Aka- level 8 😉😄
This year is both flying by and taking its time. I can’t believe fall is just around the corner!
I’m excited to spook up my house 🧛♀️🧝🏼♀️
And enjoy some cooler weather for a change.
Welcome August!
Tag: writer
Can you relate?
Where do all these new writers find the time, the energy and the readers to boost their self published books so quickly??
Paying out the nose for people’s interest just doesn’t seem to be right in my mind. Is it just me? Is paying for constant ads and/or banking on family and friends to actually read and review your work really your only option when doing this alone?
A good friend of mine, one who writes and edits as a fairly profitable profession, told me your worst readers are the people closest to you. Basically, everyone who talks so highly of your “ambitious idea” will praise you to your face and then expect everything for free and will give you nothing.
I saw that first hand when my first book was published.
Some bought it and read it just to find any and every little flaw. Some purchased just to say they did and still haven’t read a word. And others are still talking about buying my work and go this day this I’ve still not seen the sales. 😂
Who else can relate?
A slow-moving world – The morning tea
Nothing opens before 7am, everything closes early, some restaurants still don’t allow dine in, and it’s still confusing and hard to tell when you are required to wear a mask or when you’re not allowed to have more than yourself accompany you.
I think I’ve been kicked out of a total of 3 offices this week due to them having a “patient only” rule and not informing us until we arrived… and at one point I registered a fever of 107 after being outside and waiting in my car for my appointment. Of course it was just due to the heat, but the look I received from everyone upon the thermometers reading was a bit scary. 😬
Masks have become the new normal.
After being the 2nd hardest thing to find next to toilet paper, now they’re everywhere you look in every pattern and style from plaid to glittery gems.
Go team sparkle! 💎
Slowly but surely people are growing accustomed to all the new changes. But we still have a ways to go. There’s a growing concern that things are opening up too soon and while some are taking every precaution, there are still a few that feel they are invincible and above the precautions.
How long will we be living like this?
Is this something that we will just adjust to overtime and slowly forget the way things use to be?
Or will we see real long term and positive changes from all of this?
Ebook or No Ebook?
Let’s get down to it
Honestly. I dislike Ebooks…
I know, I know! Why do you publish Ebooks if you hate them so much?
- Because everyone likes Ebooks (well most people do)
- Ebooks sell better than paperbacks
- They’re cheaper- better for budgeters
- Social media connect – makes its so much simpler to share your favourite titles with friends and family
- Super ideal to pack and travel with
- Access to thousands of titles at your fingertips
- …. and that’s all I got. 😄
The truth is, publishing via Ebook prior to releasing a paperback is a great way to start stirring up reviews and attention for the book on a minimal budget. Many editors, publishers and writers have said this (and proved it) over and over again. Especially those of us that are publishing independently.
But I hate them!
- I don’t like staring at a screen that long. Special screen, special glasses or not, my eyes tire out.
- I lose interest in reading!
The book may be great but I can never sit down and read on a kindle as long as I can sit with a physical book. - Forgetting to charge the darn thing!! 🤦🏻♀️
- Losing the cords!
- Your kindle crashes! (I’ve been a victim … I posted about it too)
- I like having signed copies of my favourite authors (heck I like being able to sign my own books for others to have)
- You lose out on that new book (or old book) smell
- You don’t get to walk the isles of a bookshop and sift through titles weighing the book, the price and the catchy ness of the first paragraph as you decide what to buy or pass on.
So what are your thoughts?
Ebook or real book?
What are some of your “convincing” points when telling someone why you like one vs the other?
Book things
So weirdly enough, my debut novel has had more acknowledgment this and last month , than it has since it was originally published 😳
I’ve read a lot of pieces from authors who claim that the more books you have the better sales you get. Simply because readers like to be able to buy more and not have to wait.
I get that. I hate waiting for sequels to books I love or TV series.
You wait around to long and you end up losing interest.
What are some series (books or tv) that you lost interest in before the next instalment arrived?
Riverdale was a biggie for me. I’m just now getting back into it and finishing the latest season.
~Jen
