It
always amazes me how quickly time can go by. We’re into the year 2015 and my
mammoth sized goal to become a successful author is still moving forward.
In
my last update I talked about Goodreads and this is still going well. I had a
second giveaway for the twelfth days of Christmas and had 767 people enter. All
awareness is important so I hope in time I’ll see some feedback and reviews.
There have been a couple and both are very positive so it’s a start. I’ve
joined in on some discussion boards but I’m finding it difficult to find topics
I feel I worth discussing or commenting on.
From
the second Goodreads Giveway start date until mid January there was also a free
giveaway of the ebook and we had about 1000 downloads over this time. I’m very
happy with this and once again I hope so good feedbacks appears. The main
reason I hope there is good feedback is because with a certain amount of
feedback the publishing company can access certain marketing sights that will
give The Book of Prophecy more exposure.
I
have also been busy trying to finish my Frankenstein novella. I’m happy
to report this is now done! This means I have two novellas finished and I’m
glad to have them done. It also means the only outstanding piece of work at
this point in time is the follow up to The Book of Prophecy. This is a daunting
task as its 150,000 words of editing, and with so much else going on in my life
I don’t know if I want to start going through it yet. I’ll update this in the
future.
As for the novellas I decided to send them
to, Susan Armstrong, who is an agent at Conville and Walsh Literary Agency.
She’s one of only two agents who spent time to communicate with me beyond the
formal correspondence of rejection that most agents give, so I thought, ‘why
not send them to her and see what she thinks.’
I’m still very adverse to the agent side of
things in the publishing industry as they have far too much power and
subjectivity, and at times are clueless of the market and what is quality
literature and not just going to make them a quick buck. I guess that’s balanced
out with how successful self-publishing/other-ways can be. That said, the
benefit of a good agent who is able to present my work to perhaps bigger publishers
and a broader market would obviously be ideal, hence sending my work to an
agent who I feel is worth contacting.
My
main writing priority right now is a new blog about Mental and Physical Health
and my experiences. I’m really enjoying the topics I’ve been writing about and discussing
them in a way that may one day be of benefit to others. I do want to get back
to the story writing but this new blog has taken priority, maybe I’ll be able
to balance it if I’m more organised.
That’s
about everything I’ve been doing in relation to writing and although not very
exciting I’m learning to take on the ideology of the
tortoise and not the hare.
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