Doing as the Successful Independent Authors Do
As of late, I’ve been pushing myself to learn everything I need to do in order to succeed at this whole writing gig thing. I’ve been trying to get my fifth book underway but I keep feeling my attention get drawn to the marketing side of writing.
How can this be? The golden rule for writers is to keep writing, so how dare I let my blue sharpie pen and notebook collect dust?
Turns out, my gut guiding me towards marketing has been right.
I bought several more “how to” ebooks and have been slowly tackling them one at a time, letting their wisdom and advice get absorbed into my brain. There’s a ton of information to sift through, and I’ve been taking it all in objectively. As a fantasy writer, not all the advice seamlessly translates to my genre. All the reading I’ve done so far is most useful to nonfiction writers.
Anyway, here’s the latest “how to” Book I’ve read that I’d recommend to any writer who wants to make a career out of his or her books:
