Have you ever known something was true? Deep down in your
gut where it matters most? Something everybody around you also
knows? Have you been there, yet something deep inside just won't
buy it? Well, I'm in that fix right now. I have been for years.

Ebook fiction won't sell. I know it's so. And so do most.
Likely you do as well. Folks curl up in a chair, sprawl on the
couch, lounge in the bath tub, and so forth to read fiction.
Hey, this is the way it is! Still ...

You see I love fiction. I love to read it. And I loved
writing it for many years. (I even sold a novel, "Fatal Games,"
Pageant Press, 1989) And I'd love to write another tale. But I
don't want to pay the price to print it. With a minimum order of
a thousand copies at $4-$5/copy? (And don't talk to me about
print-on-demand; I've been there and seen that.) So maybe an
ebook. Maybe.

I've been saying this ever since I first heard ebooks. But
I have never tried one. Now I'm going to do it. The risk?

About 40 hours and 40 bucks. I've a dandy tale ready to go.
Sure, all may go down the drain. In which case, I'll really
know. But there's that outside chance, like the 40-1 long shot
in the race, that at least *some* people *will* read fiction in
the ebook format. So I'm going to ...

Go To BizMinisites.Com
(The sales pitch is at )

They have a neat plan for mini-site builders. You get 500K
of disk and lots of supporting extras, all for $9.95 per quarter.
Heck, that's not much more than $3/month. And it's a smooth
running service. Great download times. You don't even need a
domain name, but you can use one if you like.

Next Stop? GoTo.Com

I'll hunt up the keyword suggestion tool at



I'll enter some obvious choices. "Male fiction" and "male
adventure," for these are the catagories into which the tale
fits.

There's no telling how much time this will take, because I've
simply got to find keywords actually being entered. Then select
from those entered most often the ones that are as close to the
above as I can find. This is a critcal step, for there's no
point optimizing a page for keywords nobody uses.

Then it's off to Google to enter my keywords there. I'll be
looking at counts of pages that come up on each phrase, hoping to
find some low. Those with the highest counts at GoTo (Demand),
and lowest counts at Google (Supply) will become the set of
keywords I'll use.

Building Site Content

Here's where the time may fly. It takes a while to figure
what to write about. Topics that work well with the keyword
phrases selected. The home page will be the sales presentation,
with the major content that blurb you see on the backs of some
paperbacks in bookstores. Something to hook the reader into
wanting to read the book.

I haven't a fixed idea about actual content. Maybe something
of the task of writing in the male adventure genre. Some more
about why it is no longer being published. I can't say until
I have those keywords.

The object here is to have all pages point directly to male
adventure or male fiction, thus creating a small theme site,
currently popular with some search engines.

The catch is that it's tough to write an optimized page for
the search engines that also works well with visitors. But it's
got to happen. And it can take time. (For suggestions about
creating such a page, send any email to
)

The Launch

I'll upload the pages, double check them, then head for the
search engines. Next, I'll get on about serious business, and
wait a time. It takes a while these days to get listed.

I may take a crack at the pay-per-click search engi