I know, I know, I haven’t posted
anything on here in ages, but I figured I should fill you guys in on what’s
happening with my book.
So, over winter break, I had my
book edited again, this time by the lovely Taren Blankenship who really helped
me out with formatting and everything. I was also really nice to hear an opinion
on it that wasn’t from my family. She was a great help and I really appreciated
her volunteering to edit for me. (If you read this Taren, you’re getting
thanked in the acknowledgements!)
After reading it over another two
times, I feel like it’s ready for publishing, but there still the smallest bit
of doubt in me that doesn’t want to publish it yet.
I really don’t know what it is and
I didn’t have this same problem with my last book, probably because I wasn’t as
serious about it and wanted to publish it really fast just for that sake of
saying that I published a book.
I also really need to publish it
because I started writing the sequel but I realized that I can’t get that much
into it unless I publish the first one.
I think it might be partly because
that I’m afraid what other people will say about it. Considering how much
effort and time I put into this book, I’m just afraid that people will hate it
and give it bad reviews. I know I’m not the best writer in the world and criticism
comes with everything these days, and I’m expecting at least some bad review
for it, but I’m still nervous about people hating it.
I’m also not exactly sure about how
I should go about advertising it once I’m done with it. I’ll admit that more
people know who I am right now than they did when I published my first book,
but still, I’m not sure if anyone will really put forth the money to buy it.
After a lot of thought about
sending it off to indie publishers and literary agents, I decided that I really
don’t want to do that. For me, that’s just really time consuming and it’s just
going to lead to more rejection. I also feel that since I wrote the book, I
want to advertise for it and I want to get the full profit that might come with
it.
So yeah, hopefully The Unusual
Isles will be out and ready for purchase by the time I graduate from high
school. I realize that I was pushing for Christmas time, but I knew in my mind
that that deadline was never going to be met.
So stay tuned and I will definitely
update you guys when I publish it!
~K.M.D.
