My first book has been out a month. 🦗 But that's what I expected, so no disappointment. I'm not doing any marketing until I publish the second in the series in two months. I've read a new author with one book is a hard sell. Two novels completed is more than twice as good. When I have the five novels done for the "first season" of my series, I will start paid advertising. Until then, I'm patient, and satisfied I did a good job producing entertaining stories.
For me, it was around then i was 20, that I discovered the poet in me. At some point I actually approached a publisher with my poems. They made me a solid offer, but I would have had to pay extra. I didn't have the money at the time. So I also published short stories on a website. That's how it happened that someone from a magazine wrote to me, asking if he could publish one of my stories. That's what happened, but it only stayed at one. Otherwise, as a poet, I've always had trouble writing prose, as I kept having new ideas pop into my head. Until, ten years ago, I came across an idea that has become my life's work. And thanks to Cormack McCarthy, I've found a way to write prose as a poet. And often I just want to get this idea, which has developed into a huge rabbit hole, out of my head.
My first book has been out a month.
🦗
But that's what I expected, so no disappointment.
I'm not doing any marketing until I publish the second in the series in two months.
I've read a new author with one book is a hard sell. Two novels completed is more than twice as good.
When I have the five novels done for the "first season" of my series, I will start paid advertising.
Until then, I'm patient, and satisfied I did a good job producing entertaining stories.
For me, it was around then i was 20, that I discovered the poet in me. At some point I actually approached a publisher with my poems. They made me a solid offer, but I would have had to pay extra. I didn't have the money at the time. So I also published short stories on a website. That's how it happened that someone from a magazine wrote to me, asking if he could publish one of my stories. That's what happened, but it only stayed at one. Otherwise, as a poet, I've always had trouble writing prose, as I kept having new ideas pop into my head. Until, ten years ago, I came across an idea that has become my life's work. And thanks to Cormack McCarthy, I've found a way to write prose as a poet. And often I just want to get this idea, which has developed into a huge rabbit hole, out of my head.