Most every day I get an email or message on my Facebook page that begins with "how are you doing today?" or "I saw you book today" and the person wants to know what my inspiration was or for me to tell them about me book. I bit into it at first. I was over joyed that someone was interested enough and wanted to know more about me and my books. Along the way I learned that it was all a scam to get me to buy into what ever they were selling.

I'm a poor struggling author with hardly a penny to my...

I was at an event yesterday where I didn't expect to sell much of anything. It was at a senior living center in Osprey Florida. these places are notorious in the authors circles for not buying books. The organizer had a select few vendors, jewelry, gifts, cards, and books set up in the lobby. I did surprisingly well. I'll do this event again if asked.

I've also been doing a lot of social media marketing and it's paying off. I spend about an hour or more on my Facebook authors page, LinkedIn,...

I'm trying something new this month. Zeely.com is an interesting marketing platform that I'm playing with. It's for any type of product or service that you can think of and that a person wants to promote.

As an author I'm creating static ads using their templates and AI goes to work and makes up the ad. I used my Florida Wildlife Heroes Series first. Zeely helped me make a campaign to promote all four books in the series. I was pleasantly surprised with how well it did. Before I sold maybe one...