This Blog Now Replaced by my new Author Web Site

It's 6th June 2023, and this post is getting an update!

It's been wild, but this blog is now going to be replaced by my relaunched Patreon account my new author web site.

Blogger is something of a dinosaur, and there is no function on here I want to use that isn't easier and simpler on Patreon. Plus, of course, tiered patronage is a thing there.

The link to my Patreon account is here: https://www.patreon.com/rcventure

The new site is here: https://outdoorsauthor.blog/ 

Part of the purpose for relaunching that account is to encourage me to get back into the habit of writing on a regular basis, whether it's fiction or not. Some Virtually all articles there will be free content, and I will likely be continuing some of the series of linked articles I started here (for example, 'Character School'.)

Use SumoMe to Drive Sales from your Book Site

It's every author's nightmare.

Your new site is looking awesome. You are about to hit "go" on some well-tuned Facebook advertising, and you hope this will give sales a bump, since most of your books' rankings have started to drop off on Amazon.

The advert goes live. Impressions start coming in, and soon you are racking up the conversions. Yes, people are going to your site through the ad! Money well spent.

But then the book sales don't really move. At all. They stay stubbornly on trend, and that trend is "meh".

What to do?

Well, as luck would have it, this exact scenario happened to me shortly after I created the shiny new ArmadaWars.com web site. Because I don't believe in holding back strategies that would help other authors (you're my colleagues, not my competition!) I'm going to share my solution with you now.

Announcement: Get to the Choppa!

It's an auspicious day!

I'm proud to announce that the official Armada Wars full web site is now up and running.

ArmadaWars.com

You'll notice the new site has its own blog (called "News" in the main menu), and you might well wonder what use two blogs are. Here are my thoughts on that:

Although it is branded as the Armada Wars blog, I've used this blog here for quite a lot of posts about my experiences as a new author, and writing posts advising other writers who are publishing virgins. I'll continue to do that here.

There will be some minor re-branding, but this will become the RCV blog, carrying articles and pointers relating to the writing experience.

All blog posts about the Armadaverse will now appear on the ArmadaWars.com news page.

Old posts relating to the Armadaverse will remain here; for posterity, for link validity, and for the sake of Google's sanity.

And yes... there is already new news on the new news page. Go. Go now.