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I decided to self-publish after reading several agent and publisher blogs which stated that as a small author I would be expected to do my own marketing. Well, geez, if that's the case, then why was I bothering looking for a publisher when I could just use Smashwords and KDP?
Whatever skills I have as a writer, I have even less as a marketer. Still, one of my four self-published e-books does pretty well, and I get some sales of the other e-books every month. The key seems to be writing something people might actually want to read. And Amazon does a good job of helping people find that book once it starts to sell.
I'm writing a novella at the moment. Talk about marketing hell. Too short for a novel; too long for a short story. Nobody wants to deal with them. Oy! But you have to write what you have to write, and this is a story I believe in, so I'll put it out there and let it join all the other teardrops in the ocean.
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