Well, talk about a learning curve. I have been in London over the last few days attending the London Book Fair at Olympia, Kensington. First and foremost, I must say that it has been a blast, and I have enjoyed every minute of it. I have also learned so much from being there it has been a little overwhelming.
Olympia is huge!! That was mind-blowing enough. We looked like typical tourists; map in front of our noses for the first few hours! But once we had found our bearings and managed to get ourselves in the right place, the information started rolling in. I have attended many of the seminars at Author HQ, where I have been able to listen to authors (both traditionally and self-published), literary agents, editors, publishers and many other professions within the writing community and learn from their experiences. I have met several authors, including L J Ross, the self-published author whose first novel, Holy Island, knocked best-seller Girl on a Train off the top spot on the best sellers list! I've also met Darren Hardy, the UK Manager for Kindle Direct Publishing and got to speak to him about my experiences and some of the ways forward for me and my writing.
The main thing that I have learned over the last few days is that there are a lot of things that I haven't been doing, or could have done very differently over the last year or so since publishing The Love That Binds Us, which would have increased my readership and gotten my book out there to more people. So, I now have a list as long as my arm of things that I want to do in order to try and boost my readers and expand the number of people who are following and interacting with me on Social Media.
So, keep your eyes peeled for some exciting changes -
there have already been some to the website!!
