Giveaway! This means FREE!

I have a book on my website, www.nikkibroadwell.com, that I'm offering free in exchange for signing up for my newsletter, but a week has gone by and so far I've had only two takers, and one was the person at Godaddy helping me sort out the submit button! (but she did say she's excited to read it) Is this because of Bookbub and other places where people are able to download free books? A friend of mine says she never pays for books--amazing.

At first I thought it was due to the lack of security on my site and made sure I purchased SSL. When I set up my website on Godaddy there was no discussion about what I needed and have found out these things in a round-about way. To move on, I purchased the SSL but found out that I had to jump through some other hoop to have it work. I wrote a complaint to Godaddy about this, saying that they really should tell people what they need to do AFTER they purchase one of the many things needed in order to have a viable site. Same thing has happened with SEO. I added that right away and only found out recently that it only applied to 2 of my 7 pages. What? Yesterday I spent some time getting 2 more pages 'optimized' but I have more to do, and from what I understand I will have to pay if I want to optimize more than 5 pages. I've been warned about Godaddy and the nickel and dimeing, but the site was an easy one for me to set up and I do like it. And I have to say that when I call, (which has been nearly every day of late)  the tech people have been easy to work with and very pleasant and helpful.

Back to why no one is availing themselves of my offer--I have posted on FB, I have tweeted, I have done an askDavid promo--(if you don't know about this site you should check it out.) So I really have no idea what's going on unless people are so tired of being spammed on a daily basis that they refuse to share their e-mail addresses!


If you have any interest in checking out my website or getting a free book, go to the web address listed above, and click on the contact page. The Bridge is a young adult/new adult fantasy about two young people destined for something great. But life intervenes, separating them and bringing all sorts of problems. I'm working on a sequel called Time Gap which should be out by the end of the year. (I hope)

I love comments so if you have any insight or just want to say something, please do!!! And thanks for reading!

Onward and Upward

So...no takers on my book contest/giveaway--can't say I'm not disappointed...this marketing thing has taken its toll on my faith. Is it that people don't read paper or is it that no one is interested in reading my books? The Amazon Kindle version is at rock bottom prices for the month of December. Book II

I read FB posts from indie authors who are doing great...selling like hotcakes...I've begun to avoid reading these posts because I don't want to feel less than, or bad about myself. I won't engage in the 'you tag mine' game...it just seems silly. And the 'like' thing is basically the same...does it really matter in the long run? Do people pick your book because of how many 'likes' you have on your page? I truly doubt it.

With millions of books out there it is very hard to find a niche or any kind of following. I've read the articles, I've done what the articles told me to do--I've spent hours on FB answering questions people ask about subjects I have some modicum of knowledge about...I've read blogs and commented. I've tweeted, I've blogged and blogged again, and posted my blogs on FB, I've set up a bunch of blogs on subjects in my book, ie: mother-daughter relationships, gypsies, gods and deities...planning to do one on the healing power of herbs...I've bought books from indie authors and commented on them...what else? In the meantime, book 3 is languishing, waiting for editing.

I'm complaining and I don't want to do that. I want to move on in a different direction that actually works! I haven't hoofed it around yet, although I mentioned in a past blog that I was planning to do that. Mercury's retrograde and Christmas kind of took over...

So, as of January 1st,  I will have a new plan--can't reveal it here since it is yet unformed. But I think it has to do with calling on the goddess to help me, visualization and letting go of expectations...good luck, you say?