good job plugging my books. I do not really know what to say. After all, most of my books are for kids. Teens and maybe a little younger (or older) are my target audience for most of my stuff. Which is one of the reasons I spent so much time last year about this time getting them all ready for print on demand. After all, it seems like younger audiences want those books in their hands. (Here comes the big plug.) So if you have a teen or tween or somebody near that age or maybe you are just a little curious, you should check out my books on Amazon. In fact, you can click the word Amazon in the previous sentence and go right to my Amazon author page to see what cool books I have. (Which by the way, is technically an ad, so I am giving notice of that in this parenthetical statement.)
(Whew. What was tough. I never knew that self-promotion or plugging yourself could be so difficult. Okay. Maybe I did. Which is why I do not do it very much.)
Well, there you have it. A silly blog post about what I call plugging. I hope you did not get too nauseated by such obvious self-promotion. Or with the writing itself.
© 2023 Michael T. Miyoshi
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