I'm discovering that effective marketing is the best way to sell books. Apparently, you can be the best author in the world (NB: I'm not saying I am!), but if nobody knows about your book, you're going to sell very few copies.
With this in mind, I'm going to start promoting myself and my book a little more, starting with my Facebook page. From there, it's Twitter, a new web-site (unrelated to writing, but will help with cross-promotion), radio and newspaper interviews ... the sky's the limit! I may even have to start referring to myself as a "media tart" :) .
Anyway, I hope to get the words "Sandra Peut" and "Blue Freedom" out there a lot more. I'll really only discover how successful I've been at marketing once December rolls around and the novel's published. Fingers crossed ... (oh yeah - and a lot of work to be done, too! :) )