The first book I published was titled: "The To Nowhere Train" and it was self-published on amazon.com back in October of 2012. The book was actually inspired by a dream that I had, and I had several other family members help me write it. It was in the genre of Science Fiction/Paranormal.
The book as I stated in my previous blog entry had a cover that I would classify today as awful. In fact, I wish I could display the cover to you here, but I deleted it. Anyway, the book basically failed as far as I was concerned. It never really found an audience and the few people who did read it was few and far between. The book received (2) 4-star ratings; (1) 3-star ratings; (1) 2- star ratings, and (1) 1-star rating. At this particular time, I didn't quite like those ratings, and I have to admit I almost gave up on publishing anything else to the Internet. I have to also admit here that I have since unpublished this book from amazon.com. Now, was this the end of my writing career - NO! I went on to find a whole other group of people who were having the same problem with their own self-publishing, so in the end, I found out I wasn't alone in this.
I realized that I needed to do more research, and I needed to do more studying about the writing market at hand. I'm going to admit here that this was an extremely hard time for me. I mean, after all, I just wanted to write my stories and share them with other people, and I was finding this harder with every day that passed. I have to admit once again, that I almost gave up a second time. I remember screaming and pulling my hair out at this time.If you are a writing reading this article and having a hard time like I've just described up above, I'm sure you can probably relate to what I am saying here. But, as a writer, I knew that I couldn't give up because writing and creating a story was too much in my blood. So even if I walked away from my writing for a time, I always found myself going back to it in the end.
I knew in the end, that I had to keep writing and persevering because I knew that some well-known author also had their roadblocks in the beginning, and today they are highly successful. One, in particular, is Stephen King (the amazing horror/thriller author). He had many a failure books in the beginning but look at his success today. I knew I needed to remind myself of these types of authors. I mean, even J.K. Rowling's had many literary agents turn down "Harry Potter" in the beginning before she finally found someone to represent what ended up being a million dollar winner.
Anyway, although I have not republished "The To Nowhere Train" as of this date, I still am working on this book. When it does get republished you can bet that the book cover will be amazing, and I've also decided to give the book a new title that I think suits it better called: "Beyond the Mysterious Red Door". And, of course, since all of this, I have gone on to publish other books.
In my next blog article, I am going to discuss the writing market and the genre that I write in.
So Stay Tuned!
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