Cindy Marsch asked Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt:

I'm about halfway through this novel and am really enjoying your artistry. Could you talk a bit about the experience of putting it out bit by bit on Wattpad? (I hope I understood that process properly.)

Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt Hi, Cindy.

Thank you - and I'm glad you're enjoying Pride's Children.

For me, the critical part about serializing was that, since I'm very slow to write and edit, and I didn't want work going out that wasn't finished and up to standard, I had to have a buffer of finished scenes (40 when I started - which almost turned out to not be enough) for those weeks in which I wouldn't finish a whole scene.

At that point (Aug. 25, 2014), I had already created a Wattpad account, so I started putting text into a new 'work' and publishing it.

It's that simple. Each week I'd update with a new 'chapter' and send out a short notice to my followers that it was up.

Then, if I got notice that there were comments, I'd read my feedback and comment back where appropriate.

It was an experiment. It worked for me because there was feedback, and several of the older Wattpad writers were more than kind. Little by little, followers accumulated.

The beginning chapters (about the same amount as what is in the preview here, the Look Inside on Amazon, and on my blog, liebjabberings.wordpress) are still on Wattpad.

It couldn't be simpler, and I suppose the main difference from those who develop their stories there is that I was putting up finished work. It took me about two years to put up all the scenes on my blog, and I stopped putting them on Wattpad around chapter 14 - I just left a link to my blog there. The process of formatting was taking time I needed to write and polish those last scenes.

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