My first post :)

I'm fairly new to this writing game and knocked out my first five books in record time, put them up on amazon (as you do) and then sat back hoping for the best.

After nothing much happened, apart from a couple of kindly reviews, I went back for a re-read. Oddly they were nowhere near as good as I remembered and certainly not good enough for anyone else to read. So I took them all down again and am now in the process of reworking.

So that was my first excellent lesson. Always go back and re-read your stuff having had a decent break from it.

Also it seems that you improve with practice. I'd heard this said before but didn't think it applied as I thought I was already doing my best. But certainly the re-writes are turning out far better than the originals.

I still don't know whether my writing is any good, and it may be total pants. Certainly it's the type of stuff I like to read; full of fantasy gore and horrible nasty bits, but of course nothing too real and upsetting.

I currently only have The Slaughter to offer and am beavering away at making the others 'good'. I hope you will take the time to read it and leave some impartial feedback, even it it's "You're wasting your time Ralph. Go do something else instead!" :)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Slaughter-Bo...