Who here has written a book?
By Fleur
@Fleura (30386)
United Kingdom
November 21, 2024 4:29am CST
I know at least one or two MyLotters have also written other things. Now I’m wondering how many members have written a book? And was it published – if so how, where and by whom? Did you send the manuscript to a publisher in the traditional way? Self publish? Write an e-book? Did you have an agent? Did the book sell? Did you do anything to promote it? If so was it in person or online?
There seem to be many different approaches these days, I just wonder what people have tried and was it a success?
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@AmbiePam (92708)
• United States
5h
My sister wrote three, and she self published them through Amazon. She sold about 500 to 600 copies of each through Amazon, give or take a few. They were sort of like from her blogging, and people told her she ought to put them in book form. She talked about it on Facebook, which led to several Christian speaking engagements and small women’s conferences after people read them. I don’t think she bothered sending them to a publisher or agent, but she probably should.
I’d buy yours if you wrote it. I don’t care what it would be about.
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@marguicha (222974)
• Chile
2h
I wrote and published in my native language. I wrote short stories. A couple of them were translated and went to anthologies in English. But I am not writing fiction anymore.
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@Tampa_girl7 (50249)
• United States
2h
As a child and in my teens I wrote poems and short stories. I never tried to publish.
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@LooeyVille (66)
• United States
5h
I've written 8 books and all of them were published through a traditional publisher, who unfortunately is now out of business. I sent manuscripts to publisher. They provided marketing assistance. I promoted myself heavily doing book signings and online marketing. I sold about 5,000 copies total of the 8 books.
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@Fleura (30386)
• United Kingdom
4h
@LooeyVille That's a great selection! Are you writing more?
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@LooeyVille (66)
• United States
4h
@Fleura They were a Christian publisher I found online. Two were children's picture books (they provided the illustrations), two were non-fiction Christian books, one was travel book (nonfiction), one was a thriller/horror fiction book and one was a nonfiction book about hoarding and my mother and how it affected my life.
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@porwest (90809)
• United States
2h
I have written books. Some were published. Others were not. The ones that were I am secretive about them. One book was published by a publisher back in the day, but it was an anthology that I edited as Ivan S. Graves called Dark Whispers, which is still on Amazon, but no longer available after the original publisher sold to Mundania Press, and now Mundania Press is out of business. For several years I was founder of and editor of a popular online monthly (utlimately bimonthly) magazine called FrightNet. I also wrote the foreword for Grue Tales which was a short story collection by R.K. Finnell.
I will say this. Books can be hard to sell, especially if one is not known, and even harder when they are self-published, but that being said, self-publishing has become way more recognized now than it used to be.
When I put together Dark Whispers I had very deep connections with other famous authors in the horror genre, and of course FrightNet was a VERY popular magazine and that helped too.
