Book Two Begins

I’m in the in-between stages of writing, with wrapping up book one and realising that a book never feels truly done and now starting the first draft of book two. It feels strange going back to first draft writing after being in edit mode for a number of months. It’s also strange writing the second book in a series when everything’s more established and the story is continuing. I am also making the transition between writer and indie author, and the two are very different. Writer for me is the creative process, the imagining of worlds and of characters and stories, for me it’s the ultimate fun part of being a creative. The indie author side is the business end of writing, which I am finding intriguing but wanting to balance with the writing side.

Since putting Rogue on pre-order I’ve had 8 sales, and it entered the top 100 in the Amazon LGBT Sci-Fi charts, peaking at #55. As part of learning Amazon and selling on the platform, I’m curious to see how these categories work and what works well for my series. Ultimately it’s dystopian but there are so many more elements to it. I’ve had a number of requests as well for paperbacks which I found surprising, as a predominately digital consumer of books I understand the appeal of paperbacks, particularly if you know the person who’s written it but it wasn’t something I was expecting. I’ve ordered a proof from Createspace and still working on the formatting, I’m looking at Ingram Spark as a way of creating the paperback in the hopes of getting it into Book Depository which is more consumer friendly for those who live in Australia and New Zealand.

Finally, I’m also working on building websites, a sub-section of this site is all about the Convergence Series and I will be adding to it as I go. There are lots of best practices when it comes to author sites however, I’m always keen to try my own thing and see if it works. I’ve more ideas than time at the moment, but such is the life of a creative.

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