It was a simple
idea, really. I began learning (and loving) promotion early on in the Internet
age. As I watched others struggle, I wondered why should they beat their head
against the wall trying to navigate all the information out there? I mean, I’d
already done that and had it under my belt. I was linked to lots of sites that
fed information to me without any work on my part.
Perhaps it was
hubris that had me announce “I can take 5 years off your writing path if you
just blindly follow my instructions.” I didn’t know if that statistic was
right, I made it up off the top of my head. The message was, even if you don’t
understand everything you read right now, trust me—it will all fall into place.
Understand, these
weren’t my ideas, they were culled from all the sites coming into my computer.
I eliminated blogs that didn’t really add anything to our collective knowledge
or were a time-waste. I sought information that could boost a person’s career.
There was a
secondary requirement: members had to go over to sites where fellow Posse
members were blogging and add their two cents. It was a subversive move.
Suddenly, that site had dozens of comments. Posse members were a valuable
commodity for site owners. We identified ourselves as Posse and people realized
we were a force to be reckoned with. I was even getting requests to “send the
Posse over.”
About a month ago,
I developed a FB page for the Posse. I invited the 87 members and then opened
it up to everyone. There’s no charge, everyone contributes and we still support
wherever one of us is posting. However, I started doing a Round-Up every Friday
listing all the topics discussed that week. It gets posted all over the
Internet. I also found fun Western photos to illustrate the posts.
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| Sunny Frazier |
Sunny Frazier writes the Christy
Bristol Astrology Mysteries, set in the Central Valley of California where
Sunny lives. A military veteran (Navy, Vietnam Era), she worked for 17 years
with the Fresno County Sheriff's Dept., 11 of those years as Girl Friday for an
undercover narcotics team. Her books are based on real cases and real places
from those days--as well as a bit of astrology, which she's been doing for 45
years. Her character, Christy, has her own Face Book page where she doles out
astrological tidbits and Sunny is the head honcho of the Posse, an
intra-promotional Face Book group for writers.
Books 2 & 3 of the series can be
purchased on Amazon or at Black Opal Books. Book 1, "Fools Rush In"
will be reprinted later this year.
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