I'm happy to have Seumas Gallacher with me today. Here's what he has to see on his new book, Self-Publishing Steps to Successful Sales
…what’s a bumbling old f*rt like me doing in a business like
this?...
…I won’t claim that I went to school with Methuselah, but I
can remember back when televisions had no remote controls, and programme colour
options were black and white, or white and black… the whole mystery of
computers passed me by in an unintelligible blur… the advent of the social
networks crept up and never entered my consciousness… until five years ago… the
Amazon Apocalypse burst on the scene and invaded what little grey cells were
left in my brain, along with the literary chemical agents provocateur, Twitter,
Facebook, LinkedIn, Goodreads, Google+, et al… I escaped from a
forty-something-years engagement as a banker (SSShhh!)/corporate
trouble-shooter/turnaround ‘expert’… and became… a writer… note, not an aspiring
writer… a writer… in the firm belief that you’re in 0% or100% , with
nothing permitted in between… I bought my first-ever laptop to start tapping
out the first book… after spending a week figuring out how to switch it on, I
was up and running… I chose crime thrillers as the genre poison of choice, and
that has developed into the Jack Calder series, the cover pages look like this:
Amazon links:
Savage
Payback : http://bookShow.me/B00G00GZEO
Vengeance
Wears Black : http://bookShow.me/B008H45KJC
The
Violin Man's Legacy: http://bookShow.me/B005D7JNCQ
…so far the Quill-Scrapers Gods have smiled benignly on my
efforts , with more than 75,000 sales/downloads to date… which brings me on
neatly to the latest indulgence… I’ve become a bit of a darling of the
Self-Publishing fraternity/sorority, sharing with other authors, newbies and
established names, how it worked for me… with their persuasion, I’ve just
launched on Kindle
‘Self-Publishing Steps To Successful Sales’
Amazon Link: http://bookShow.me/B00JBL6K80
…please feel free to come and share with me your own
experiences in this wonderful scribblers merry-go-roundabout:
Blog : seumasgallacher.com
Twitter : @seumasgallacher
Email : seumasgallacher@yahoo.com
Bio for SEUMAS GALLACHER
Seumas Gallacher was born in Clydeside, Govan in Glasgow and
spent his formative teens in the idyllic Scottish Hebridean island of Mull. His
career as a banker took him from Scotland to London for ten years and thence on
a further twenty-five year global
odyssey through Hong Kong, Singapore and the Philippines in Asia. Along the way
he metamorphed into a corporate troubleshooter and problem solver. He came to
the United Arab Emirates for a month in 2004 and has remained in Abu Dhabi ever
since.
A late discoverer of the joys of writing, his first two
novels, The Violin Man’s Legacy and Vengeance Wears Black have sold more than
70,000 copies. The third in the Jack Calder series, Savage Payback was launched
in late 2013.
Seumas has become a strong proponent of the use of the
social networking channels to reach and engage with a global readership market
in the new age of self-publishing and eBooks. Seumas is a sought-after speaker
and lecturer on how to develop productive online relationships. He was voted
Blogger of the Year 2013.
Thanks a bundle, Charity, for allowing me on to your great web page ... all the best, m'Lady :)
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