Introduction: Joyce Sully
Hi, everyone! I'm Joyce and I just joined the community after seeing the September Creative Jam post mentioned by ysabetwordsmith. I'm a full-time writer, but that doesn't mean I'm doing so well with making sales. I'd like to change that.
I independently published my first little flash fiction collection this summer. (For anyone interested, it is called Robot Daughter, and it's available in my shop and on Amazon for $.99.) I'm going the route of independent publishing because the only way to survive as a writer these days is to either be the one in a million exception or to put as few steps between yourself and your money as possible. Six months to get a check from a publisher was never going to fly for me.
Plus, I write sufficiently unconventional stories, including an abundance of queer characters, that traditional publishing would present too many unhappy compromises for me. I know an audience is out there for the kind of stories I write, even if big publishing doesn't believe that, and I would like to have as much direct contact with those people as I can. The authors I like best are doing the same kind of thing, though I'm not as financially able to support them as I would like right now.
I haven't tried the more immediate types of crowdfunding, like the prompt calls and micro funding I've been seeing people do. That's going to change in the next couple days. I've got unexpected, large vet bills, so I'm going to put together a prompt call for stories to put into micro funding. I'll announce it here when I'm ready to start it up.
I look forward to participating in this community and I hope I can support the rest of you with, at the very least, some signal boosting while I get my feet under me again. Thanks for having me.
I independently published my first little flash fiction collection this summer. (For anyone interested, it is called Robot Daughter, and it's available in my shop and on Amazon for $.99.) I'm going the route of independent publishing because the only way to survive as a writer these days is to either be the one in a million exception or to put as few steps between yourself and your money as possible. Six months to get a check from a publisher was never going to fly for me.
Plus, I write sufficiently unconventional stories, including an abundance of queer characters, that traditional publishing would present too many unhappy compromises for me. I know an audience is out there for the kind of stories I write, even if big publishing doesn't believe that, and I would like to have as much direct contact with those people as I can. The authors I like best are doing the same kind of thing, though I'm not as financially able to support them as I would like right now.
I haven't tried the more immediate types of crowdfunding, like the prompt calls and micro funding I've been seeing people do. That's going to change in the next couple days. I've got unexpected, large vet bills, so I'm going to put together a prompt call for stories to put into micro funding. I'll announce it here when I'm ready to start it up.
I look forward to participating in this community and I hope I can support the rest of you with, at the very least, some signal boosting while I get my feet under me again. Thanks for having me.