YMMV here but I think it's okay to say "Hey, I love this book I wrote. It's not really selling. Let me tell you about it!" Because that's honest but is NOT guilting. We do love our books. We want them to find an audience. Especially backlist books--they pays the rent.
I didn't need to wake up wondering if October will bring a paltry royalty check (electric bill? Happy Meal?) from my backlist Skyhorse Publishing books only to see Skyhorse authors being asked to "support" downtrodden marginalized figure Melania for her Skyhorse-pubbed "memoir" via mass email.
Backlist bingo update for September. We have read over a 100 books together! ✨ 💙📚 armedwithabook.com/backlist-bin...
September update as we work through our pre-2024 TBR. Take a look at what the Backlist Bingo community has been reading.
Someone somewhere is going through my "classic" (read old) erotic romance backlist. Bless 'em.
Hopefully by this time next year I'll be hawking two books while preparing to publish the third. Hope springs eternal! It would be nice to have a solid backlist. Indie author goals.
The whole of the UK and Ireland. So borrow your fave authors' books - even for unknowns like me it's enough for a coffee or two and sometimes a pie, so imagine what you could do for midlisters and those with a big backlist!
Originally Exhumed was out 2012; I got my backlist back and republished everything 2013. I'd done Bloodlines as a Kindle freebie over five days and moved about 10K copies and a chunk went on to buy the rest of the series. It wasn't over yet, though the next was in progress. Then I got sick in 2014.
Aah, thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it (and very cool that your library has the audiobook)! ❤️ Best of luck, it's definitely tougher than it should be. 🫤 Sometimes you have to strike it lucky and talk to the right person. But you've already got an awesome resume/backlist, so that might help!
If I already know about a book and see another announcement, maybe it’ll remind me to rec it to a friend! This doesn’t only apply to new books, either. Tell me about your backlist! I probably missed some of your earlier work!
And for that matter the Hazard and Somerset, and the Last Picks serieses of Gregory Ashe. In the backlist, JanWillem van der Wettering.