Thanks, Runs with wolves, so glad you enjoyed Blood Lust!

Thanks, everyone!

Debbie, Kept (first novella in Blood Lust) features a cat shifter as the heroine. And book three (next one after Save My Soul) will feature a panther shifter as the hero. :)

Thanks, everyone!

Thanks, Latisha, glad you enjoyed Blood Lust. :)

Thanks, JL, so glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for the support! (Mated, the third novella in Blood Lust features a werewolf.)

You might try focusing on getting review copies to smaller book bloggers, those trying to build an audience and following. It can give you an "in" and if they like it, they have friends who are also book bloggers. And it can go from there.

Thanks, Belinda! And on Amazon, my pen name outsells Zoe, and it's by a wide margin when you consider that name only has two titles out. So yeah... definitely don't kill yourself over the marketing side. What you really need is a few "influencers" to read your book and start the recommendations-machine rolling.

Thanks for the shout out!

@Sarah, that was my thought as well. I'm not sure Amanda Hocking wants to be referred to as a "desperate writer". I don't know of a single indie author who wants to be referred to as a "desperate writer". Many of us go indie as a conscious choice. I've sold over 28,000 ebooks this way myself. It's not exactly a world of desperation and no success.

Thanks!

Thanks Everybody for all the great comments!

I'm going to try to reply to everybody who asked a specific question:

@Stacey Smith Twitter follower?

@Rae: I came from the factory that way. :P Just kidding.

@Katherine: I do a bit of research on the creature first, then I twist it to create my own mythology. Like with vampires I took some stuff out and left others in. One of the main things that's different in my vampire mythology is that vampires DO reflect in the mirror, but the reason they usually avoid them is because you can see the full demon in the mirror, which isn't great for stealth. There is a lot of stuff out there about the incubus. Originally it seems that the incubus/succubus was a good excuse for an affair. "I can't help it, I got preggers by a demon, not my fault!" LOL. Of course in my verse an incubus just feeds off sex, they can't actually get a human female pregnant.

@Jason Thanks! I wanted to do something that "wasn't vampires" which I think was a wise choice. My vampire novella, sells well, but it's consistently the worst-selling of the three. I think people are starting to get burnt out on vampires a little.

@vidisha Internet, old mythologies, etc. I figure out what's out there, then take it and make my own tweaks.

@everyone else: Thanks!

Hey Alise, I recognize your avatar! How are you? I think Twitter and Facebook and even Goodreads and blogging are all very important for promotion (And I've recently added YouTube to that with my new Zoe Who? video series.)

Here's the video link if you haven't seen it: http://www.youtube.com/user/ZoeWinters1

I love social networking and marketing. Which probably makes me pretty weird for a writer. A lot of times if I'm procrastinating, I'm on Twitter. Sometimes it does get a little draining so I try to take weekends off and unplug from all the noise. But usually I like it!

@Stephanie

My favorite cover is the Blood Lust cover designed by Robin Ludwig of Robin Ludwig Design, inc.

Of MY designs that I did, Kept is my favorite.