I’m currently trying to navigate the bemusing world of self promotion, for Afterwards. It’s quite alien to me – I’ve never been particularly comfortable promoting my own work.

Reviews are important, I’ve found – the more you have the better (something to do with algorithms I suppose). So I’ve been asking everyone I know who has read it to leave a review on Amazon or Goodreads. I still only have a handful, but it’s slowly growing.

I don’t want to be that annoying person who shoehorns an ad for my book into every conversation or social media post. So that’s last resort territory. I have faith in the story and I know that if I can get it out there people will enjoy it. It’s figuring out how to do it that’s tricky.

It seems hard to get your book noticed when you don’t have the advantage of a large corporate marketing team etc. I’ll figure it out, in my own way.