Having just bought, read, and freaking adored Rational Arrangement, I do have some suggestions for boosting sales, actually. Um. I hope this isn't crazy presumptuous, but the first thing I did when I finished the book was go looking for an author blog/website so I could follow you in the hopes of book updates/new books some day. But it was actually really hard? I found the website you have for RA really easily, but there was no author information here or a link to this livejournal, and your Goodreads author page is really empty too - I know it's possible to link a livejournal blog to your Goodreads author account, and I think it'd be a really great thing to do.
I don't know why this is the case, but speaking as someone who reads 300+ books a year, I am way more likely to pick up an interesting-looking book if, when I check out the author's page, there's more then just a name and the title of their book looking back at me.
Also, re worries that potential readers will not realise it includes/features a bisexual poly romance (which is obviously a huge selling point!); have you thought of adding tags to the Amazon blurb? I've seen a lot of LGBT+ books add a list of 'tags' or to the end of their blurbs - just like tags on a livejournal post. Sometimes these tags are even deliberately funny. Or the author might write it in the form of a playful 'warning'. Let me find an example... Like this, at the end of the blurb for KJ Charles' A Charm of Magpies;
'Warning: Contains hot m/m sex between a deeply inappropriate earl and a very confused magician, dark plots in a magical version of Victorian England, family values (not the good kind), and a lot of swearing.'
Or for a (more explicit) example of the tagging thing I mean, from WolfPack by Anya Adonis;
contains hot M/M action, rough sex, oral sex, anal sex, and more.
Etc. Obviously being super explicit might conflict with the tone of RA, but it's a maybe starting point?
Anyway, I loved the book, plan to review, and good luck with the sales!
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Date: 2015-09-02 10:50 am (UTC)I don't know why this is the case, but speaking as someone who reads 300+ books a year, I am way more likely to pick up an interesting-looking book if, when I check out the author's page, there's more then just a name and the title of their book looking back at me.
Also, re worries that potential readers will not realise it includes/features a bisexual poly romance (which is obviously a huge selling point!); have you thought of adding tags to the Amazon blurb? I've seen a lot of LGBT+ books add a list of 'tags' or to the end of their blurbs - just like tags on a livejournal post. Sometimes these tags are even deliberately funny. Or the author might write it in the form of a playful 'warning'. Let me find an example... Like this, at the end of the blurb for KJ Charles' A Charm of Magpies;
'Warning: Contains hot m/m sex between a deeply inappropriate earl and a very confused magician, dark plots in a magical version of Victorian England, family values (not the good kind), and a lot of swearing.'
Or for a (more explicit) example of the tagging thing I mean, from WolfPack by Anya Adonis;
contains hot M/M action, rough sex, oral sex, anal sex, and more.
Etc. Obviously being super explicit might conflict with the tone of RA, but it's a maybe starting point?
Anyway, I loved the book, plan to review, and good luck with the sales!