Comments on: The problem as I see it

By: zoewinters

zoewinters — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:05:07 +0000

hehehe Edie. Obviously. I just mean that writers act like getting published is the BIG problem.

By: Edie

Edie — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:54:34 +0000

Zoe, Hotter After Midnight is great. Speaking for myself, I need to get the book published before I get the people to read it.

We’re having an electrical storm, so I have to get off the computer. I was off for over two hours, and I thought it stopped, but guess not.

By: zoewinters

zoewinters — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:09:21 +0000

Hey Cindy,

Very true. I think so many are focused on just the short term problem, when from the very beginning we need to be thinking about “now how am I going to reach my audience?”

No problem. I just ordered Hotter After Midnight on Amazon (Finally.) So now it’s in my TBR pile.

By: Cynthia Eden

Cynthia Eden — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:02:56 +0000

Zoe, I think you hit the problem dead-on. Because really, what good is being published if you can’t get folks to read your books? (You sure won’t stay published long that way!)

And thanks for mentioning little ole me.

By: zoewinters

zoewinters — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:40:21 +0000

Thanks for commenting Tipper! Anything that can connect you directly with your reader is worth further exploration. Investment has to happen one way or the other, whether it’s time or money or a combination.

But spending vast amounts of money up front is no longer the only way to get your message to the people.

By: tipper

tipper — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:26:21 +0000

It is true that there are many challenges to publishing your manuscript and many go unpublished every year. Then, as you mentioned, there is the difficulty in getting readers to find your work. Trying to publish a book I have found a site called crestbooks.com that enables you to sell your manuscript electronically without all the up front investment of self publishing. It gives writers from all backgrounds an avenue to distribute your work to the masses and get valuable comments/critiques.

This is an awesome avenue to present your piece to the world and for readers to find those, up and coming, great authors.

Check it out.

By: zoewinters

zoewinters — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:29:51 +0000

Yep, Spy. Also, I would definitely pick up your fiction, just from reading your blog.

By: spyscribbler

spyscribbler — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:23:01 +0000

Everything I do is with the reader in mind. That’s the gift my pseudonym taught me. Everything else is just a step.

That said, I don’t try quite as hard to sell pseudonym’s beginnings. I mean, as long as it starts in the action with some story suspense, then that’s done. They already know what they’re getting, pretty much. With real name, I feel so much pressure to sell the whole story in the first page.

But when I write, a dual part of my mind is stepping back, trying to see what the story experience is for the reader.