Last year I published my first novel, Crossed Identity, via Create Space as a print on demand and as an Amazon and Kobo E-book.
I have tried to market the book, via this blog and Facebook but have sadly had few sales, which is strange as I have over 300 Facebook “friends.” Maybe they are not interested in thrillers, or have missed my posts, or are just not interested, When I look on Amazon the book does not appear in new publications even if I am quite specific about it, I only find it when I type in the actual title. Frankly it’s all a bit disappointing.
I want to get on with more writing and had planned a sequel but there doesn’t seem a lot of point now, especially a sequel. So what do I do? How do I motivate myself to put in all the effort of writing a book if no one will read it, it seems a pointless exercise.
Of course I should be more positive, this one may not have found its audience but another may, there must be thousands of writers in the same situation who are getting on with it. believing their next work will be the one breaks it but I am a realist.
Right, moan over, forget pragmatism, back to typing the master work that I started twenty five years ago and will be hailed the greatest novel of the 21st century!
In the meantime if you haven’t got it, get a copy of Crossed Identity. NOW!
Geoffrey Odds 