This could go hand-in-hand with Maria S' thread about website design, but I have a unique set of circumstances here in regards to a potential website. First some background. I am NOT an avid reader, nor do I have a fleet of manuscripts just ready to burst forth from my brain. I am the proverbial one trick pony. I have 1 story to tell and that's it. It's a story I have been nurturing in my head for over 20 years. It was written as what I now refer to as my proto-manuscript back in 1990, was unsuccessfully published back then and was scrapped, placed in a box to be forgotten about. After 8 years, I was home recuperating from a back injury and dug that old proto-ms up and saw why it wasn't successful. It was pretty bad. However, with the life experience I accrued over those 8 years as well as world events like 9/11 having taken place, I felt that I could rewrite the story with a new, better storyline, while salvaging a few choice scenes from the proto-ms. That was back in 2005. After 5 more years of collecting information and research, I set about writing the new storyline. It was completed late that year, and for the last 3 years has been undergoing revisions and rewrites to polish it up into a final product. Now it is ready for "take-off." But after 50-plus rejections from agents, plus one very bad experience with a publisher who dealt with unagented authors, I am now looking to go publish this thing on my own through KDP and Create Space. However, these all require the use of social media, something I am not adept at. I don't have a blog. My Facebook page is used very infrequently and has less than 100 friends on it. And Tweeter is absolutely out of the question. And like I said, this is it for me. There will be no sequels, no series, no other stories. Not even a short story collection. I have to hit the grand slam in my first at bat here. So what can I do to maximize my efforts? 20 plus years of work on something that I feel so strongly about can't be wasted like this. This story's destiny can't be exile in a box in my basement, (This time stored on a flash drive, not a fully printed ms!) or just a couple of dozen sales to a few close friends and relatives through KDP/Create Space. What kind of blog operator could I even begin to look at, let alone maintain and run? I used to be in marketing some years back and know how difficult it is to try and get people to notice what you have to sell. And that was with a company. How can an individual like myself do it all by myself?
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