An Experiment begins

I have, over the last few years, written a number of stories. Some short but, amongst them, a number of novel length tales as well.

All of them are, to some extent, science fiction - if I were snobby about it I'd say they were 'Speculative Fiction' but I'm not and they're sci fi. My passion isn't space operas or cowboys and aliens but more in the Spirit of William Gibson or Arthur C Clarke. I'm interested in big ideas, politics, power, greed, meaning and hope. I will continue to be.

So my stories reflect my preoccupations - excitement, consciousness, humanity, identity and hope in adversity. The fact that I also use some of the trappings of Sci Fi is just a part of that.

So where does the experiment come in?

Well, having been pestered for some time by friends that I should try to get published and having that sentiment agreed to by another friend who IS actually an editor I thought I would give it a go. However, I'm more interested in creating an ebook than traditional publishing and this is the experiment.

I'm going to self publish - the cover will be professionally designed and the stories will be properly proof read (unlike some of my posts...) so it should be able to live (or more probably die) on the actual writing.

But I'm stumped about marketing. Sure I can prevail on friends via Facebook (and in person!) - they might go so far as to buy it at the princely sum of 60p (or whatever I end up charging). I might even look at a low key effort at self-publicity via my business networks but once I've tapped that I've no idea how to make this work...so can you help? Ideas, thoughts, strategies (including those which can help take over the world).