With my previous series, I played the query game but it never yielded any success. This time, rather than go through that fun time first, I decided to try out the Kindle Scout program because I thought it would be less stressful. Oh how wrong I was.
I'm not very good with self-promotion which this platform completely relies on to get noticed. It doesn't matter if I am proud of my book, and everyone I give a copy to tells me that I should publish it. I always have my doubts, especially with my previous experience of being turned down many, many times. I can handle rejection, and criticism, but it does take it's toll after a while and makes me leery about trying again. While I try to tell myself that many successful authors were rejected more than a handful of times before they managed to break into the business and that if I keep at it I will get there. A few days ago I started a thunderclap to try to help my book go viral in an attempt to become more noticed.
So here I am, day 12 with 7 days straight without being in H&T and I can't help but feel a little discouraged. I think the main discouragement comes from my friends and family on Facebook and how most don't even acknowledge that I had sent them a message. Some of them have, and offered praise for putting myself out there, nominated me and shared my posts, and for those I am so grateful, but the rest have made me feel like some invisible oddity not worth their time. I'm not mad in the least, but I am grateful for the kindness and support of strangers.
My mommy-in-law took over today, scouting out other avenues which I hadn't been able to do. She and my hubby are my rocks. Whenever I feel like just throwing in the towel they pick me up. Doing a grad program, having 3 full-time kids, and trying to market 2 campaigns is exhausting.
I'm not very good with self-promotion which this platform completely relies on to get noticed. It doesn't matter if I am proud of my book, and everyone I give a copy to tells me that I should publish it. I always have my doubts, especially with my previous experience of being turned down many, many times. I can handle rejection, and criticism, but it does take it's toll after a while and makes me leery about trying again. While I try to tell myself that many successful authors were rejected more than a handful of times before they managed to break into the business and that if I keep at it I will get there. A few days ago I started a thunderclap to try to help my book go viral in an attempt to become more noticed.
So here I am, day 12 with 7 days straight without being in H&T and I can't help but feel a little discouraged. I think the main discouragement comes from my friends and family on Facebook and how most don't even acknowledge that I had sent them a message. Some of them have, and offered praise for putting myself out there, nominated me and shared my posts, and for those I am so grateful, but the rest have made me feel like some invisible oddity not worth their time. I'm not mad in the least, but I am grateful for the kindness and support of strangers.
My mommy-in-law took over today, scouting out other avenues which I hadn't been able to do. She and my hubby are my rocks. Whenever I feel like just throwing in the towel they pick me up. Doing a grad program, having 3 full-time kids, and trying to market 2 campaigns is exhausting.