I need some advice
I've been working on and off to my book for a few years at this point, next year I'll give up my current job to work from home for fewer hours so I can concentrate on my book, it will still take a 6-7 months because I'm rewritting it and adding things
Will people be intrested? I wanted to make enough money from the first book to justify work on a second and third money is only half of it I want to get people invested in my fiction and offer them a fun adventure.
I'll try to replay to comments
I've known many people who've written books and there are two business models that have had some success.
The first is if the book is a highly specialized technical book. A friend of mine is writing a book on how to run essentially an elder care facility during his layoff and when he networks with people in that space, he's getting a lot of traction to find a new job
The second is people who market the book and solicit feedback from readers via online sharing of parts of it. Essentially you have the fans help you build the story and it'll give you a built-in audience and a way to broadcast and market when the book is complete. It'll also give YOU experience in marketing it, which is huge. Your book success will be only based on the success of your marketing, not the quality of the writing, so make sure you spend lots of $$ and time on that. In fact, for every hour you spend on your book, you should spend at least 3 on your marketing plan.
I'll try and share parts of it online, I'll learn marketing as I go, I already know a few things
thanks for the help
sounds good
Also, forgot to mention, another strategy I've heard of is "spam publishing". It's a dirty tactic but pretty simple especially now with AI being available. Essentially, you just keep generating a bunch of low quality books (like 20-100 a month), keep putting them up on amazon, charge 99 cents for each, and pray to the algorithm gods that someone sees it. But there are a lot of people doing this so to me it sounds like a lot of work for a small amount of money.
But by doing this I completely skip the other half of the reason I'm doing it
I want them to be good stories made by me
I'm asking this because I'm afraid of ai making my book invisible
>has writing threads
pay attention please. OP has told us at least twice that he's interested in writting. Ooops, hes actually intrested.
He should make quite the writter.
give it a big self help angle
that will make sure it sells like hot cakes in this fatherless generation
other than that i bet your writing sucks and you won't even end up on the hilarious section on PrepHole
yeah write that next faster than the speed of love
The publishing industry seems to operate on a cycle of similar genre titles including "hilarious" gen Z picaresque tales.
And funneling academic research into university press titles.
I'm not sure that writing a book to make money is a good idea.
If it's fiction you can write for your own pleasure. If it is a technical/ specialist subject you would need to be a recognised expert in which case you would already be published.
But go for it, enjoy it publish it for free on a blog or idk substack? Is that what people do?
eww disgusting leftoid
>Will people be intrested?
Have you published anything before? I realize this is your first book, but short stories, articles, anything that indicates other people value your writing?
Have you looked into grants you could apply for?
Have you taken any classes in writing? This might be useful just to let others with a similar interest read what you've written.
You’re brining up a lot of yak shaving. Have you read any books recently? No one can write, nor care if they’re catering to an audience. When the facebook/instagram/youtube/tiktok soapbox isn’t enough to satisfy egos, people write books now, despite lacking any inherent quality that would make them privy to being a good writer.