Have you ever put so much effort into something that you know you have to do to accomplish your goals yet at the end of the day you feel that it was all a waste of time, because you didn’t actually accomplish anything at all? I’ve been feeling this way for some time now. In fact I’ve felt this way ever since I published my novel. Oh, this has nothing to do with publishing the novel itself. It has to deal with the priorities that I set when I went out and tried to market it. This day and age of independent and small press publishing has pushed more and more of the work load onto us as authors. We find ourselves forced to do more of the marketing. While some of the marketing, such as book signing, has always been required of authors, other parts were strictly the domain of the publisher. In this day and age of social networking many publishers are turning over these tasks to the writer. I have found myself buried under these new burdens. Some of my problems stem from the simple fact that I’m so new to all of this that I don’t have a clue what I’m doing, but other reasons are of my own making. I’ve made some poor choices wasted precious time. Some of these choices were made simply because I didn’t know I was doing it wrong. Others were just bad calls on my part.
I have now resolved to fix these problems. The simplest is to get back to the basics. The basics being I with a pen and paper in hand writing down what is in my head. The second thing is getting my marketing stuff back in order and down to a manageable size. Thankfully I won’t be doing this part alone. My publisher, Fountain Blue Publishing, has some truly great people. I’m presently taking a course through them to help me figure this whole marketing thing out. Until I get all of these things, squared away there may be a few things that have to go by the wayside, at least temporarily. One of them is this blog. This may be my last blog for a while. I need to focus on my writing right now and finding content for this blog distracts me from what I want to do, what I need to do.
I have now resolved to fix these problems. The simplest is to get back to the basics. The basics being I with a pen and paper in hand writing down what is in my head. The second thing is getting my marketing stuff back in order and down to a manageable size. Thankfully I won’t be doing this part alone. My publisher, Fountain Blue Publishing, has some truly great people. I’m presently taking a course through them to help me figure this whole marketing thing out. Until I get all of these things, squared away there may be a few things that have to go by the wayside, at least temporarily. One of them is this blog. This may be my last blog for a while. I need to focus on my writing right now and finding content for this blog distracts me from what I want to do, what I need to do.
RSS Feed
