I Should Be Less Surprised When People Buy Books
I released Ruthless Rabid Raging Ravenous Rampaging Remorseless Repulsive Revolting Repugnant Zombies! on godless.com a week early to modest sales, but I’ll take them. I put up the paperback and the preorder for the ebook on Amazon, but didn’t advertise it. I just needed to order copies for an upcoming convention. When the book officially released on the 15th, it turned out there were a number of preorders and several paperbacks moved as well. This spurred some sales of other books I had up. This is how it is supposed to work, but it still took me by surprise. I think I spend a lot of my writing career prepared for things not to work and then I’m pleasantly surprised whenever they do. Is that the healthiest way to approach a career? I’m not sure. Either way, thank you to everyone who gave the book a chance and it’d be lovely if you did read it and liked it, if you would give it a review on Amazon.
Here are some things you might be interested in:
Note: This is an older article, one of the first I ever wrote for LitReactor, but the facts and details still hold up.
20 Mind Destroying Secrets about Ghostwriting
by Jay Wilburn via LitReactor
You might not like this article if you still believe every successful author writes his or her own books …
Author’s Note: This story appears in my short story collection Read Write Edit Play Repeat vol. 1. If you like it, you might like some of the other stories in the collection too.
“She Pled Her Belly”
by Jay Wilburn
Alice Crimson pled her belly and that’s why she lived while Captain Mad Redd Crimson did not. Anyone looking at her could tell she was heavy with child. Some of the other women who were spared from the slaughter, that Captain Jamison Stork called trials and executions, were showing less. Being with child did not guarantee that there wouldn’t be atrocities committed against them before this was all over.
While the inland cottages burned and coughed up smoke to her back, Alice faced out to sea at the tilted wreckage of her husband’s ship …
AuthorCon in Williamsburg, Virginia April 1-3, 2022 is rapidly approaching. This is the first year of this convention, but Scares That Care, the charity benefitting from the proceeds, has a solid track record of putting on great events, including their flagship convention each summer.
I love the vibe of a Scares That Care event. I’m very excited that this new event from a trustworthy organization and a worthy cause will be my first convention in 2-and-a-half years. I’m excited to see old and new friends. I’d love to see you there if you have the time to swing by.
To find out more about the convention or the people Scares That Care help, click here.
Thanks, Everybody
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