Like clockwork, every Monday I get a report on my website hits. I'm not sure websites do as much as they used to in terms of readers visiting them, but we all have them just in case new readers want to know more about us, our books, and our characters.
If you're a practicing schizophrenic--that is, as an author I have three names--you get three reports.
My Lorna website report always comes in first. Every week that site gets the most hits. And it's consistent. The same amount, give or take 10-20 hits either up or down.
My Lorraine website report shows interest in that name and work has been steadily growing since A Crafty Killing came out in February. True, most Booktown Mystery readers haven't made the connection that Lorraine and Lorna are the same--even though I've been screaming that fact at the top of my lungs for almost three years . . . but I'm very hopeful.
Then comes my L.L. Bartlett report. There's one word for that: pitiful. It's less than half of what Lorraine gets, and only a quarter of what Lorna gets--despite the fact that I've been writing under that name for three years longer than I have the Lorna name.
I don't know what to do about the fact that people don't know that Lorna/Lorraine/L.L. are the same person.
Skywriting?
I don't know what to do about pumping up those numbers, or finding more readers for Lorraine and L.L.
I wish I did.
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