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Originally Posted by roland1
[Ahem] Hey, I'm still in the room. I can hear you talking about me.  |
Yes, I know, but I wasn't really talking to you. I was talking to Turtle, reminding him that envisioning what happens with those hanging-indent line wraps, and seeing it in the wild, are two different things. I mean, hell, kiddo, go ahead and give it a whirl, but remember--make SURE you put the result on a real Kindle or even Kindle Previewer and mess with the font sizes. Don't see it at font size 4 and think," Bingo!"
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[Sigh] However, I sense that I may have to give up this authorship thing altogether and maybe try to get a job in landscaping. I hear it's a field that's wide open with many new opportunities for growth.
(As you can see, I will not be leaving my puns behind.)
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Groan, and I thought I was bad. Remember, when you think about authoring, don't get down in the weeds. ;-)
The authorship thing is good for those who will work. For those who write a book, kerplunk it on KDP and then expect it to rocket to bestsellerdom,
without any help or pushing by the self-publisher, well...those books are destined to die a lonely death on the trash heap, buried under those other Eight Million books on Amazon.
I have customers with 4-6 books who routinely sell $10K month, (and one that sells a crapton more than that), but that's not your typical author. If you're writing for money, you need to really get out and push. (I would say, "don't quit your day job," but I suspect that you've heard that before.) If you're writing because you love it, or because you simply can't NOT write, great, then get out and push just as much as will make you happy, in terms of resulting sales.
One pro tip: a best-selling single book is nearly unheard of. Those that succeed like that (The Martian, 50SOG) do so because their authors cultivated their readership and audience for 1-2 years before the book was released, on a blog or fansite respectively.
Most of my successful authors
have written 3+ books. There really is power in 3, just like they taught us in BSchool. It's a very real thing and if you look on Amazon, for good-selling Indies, you'll almost always find that they've penned and published at least 3 books.
Hitch