How do you do this? I feel super awkward trying to self promote my Kindlevella, even to my friends. Do you have any tips for how to handle that feeling? Or just in general for that matter.
Honestly? I never try to promote my books to friends or family. Ever. If they read it, great, I’ll talk to them about it. But if they don’t, I never encourage them to. Many of them apologize for never having read it! And I never expect them to.
What you kind of have to realize, is the fact that you wrote a book and they didn’t, makes you kind of special. I don’t say that to be egotistical. It doesn’t make you GOOD or BETTER. It just makes you special. It makes you someone who loves that kind of story enough that you wrote it because you wanted to be able to read it.
So you need to direct your attention to other people who love that kind of story. Statistically speaking, that’s unlikely to be people you know IRL. You have to go online and find those folks. And you have to realize that they are HUNGRY for that kind of story.
Because if you’re a fan of that kind of story, you KNOW that there aren’t enough of them out there. You know that every time you finish reading a good one, you wish you had another one to read right away. Or you wish the one you just finished had another book in the series to read.
That’s the secret. Be a huge fan. Write what you’re a fan of. Find other huge fans and tell them, however you can, that you’re writing what you’re both fans of.
I too, suffer from a heckin big main cast that all want to be the center of attention. Hilariously, sometimes the plot is driven forward because the actual protagonist gets bored with the others chatting up a storm while they argue as to what to do next, and wanders off to explore. Because no one ever learns that if they want him to stay put, they have to engage him in conversation.
That sounds super relatable! And also awful! I have never dealt with this before! It sucks! Godspeed in figuring it the fuck out!
I know it’s been literal years since EXU started, but nothing has ever tickled me more than learning Aabria meant for the Crown Keepers to trade that crown in for influence.
Can you imagine giving your players a bargaining chip to buy themselves into the big leagues and they just freaking abscond with that shit? (of course you can PCs will jump ship at first opportunity)
And the pivot she makes after they don’t give it to Gilmore where she’s like… ‘Ok, you wanna make a story about keeping this dangerous object out of unsafe hands? Well then the first hands we have to examine are yours’.
I’ve never seen a funnier series of unfortunate consequences.
Dorian had his entire alignment shifted to the left and they didn’t have to do any of that 😂
Musk just said that unverified users will only be allowed to view 600 tweets a day before being rate limited, so everyone should get ready to welcome some new tumblr neighbours
That when you’ve got an ensemble cast of 10 main characters and you put them all in the same room it is FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE to have them all feel important and narratively drive the scene god damn it why can’t some of you just be NPCs for a second.
Now that this lesson has been learned Garrett, what are you going to take away from this, and how are you going to handle it in the future? :P
I refuse to remove even one gay from my book so I guess I’m learning nothing.
