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My Teen/YA Boys’ adventure novel A Wobblegong And His Boy has been available in both paperback and Kindle formats for nearly four months now. I’ve been on a number of podcasts promoting the book (I record the next one tomorrow) and blanketing social media with promotional material. However, as many of you know, one of the most difficult tasks when you are an indie author and have been published in mainly smaller presses is marketing, that is, getting the word out to the point where a significant number of people buy, read, and especially review your book.

In other words, I need to build a bigger audience.

Raconteur Press has been doing its best in this area and for the novels in their Boy’s Adventure Books line, but as I said, they’re a smaller press with limited resources.

So here I am sending “positive waves” (I just rewatched the 1970 film Kelly’s Heroes if you don’t get the reference) into the universe in the hopes of grabbing someone’s curiosity about why my book would be an absolute GREAT read, especially for boys between the ages of ten and eighteen.

In interviews, one of the questions I’m asked most often is “what is a Wobblegong?”

It’s a very good question and kind of difficult to answer because Wobble’s nature is rather mercurial. It’s in a state of almost constant flux not only in shape but in behavior and half the time, even Remmie, the book’s teenage protagonist, has no idea what Wobble is up to.

I’m posting part of Wobble’s “origin story” (everybody loves a secret origin story) to give current and future readers a handle on where Wobble came from.

Oh, keep reading after the end of the excerpt for links to the three interviews that are already online.

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