italian in japan
Minstrel
Ever since I started writing my book, despite the many challenges involved in making that idea become a story, the thought that always kept me up at night the most was how to advertise my book and how to promote myself as an aspiring author to a potential audience that does not know of my existence.
The book is now in its final editing process. I will want to start a kickstarter campaign once it's ready to go, but in the meantime i decided to start a patreon page where i will post short stories, chapters of edited and unedited material, artwork and more. Essentially I want to write and want to reach as many people as possible.
I have a very small following on social media. I do know some mildly popular streamers who are trying to promote my page. Nevertheless I really don't know how one goes from zero people knowing you exist to 5 people reading your work, to 10, to 100 to X.
I will admit that even the simple concept of creating a newsletter is a little confusing to me me. where do I start? How do I grow it? Where do I reach out for people so that I can ask them an email to reach out to them?
How have you guys done it? I would like to know of all of yours experiences, but I would probably be able to draw more from those of people who were or are in a situation similar to mine: you are not big on social media, no particular contacts with the editorial industry, do not have bags of money to spend with no risk (you see where I'm going with this).
All help would be a great relief, since this part of the process is what has terrified me since the first word I put on that word document, and now that it's actually time to face the giant, I don't even have a stone in my sling.
Thank you all!
The book is now in its final editing process. I will want to start a kickstarter campaign once it's ready to go, but in the meantime i decided to start a patreon page where i will post short stories, chapters of edited and unedited material, artwork and more. Essentially I want to write and want to reach as many people as possible.
I have a very small following on social media. I do know some mildly popular streamers who are trying to promote my page. Nevertheless I really don't know how one goes from zero people knowing you exist to 5 people reading your work, to 10, to 100 to X.
I will admit that even the simple concept of creating a newsletter is a little confusing to me me. where do I start? How do I grow it? Where do I reach out for people so that I can ask them an email to reach out to them?
How have you guys done it? I would like to know of all of yours experiences, but I would probably be able to draw more from those of people who were or are in a situation similar to mine: you are not big on social media, no particular contacts with the editorial industry, do not have bags of money to spend with no risk (you see where I'm going with this).
All help would be a great relief, since this part of the process is what has terrified me since the first word I put on that word document, and now that it's actually time to face the giant, I don't even have a stone in my sling.
Thank you all!