In today’s episode of our award-winning podcast, we discuss our emotional and financial investments in our independent writing and publishing careers (high level), and the results of our energy (low to non-existent). It’s hard to spend thousands of hours to write, edit, and publish a book, only to drop it into the vast nothingness called “sales.” We talk about this emotional hurdle along with our plans to circumvent it.
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Related: Pearls Before Swine.
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A Sheriff in Nevada
Finding Salvation Part One
Hope Knocks Twice (The Emma Parks CPS Novels)
Love & Death on I-80 West (The Tucci Chronicles)
Serving Salvation Book One
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This was in interesting episode that explored something I’ve been hearing about from many channels lately. There does appear to have been a big drop off in the number of people who are reading as of late.
To give you another perspective though, I approach this whole question from a rather pragmatic level. In the past I have had hobbies for which I spent the same amount of money as I do with my writing for which a financial return on that investment was ever a possibility. That writing has a chance of returning some of that investment of time and money is, to me, a pleasant bonus, not an outright goal. I’m also nowhere near as prolific as the two of you resulting in less books written over a longer period of time.
The other thing I feel compelled to mention is in regards to your question about writing quality. In my mind, quality only comes into play after a reader has discovered your books. The real problem we all face is finding ways to help the reader who will enjoy our works discover our books in the first place. Even then, with the rate at which things change in the marketing world, we can’t even be sure the tactics that worked today will work next week and must be on the constant lookout for ways to tweak our outreach. Much like you are doing now.
I wish you good luck in your ongoing efforts, and pray you will find the patience to follow through with what you are doing.
This is spot-on excellent advice. For me to absorb it, I need to probably abandon my financial background that tied success to budget management.
Thanks for checking in. I promise to mull this.
(ps: Lived in Vancouver Island about 55 years ago, and we were in your beautiful city last year. Go Canada.)