I'm with you on this one. If it's ready, why wait? The more material you have "out there," the better. Besides, I don't think it will result in a loss in sales by releasing several books all at once. Especially if they're part of a series. Readers usually want to find out what happens next.Victorine said:I'm releasing as I'm writing and getting done with them. Why wait, if you know it's ready? It usually takes a while to gain momentum. If you wait a year and then publish them all, and then it takes a year to gain traction, you'll wonder why you waited and didn't start gaining traction right away.
If the first one isn't ready yet, that's different. Keep working on it until it's the best it can be.
Vicki
As others have said, the timing is really up to you. It's important, though, whatever you do, to try and do as much "pre-promotion" as possible...especially if the books are coming out individually. For example, publish/promote book #1, promote/finish book #2, release book #2/promote book #3, etc.WFMeyer said:If one at a time, what should the pacing of the releases be?
What Vicki said. My book is the first in a series, and I released it in April. I hope to have the next one out in November, and then the third sometime in 2012 (probably the summer). I may not actually gain any real traction on the first book until the time the second one is out, but at least this way I'll have had those 7 months worth of sales (money!) and the chance to get a good Amazon algorithm.Victorine said:I'm releasing as I'm writing and getting done with them. Why wait, if you know it's ready? It usually takes a while to gain momentum. If you wait a year and then publish them all, and then it takes a year to gain traction, you'll wonder why you waited and didn't start gaining traction right away.
If the first one isn't ready yet, that's different. Keep working on it until it's the best it can be.