Joined
·
74 Posts
In 2011 I published 10 short stories/novellas on Amazon. I didn't do a whole lot to market them. I created an author's facebook page, a Wordpress site with my available titles and a tragically unupdated blog, and a Goodreads author's page. Needless to say, though I'm happy with the copies I've sold, I haven't sold many and I'm pretty sure that the one's I did were purchased by friends and relatives.
During the last couple of months I've been reading a lot about and actively trying to market my stories. However, I've found that I've been very unproductive with my writing, even though I have ideas and outlines ready to be tackled. Luckily, I have a backlog of stories and a publishing schedule that will allow me to publish a story a month until the end of 2013. Unfortunately, the time I would usually allot for writing has been consumed by marketing my stories.
Has anyone else run across this problem? Does it have to be an one-or-the-other situation. I had no idea that trying to my my existing pieces visible would be so time consuming.
During the last couple of months I've been reading a lot about and actively trying to market my stories. However, I've found that I've been very unproductive with my writing, even though I have ideas and outlines ready to be tackled. Luckily, I have a backlog of stories and a publishing schedule that will allow me to publish a story a month until the end of 2013. Unfortunately, the time I would usually allot for writing has been consumed by marketing my stories.
Has anyone else run across this problem? Does it have to be an one-or-the-other situation. I had no idea that trying to my my existing pieces visible would be so time consuming.