It occurs to me that I am a terrible promoter of my own work. My new novel is presently sitting at #261 in Kindle Cyberpunk Sci-Fi and #310 in Cyberpunk Sci-fi overall. I don’t have a clue how to push the conversation up to top 100, let alone top 50. Of course, most of the tops are LitRPG books, so maybe I ought to throw one of those together and build off the name recognition in order to tell more stories (and make a proper living of this thing). I have plans for stories, but no plans on how to get them out there to the world. This is the problem with being bad at promotion.
This is the larger problem with being a writer without a stable and powerful publishing machine. If you have the levers of power at your disposal, your work is going to move–at least at first. Power could be a devoted fanbase of readers. That alone is what powered Shirtaloon and his He who Fights Monsters series to stay top 10 for, well, ever. Unfortunately, I never tried writing a story like that. I want to. Maybe that is the next one in line after Justice Engine.
Some Thoughts:
- Absolutely Bonkers Headline of the Day: “Logan Paul’s Pikachu Illustrator Pokémon card sells for record $16.5M at auction” The really bonkers part: It’s a profit of nearly 11 million! The kid who won it is the son of White House Communications Director, Anthony Scaramucci… So, how did that dude come up on nearly 12 million to give his kid to spend on a pokemon card?!
- Let me be in on the rip for like one week. All I need to do is clear half a million and my life problems have ended.