Shameless Self-Appreciation Thread

Next up! Snooping on the other panelists to see who they are, LOL.

 

The SFWA panel on fighting and writing was a lot of fun, and I got to give a shout-out to Malik and Dragon's Trail at the end, LOL.

I must say, live panels are a good opportunity to say something stupid with incomplete thoughts, hopefully, I didn't make an ass out of myself, heh heh.

 

After playing around with the new Amazon reporting dashboard I found out I've sold exactly 100 books so far on Amazon. It's a start! On to the next milestone.

 

100 books over how long?

 

I published my first book December 2020, so a year-and-a-half, give or take. I should note, I've also sold 22 in other stores, and given a bunch of them away in the hopes of gaining either reviews or newsletter subscribers. So the total nr of readers is a bit higher. But in general finding people to sell my books to is hard work.

 

Thanks for the kind words I am proud of the numbers.

Being in the Netherlands, comicons aren't much of an option... Other than that I agree that marketing has a lot of different aspects to it and much of it comes down to interacting in a genuine way with readers. I'll been taking it slow marketing wise until my next novel comes out (aim is september). I currently have 3 stand-alones published, which makes marketing harder since read-through is lower. The next novel will be the sequel to one of the other ones, so I'll increase my efforts then.

I still have to go look for some fun epic fantasy facebook groups to interact with. And posting here for me is about interacting with other writers, just because it's fun

 

One of your more recent sales was to me, part of a campaign I've been engaged in for the last year or two to read a book or three of the published authors on this site. You were the fifth or sixth.

Thus far...I grow tempted to offer my services to prospective authors here, to aid in the resolution of plot and worldbuilding issues.

 

Thanks! Much appreciated.

I might actually take you up on that. Current plan is to start a new series in a new world after my next novel. And I'm thinking that to kick off that series I'd like to get a developmental editor or similar to go over the book and smooth out all the wrinkles in plot and pacing etc. At my current speed that's still a year away of course.