Ask the Author: Brian Michael Stegner
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Brian Michael Stegner
Getting to create new worlds.
Brian Michael Stegner
If you want to actually have people read your stuff and you're using Amazon's KDP, just to get your foot in the door you need to have an amazing cover, good title, and catchy 10% sample.
If you lack any of those three things it probably won't matter if the book is amazing, no one will get past judging it on those first three variables.
Also it helps to be like 60% artist / 40% marketer. If you can't do that (generate a good cover) on your own you'll need to hire that part out.
Otherwise your only readers will be your mom and your cat.
If you lack any of those three things it probably won't matter if the book is amazing, no one will get past judging it on those first three variables.
Also it helps to be like 60% artist / 40% marketer. If you can't do that (generate a good cover) on your own you'll need to hire that part out.
Otherwise your only readers will be your mom and your cat.
Brian Michael Stegner
Always many different things...a Sci-fi collection, backpacking stories, business book for kids, Shopify how-to, general fiction stuff, etc. I tend to be writing on 4-7 different things at the same time, and then only move in for the kill on one when it's at about 80%.
Brian Michael Stegner
Switch to a different writing project and / or force myself to do a nominal amount (200-500 words, etc.)
Brian Michael Stegner
It feels like books build up inside me like tumors and then I have to dig them out.
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