Ask Steena Holmes discussion

If you have any questions about my writing journey - please place them here! I'd love to talk about my journey from self publishing to signing a deal with Amazon.

How did you market yourself when you first started self-publishing? I've just published my first novel, The Chronicles of Koa: Netherworld and I would love some advice :)

Congrat's on your first novel! Are you writing another one? Are you looking for readers? That was my main goal. Getting my book out there as much as I could (without being spam). I got involved in Goodreads groups, I started a Facebook author page, I started conversations on Twitters, did a blog tour/review tour etc.

Thank you very much :) I am working on the second one now! So far I have a Facebook fan page, started a few twitter discussions and did my first interview!! It's fun, and I enjoy it. I wish I had more time to devote to marketing. Do you write full-time? Also, how did your blog tour go? Did you do a traveling tour as well?

When I started I worked full time. Now I write full time. Blog tour went well - it did what I needed it to...I helped to get my book front and centre of potential readers!

What steps did you take to get your Amazon deal? Did it simply come from how well you sold? Thanks again for taking the time to answer our questions :)

Steena, how did you first arrive at the idea for Finding Emma? Personal experience or bolt out of the blue?

A little bit of both Christine! For a brief second my youngest daughter was out of my eye sight and that moment of panic hit me hard. Christine wrote: "Steena, how did you first arrive at the idea for Finding Emma? Personal experience or bolt out of the blue?"

K.N. - there's no magical answer to this, sorry! I wish there were ;)
K.N. wrote: "What steps did you take to get your Amazon deal? Did it simply come from how well you sold? Thanks again for taking the time to answer our questions :)"