Writerly Ways

I had things I wanted to talk about here but the last few weeks have eaten them up entirely. How about you have this instead, some of Jana's news including being translated into Korean and some reference pictures for Arrigo Giancarlo, my Vegas vampire who lives in that Veer Tower condo I showed this week. Find it here

I think I'm still struggling with a few things in terms of getting noticed. The one thing that would really probably help is if I wrote contemporary novels. Those are apparently the biggest sellers in the LGBT romance world. Sadly, that helps me not at all because I have next to no interest in that and I could surely not write anything worth the reading in that.

Oddly enough I belong to a FB group Queer SF and in just a couple months we're up to over 1000 members. You wouldn't think SF/Fantasy/Urban Fantasy would be such a hard sell. I do know two authors who are doing fantastic with it in my publishing house but as a whole it's not what seems to be setting the readers on fire. I find that disappointing.

Not as disappointing as realizing that Snowbound was printed 5 years ago and in all that time not only am I not selling particularly well, I can't even really get the attention of my fellow authors. Case in point three of us put up the Korea news yesterday, we all have many of the same friends in common. The other two got that post blown up. Me? just two friends in real life said a word.

This is a humbling thing. It also puts me back in high school when I felt desperate to get people to notice me but no one ever did. I feel like that insurance commercial with the 'invisible woman.'

The worst part is I'm not sure Soldiers of the Sun will do anything to turn that around. Historical urban fantasy menage? yeah, not a huge market for that.

It's one of the reasons I'm failing about so hard to get Blood Red Roulette done. Vampires, as saturated as the market is, still sell. At least I hope so. I'm still shuddering at one I read that did so well it's into audio book sales (I barely made it through it.) Ah jealousy you are a bitch.

And when you read all the how-to market books thing I am doing what they say to do. I'm NOT doing the bad things. So at least I can say I'm TRYING to do the right thing.

Yearly Word Count -

28936 / 110000
(26.31%)

Goals for the week - Work on Blood Red Roulette and edit a chapter of Beneath the Torn Sky for my writers group. Anything else will be gravy.