So now that painful experience of
writing, editing, rewriting, more writing, more editing, researching and
submitting to publishers is all done, what is the next step to becoming a
successful writer. At this juncture, I have to admit, without shame, that I
have no idea, whatsoever. I do however, have a plan.
Once
back in Great Britain I hope to learn how to arrange some ‘meet an author’
nights. I would also like to work on getting some retailers to stock my books
and to even get some media coverage for my finished masterpiece. I am however
both stuck in a foreign country, with no one who specialises in arranging those
things for me to do. I would like to point out, I write books, I don’t manage
people who write them otherwise; I would have studied Business, not English.
It
perhaps is not so cool for someone who aims to be a future best seller to
announce to the world that he (or she) is as lost as everyone else, but I would
feel bad if I lied about it. Yes, writers too find themselves on the throne without
bog roll sometimes too. However, while I’m worrying and planning on this side
of the unknown; I’m working on things that I am good at too, that is, my next
book.
It
should not be long now until I begin launching it through the virtual rocket
(that is the internet) into the battered, paper encrusted walls, belonging to
the editors (i.e. their inboxes) hoping that with the success of my first book,
they will be more apt to receive my second. So, I leave you all at the end of
another short update (as I’m hungry and have editing to get on with (unusually);
I wonder what marketing strategies all the new writers have out there in
getting the word out.
Until next time, Read, Write, Live
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