How to Market a Damn Thriller

My Marketing Genie insists that I need to be in front of the camera for social media posts to effectively sell my book. This is twisting me in knots. I do not believe that my face and body are necessary for anyone to read my book, and in my case, having my face in public (without a professionally styled and artfully created photo) might be detrimental.

For God’s sake, let’s be serious here! It’s a text (and soon-to-be audio) book. With words! No illustrations in this one. Just WORDS.

I am an introvert. My favorite place to be is somewhere quiet with a computer, where I can simply read or write. That’s it. As an attorney, I was forced to be an extrovert, in the extreme, in order to gain clients, win cases, or power through disputes. Now that I no longer practice, I no longer want to exhibit any aspect of extroversion. (Is that a word?)

It seems there are as many versions of how to market a book as there are authors. I really thought that I would not have to be a part of this process as we went forward, because Marketing Genie excels at her job. She is worth every penny I pay her. Yet, here we are again, discussing how I can be on the required videos needed for all the social media accounts.

Yesterday, I sent an entire Threads post with significant comments to MG that supported my position. (Hey, I’m a lawyer through and through. I support my arguments with actual facts.) Not sure if it convinced her.

I need your help with this, as I require additional data.

Please vote in my poll this next week. I have also posted one week of “no face” videos on TikTok to collect more data.

If you think I should be in front of the camera, I’ll capulate and then the GLOVES ARE OFF and you will not know what hit you when I start making TikTok videos. And those I might have to post on Notes. I mean, it’s social media after all. (And they are about to start with the ads…[insert eyeroll here].

Don’t make me do this.

Please.