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| "The world is too much with me" is a quote from a Whitman poem. I love the feeling when I'm writing and forget about everything else completely. The problem is when I can't get out of my head the thought that my work may never see the light of day. I want to know how other authors silence that nagging voice in the back of your head that tells you you're really doing this for your own enjoyment. |
| Hello Everyone, it's the neurotic writer again. Something I wanted to share that I'm curious if anyone else can relate to. We all love writing. It's a fantastic rush and it takes you deep into exciting parts of your own psyche. The problem is that in days of yore, writers had agents who would introduce those lovingly crafted stories to the world. Nowadays, it feels like, as Wordsworth once said, "the world is too much with us." With the fiction market glutted and finding representation being harder than ever, we no longer have the luxury of creeping inside our own comfortable imaginations. We're forced to keep one eye on our laptops and one eye at every promotion opportunity that companies dangle in front of us. We're consistently left with an overwhelming feeling of self-doubt, not in the quality of our work, which is where we should be focusing our effort, but in our capacity as salespeople. Personal marketing strategies are not only something we have no training in, but in all likelihood, these venture wouldn't produce the promised results even if we were to orchestrate such strategies effectively. |
| Dear Fellow NaNoWrMo'rs, Even though I'm feeling pretty good about the book I'm working on, I still wanted to find out a little bit about what kind of motivation everyone in here uses to keep pounding. When I'm writing I get so into my story that I'll forget about all the unanswered query letters I keep sending into the void. Then I'll come back to reality and remember I'm the same self-published Kindle author I was before I got so caught up in my make-believe world. I'd like to know what all of you tell yourselves to maintain your productivity in spite of the odds against us all. |
| Dear NaNoWrtrs, hope you're all churning out those pages prodigiously. One thing I've found to be a hugely valuable distraction during this sacred month is blogging. If anyone hasn't added this feature to their site, I'd highly recommend it: https://www.davidtenenbaumwrtr.com/writer-s-blog |
| Help! A magazine that has agreed to review my book wants a press release. Can someone tell me what exactly this entails?? |
| I have never done one, yet anyways. I did pull up this for you. https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/press-release-template-ht |
| I feel like I've done everything the blogs say I should. When my novel wasn't selling, I held promotions and managed to get over 15 reviews of my book. I restarted my Amazon campaign and waited a week to look at my sales. 20 clicks and only 1 purchase of a $.99 book. Please tell me how you all motivate yourself to write when this is the reality of "oh-so-exciting" world of self-publication. I want to keep doing this because I enjoy the process, but sometimes I just feel like Don Quixote wrangling with my storylines when there's really no one out there who'll ever read them:( |
| Of the many ways stories are sold in this economy, two mechanisms seem to move books. There's the oldie-but-goodie. Find an agent who's willing to read millions of words of slush to pluck out a hundred thousand tiny flakes of gold. Then there are the "influencers", e-nomenclature for social media-based trendsetters. Sell one on your brand of blue mud and, one post later, she and all of her followers will be solemnly rubbing it into their navels in the same direction. You can ignore the ones who don't get the concept of a mirror-image. I'm just assuming there actually lives the influencer who reads in a spirit complementary to the one in which we write. Sell or don't sell, we write. |
| I switched over from scripts to novels because I couldn't take the constant insistence by industry opportunists that success was only $25, $50 or $100 away. The fiction world, however, has proved to be only maringally better. With the proliferation of writers today, people are bound to be less well-trained than a previous generation of authors. Does that mean, however, that one is a hack if one fails to edify oneself with the hundreds of classs, seminars and other costly resources that these companies are consistently advertising? |
| Dear Fellow Writers, Please help me combat the scathing bile of someone who feels he's been divinely appointed to sabotage my writing career (the book is free during the promotion). https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Tide-David-Tenenbaum-ebook/product-reviews/B07B9HJQN... |
| Dear Fellow Artists, This question is geared towards those of us involved in the "writing for profit" category of this long and only occasionally fulfilling vocation. Other writers have recommended developing a social media presence through Kindle publishing before approaching agents. Is it advisable to refer a representative to a previouds novel on Amazon or Goodreads that is only hovering around the high 3 mark in ratings? Will any agent laugh at something that hasn't fetched a response well over 4? David |
| Hi again Everybody, As much as I hate to give up my hard earned points (though I really enjoyed reading all of your work), I am currently in the market for an agent and my books are still sitting on Amazon unreviewed. If anyone would be willing to look at either of my novels (or even a portion of them), I'd be willing to gift 25,000 points and a reciprocal read. Please message me if interested. They can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Tide-David-Tenenbaum-ebook/dp/B07B9HJQNW/ref=sr_1_1?... and here: https://www.amazon.com/Night-Worker-David-Tenenbaum-ebook/dp/B07CKJDH32/ref=sr_1... Thanks, David |
| Hey there, Just so you know.. on the left hand side of your page there is a column of options: portfolio, my account, email, etc... About halfway down there is an option Community. If you click on that, it will give you the option to "Request a Review." That will take you to a page full of reviewers for you to shop. I think they list their review style, and price, etc.. Just thought you might find that helpful, and maybe save some of your hard earned GPs. |
| Hi All, I've published two books that I'm hoping a few people here might be able to take a look at. The first is a short crime drama about an exotic dancer framed for a murder: https://www.amazon.com/Night-Worker-David-Tenenbaum-ebook/dp/B07CKJDH32/ref=sr_1... The second one is a disaster novel about a giant tsunami that threatens to destroy the Eastern US and Europe: https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Tide-David-Tenenbaum-ebook/dp/B07B9HJQNW/ref=sr_1_2?... If you'd be willing to review either one of them (and if you'd like me to look at something of yours in return), email me and I'll gift you a copy. Thanks! David |
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