Following Google alerts, we do sometimes get very interesting hits:


By the time of their arrival at dawn at the Takau Lakaleka reef, Timella had broken up and sunk in 5m swells.
Yachting Monthly

We have a Kindle edition of Island Gardens of Takau in the pipeline. It takes Amazon.com some weeks to get it posted "live." I'll announce it with shouts and hand-waving, of course. It will be very interesting to backlist novel authors as to whether a Kindle edition attracts attention and/or affects print sales.

Getting Takau on YouTube may be a bit of a challenge. It's one of those places where officials wave their hands in front of your camera if you try to take a picture at the port, you might say. But perhaps we can get some garden shots accompanied by audio descriptions from the novel? Imagine a vid (ie booktrailer) going viral about getting to Takau. I'd love to hear your suggestions/brainstorms on this!

Authors should be familiar with basic Amazon.com affiliate skills. Selling direct on the online stores depends on your arrangement with your publisher, of course. If you are self-publishing, you'll need to become an expert in this arena.



I've placed an example on the home page of this site, a vanilla Amazon.com affiliate link. The key to it is to have your affiliate code built into the HTML snippet… Continue