The Shine is off the Apple
Well, the shine has definitely fallen off the apple of the past week.
It was exciting to launch a new book at TeslaCon. It sold well at TeslaCon and people seemed really excited to read it. It was exciting to finish another book and really start getting to brass tacks on that one. It was exciting to put the TeslaCon book out on Kindle, and for the first day, that book jumped into the top 50 Steampunk books for a whole glorious day. When it started out, it was somewhere around #350 in Steampunk. On Kindle, it climbed all the way to #47. Sadly, it's fallen again and is now dwindling somewhere around #180.
Alas.
Book sales are long, tedious enduro-marathons, though. Not sprints. It takes a long time to build sales on a new product or a new series. We can't just leap into first place.
I met with Eric Jon Larson on Friday morning to talk about the future of the book series. LORD BOBBINS AND THE DOME OF LIGHT is already done. I'm about to start work on a third LORD BOBBINS book. He also has some other, smaller novella-length projects in mind that I hope to get off the ground sooner than later. There could be a long and interesting future for these books if the audience can find it.
I just hate the waiting process. Waiting is why I don't have hair any more.
It also reinforces how important it is for people to post reviews, tell friends, and use social media to really push books they like or books they want to succeed. Without everyone's help, these things are dead in the water.
I'll keep writing. I keep trying to quit, but I just can't. I will keep putting out books, even if I can only release them as Kindle ebooks and nobody reads them--I'll still do it. It's the same sickness that makes standup comics do their set in empty bars or makes struggling actors monologue in their living rooms. We can't stop. We have to do what makes us happy.
It's just better when others come along for the ride.
Perhaps I should do some live-streaming or something like that. Read a chapter or two, or something. I know I've talked to Randall Stewart of Juggernaut Productions LLC about possibly doing some YouTube videos of chapters, or maybe some audiobook stuff. We'll have to see how that goes. And I hope to gem up some new promotional material in the near future.
If you're not following writers on Twitter, you should. I'm on there. Most of the rest of the writers I know are, as well. You kind of have to be nowadays, although it is not my favorite social media.
Fingers crossed, all.
Let's hope the good luck keeps rolling.
--Sean
It was exciting to launch a new book at TeslaCon. It sold well at TeslaCon and people seemed really excited to read it. It was exciting to finish another book and really start getting to brass tacks on that one. It was exciting to put the TeslaCon book out on Kindle, and for the first day, that book jumped into the top 50 Steampunk books for a whole glorious day. When it started out, it was somewhere around #350 in Steampunk. On Kindle, it climbed all the way to #47. Sadly, it's fallen again and is now dwindling somewhere around #180.
Alas.
Book sales are long, tedious enduro-marathons, though. Not sprints. It takes a long time to build sales on a new product or a new series. We can't just leap into first place.
I met with Eric Jon Larson on Friday morning to talk about the future of the book series. LORD BOBBINS AND THE DOME OF LIGHT is already done. I'm about to start work on a third LORD BOBBINS book. He also has some other, smaller novella-length projects in mind that I hope to get off the ground sooner than later. There could be a long and interesting future for these books if the audience can find it.
I just hate the waiting process. Waiting is why I don't have hair any more.
It also reinforces how important it is for people to post reviews, tell friends, and use social media to really push books they like or books they want to succeed. Without everyone's help, these things are dead in the water.
I'll keep writing. I keep trying to quit, but I just can't. I will keep putting out books, even if I can only release them as Kindle ebooks and nobody reads them--I'll still do it. It's the same sickness that makes standup comics do their set in empty bars or makes struggling actors monologue in their living rooms. We can't stop. We have to do what makes us happy.
It's just better when others come along for the ride.
Perhaps I should do some live-streaming or something like that. Read a chapter or two, or something. I know I've talked to Randall Stewart of Juggernaut Productions LLC about possibly doing some YouTube videos of chapters, or maybe some audiobook stuff. We'll have to see how that goes. And I hope to gem up some new promotional material in the near future.
If you're not following writers on Twitter, you should. I'm on there. Most of the rest of the writers I know are, as well. You kind of have to be nowadays, although it is not my favorite social media.
Fingers crossed, all.
Let's hope the good luck keeps rolling.
--Sean
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