The end of a era

Friends,

It is with a heavy heart and a breath of relief that I announce that I have pulled my books from all the shelves. The Raven Society is no longer. Now it might take a moment for IngramSpark to pull them from all their channels, but I suspect that it will be done in a day or two.

It wasn’t a hard decision, just had to have the nerve to do it.

You see, my friends, people who love you will tell you that something that you produced is good. They will support you and cheer you from the sidelines. They want you to succeed, because in their eyes your a winner.

But in reality, life doesn’t work like that.

My reality cheek that my books were not up to par or worth the stress was when I happily logged on to Amazon to see that someone had ordered book 3. My pride and joy. The story that I really wanted to tell.

Only to have my mother send me a photo that she was the one that ordered the four copies.

Over a thousand copies of book 1 went out to readers, and only 50 people deemed it worthy enough to review. You might think that sounds good because its a slim chance that anyone reviews books. But its a low enough number for me to know that my first book was not good enough for people to want to continue to read the story.

The story wasn’t well written. The story didn’t strike a cord with readers.

It failed.

Am I upset?

A little. Three years of my life. A story that I wanted to tell.

But sometimes you have to admit failure. It was my story. Not a story for others.

Maybe one day I will have the energy to try again. Maybe one day, I will rewrite. But for today, I think that I just want to morn the loss of a goal and find a way forward.

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