Marketing an Indie Romance Novel: Week 01 Process & Results
I’m taking a completely unknown author (Christine Mayfaire) and building an audience for her a contemporary romance novel series, starting with releasing her debut novel a chapter at a time on Medium.
Here’s how it’s going.
On August 01, I dropped the first chapter of Christine Mayfaire’s debut novel, “Better Than Fate”, on her Medium account.
Full disclosure: Christine Mayfaire is the combined pen name for me and my bestie Ami. “Better Than Fate” is our first co-written novel.
When I started, we had two followers and zero posts on Medium, and one of those followers was me. I had three followers on Instagram, and two of them were my other accounts. The third was a friend.
I was pretty much starting from nothing. I didn’t even have all the bots that had originally followed my Instagram account when I started it almost two years ago in anticipation of this day.
If I hadn’t already done so, that would have been step one for launching a new pen name you’re intending to use for a while:
1 Set up all of your social accounts and grab your URLs. I recommend you only work on growing one or two accounts at a time (in this case, Medium and Instagram), but lock down your handle on all of the major…
