X-Post: Hello from Japan!
Kyoto to be precise!
I'm having a good time despite the fact that I somehow managed to upset my leg yesterday. I couldn't walk on it well for half of yesterday after it happened but it's getting better now. I think it was the hike up the Fushimi Inari hill through all of the torii gates that did it. Ah well.
I've been racking my brain trying to figure out some things about writing and how to sell better. I don't think I do that great a job of being a sales person. For some reason everything I do doesn't seem to have much impact.
I make the pretty emails telling people everything they need to know about the book but it still doesn't result in many sales. Maybe I'm just not sellable. I know I don't write mainstream stories - I never have done and I probably never will. I write more for myself, just telling the story that is inside me without fitting anything else into it that would make it instantly more marketable--like sex! I just don't see the point to adding more sex scenes than feels right.
Not sure what I can do to improve my marketability. With Prophecy it's a tricky one. I either sell it as an ebook where it probably won't do well because each of the three books is over 100'000 words...or I try to get it trade published.
I think I have to have a good long think about where I'm going wrong and see what can be done about it. I exhaust so much time in sending out promo emails and running competitions and it always seems pointless in the end.
Heck...I'm sure that I'll feel better about it all soon. I'll blame the leg for my current moodiness but I'm only human after all and when we do things that don't result in what we were expecting we generally feel a bit down about it.
Off to Tokyo again tomorrow. Maybe I'll feel better then.
F x
I'm having a good time despite the fact that I somehow managed to upset my leg yesterday. I couldn't walk on it well for half of yesterday after it happened but it's getting better now. I think it was the hike up the Fushimi Inari hill through all of the torii gates that did it. Ah well.
I've been racking my brain trying to figure out some things about writing and how to sell better. I don't think I do that great a job of being a sales person. For some reason everything I do doesn't seem to have much impact.
I make the pretty emails telling people everything they need to know about the book but it still doesn't result in many sales. Maybe I'm just not sellable. I know I don't write mainstream stories - I never have done and I probably never will. I write more for myself, just telling the story that is inside me without fitting anything else into it that would make it instantly more marketable--like sex! I just don't see the point to adding more sex scenes than feels right.
Not sure what I can do to improve my marketability. With Prophecy it's a tricky one. I either sell it as an ebook where it probably won't do well because each of the three books is over 100'000 words...or I try to get it trade published.
I think I have to have a good long think about where I'm going wrong and see what can be done about it. I exhaust so much time in sending out promo emails and running competitions and it always seems pointless in the end.
Heck...I'm sure that I'll feel better about it all soon. I'll blame the leg for my current moodiness but I'm only human after all and when we do things that don't result in what we were expecting we generally feel a bit down about it.
Off to Tokyo again tomorrow. Maybe I'll feel better then.
F x