It is easy to publish to Kindle it turns out. But it's seemingly impossible to market your work. The Kindle is super saturated with all kinds of would-be fiction writing stars, of varying talent. From the crowd of shouting voices trying vainly to get attention directed at their stories, it seems impossible for anyone to have any kind of meaningful hope of being discovered.
There it is. My pessimistic thought of the day.
Maybe we should start a thread devoted solely to unknown writers we discover that we like.
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Posted by Foste (Member # 8892) on :
To paraphrase one of Writing Excuses' guests:
The readers are going to become the gate keepers. This is somewhat akin to the slushpile situation, since, let's faceit , if your work isn't good or doesn't reach its audience no amount of self promotion will help you.
Just my 2c .
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Posted by KayTi (Member # 5137) on :
To paraphrase Konrath - there are bajillions of websites out there (or channels on TV, or magazines to read, or newspaper articles, or items in a grocery store...) yet somehow we manage to find content we are looking for and/or want to find.
Trust the network, my young padawan. Trust the ratings system. Write good stories. Put them out in the world where people can pay you money to buy them. Then do it again. And on...
Posted by Jeff Ambrose (Member # 9437) on :
The great thing about self-publishing on the Kindle is that it *eliminates* the need for all the marketing. I just write and publish, that's it, and slowly, each month, my work finds more readers. It's very, very relaxing. I love it.
Posted by LDWriter2 (Member # 9148) on :
There is what others have said already. Good writing and storytelling will get around but at the same time that is one reason to not just go with one e-publisher. Get your stuff on all of them...the major ones anyway.
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