You are pretty much correct on that. But I believe that with very few exceptions writers want to be read, otherwise why would they write? So would I love for one of my books to be a bestseller? Hell yeah. Am I too lazy to work for that dream? Also yeah. You see I don’t need the money so I don’t see myself putting in what I believe would be a monumental effort to succeed, possibly only to fail anyway. I chatted with a guy on Goodreads who had had some success. If I remember correctly he had published over 30 things and even won some awards but couldn’t really make a living at it. I think this is a far more likely outcome than a bestseller. So I’m ok with not being the next Steven King. But I do long for more than 4 sales.
In fact, I set a rule for myself, that if a book had 1000 sales, I would pay for some marketing and put it in audio format. You see my sister has not read my books because she has some eye problems that makes it difficult for her to read, but she devours audio books.
I don’t actually care for series, which seems to be the way things are now. I find that by the time a series gets old it has strayed so far from what I liked in the first book that I’m no longer interested but at the same time I don’t want to read the same old, same old. I don’t think I really care for anything beyond about a trilogy.
So my books are all stand alone sci-fi stories.
Book 1 is about a salvage ship that answers a distress call and has a really bad time with the military ship controlling the area.
Book 2 is about colonists settling down on a new utopian planet and suddenly encountering some issues with the local wildlife. Issues that could effect the entire human race.
Book 3 is essentially about human trafficking in space. People looking for legitimate employment, are pressed into service breaking space ships that have reached the end of service.
Book 4 is a love story between a white collar crime investigator and a world class genetic engineer. It takes place with the backdrop of a very secretive alien race that has taken up residence in our asteroid belt to harvest the riches of an ateroid to trade with earth.
You are pretty much correct on that. But I believe that with very few exceptions writers want to be read, otherwise why would they write? So would I love for one of my books to be a bestseller? Hell yeah. Am I too lazy to work for that dream? Also yeah. You see I don’t need the money so I don’t see myself putting in what I believe would be a monumental effort to succeed, possibly only to fail anyway. I chatted with a guy on Goodreads who had had some success. If I remember correctly he had published over 30 things and even won some awards but couldn’t really make a living at it. I think this is a far more likely outcome than a bestseller. So I’m ok with not being the next Steven King. But I do long for more than 4 sales.
In fact, I set a rule for myself, that if a book had 1000 sales, I would pay for some marketing and put it in audio format. You see my sister has not read my books because she has some eye problems that makes it difficult for her to read, but she devours audio books.
I don’t actually care for series, which seems to be the way things are now. I find that by the time a series gets old it has strayed so far from what I liked in the first book that I’m no longer interested but at the same time I don’t want to read the same old, same old. I don’t think I really care for anything beyond about a trilogy.
So my books are all stand alone sci-fi stories.
Book 1 is about a salvage ship that answers a distress call and has a really bad time with the military ship controlling the area.
Book 2 is about colonists settling down on a new utopian planet and suddenly encountering some issues with the local wildlife. Issues that could effect the entire human race.
Book 3 is essentially about human trafficking in space. People looking for legitimate employment, are pressed into service breaking space ships that have reached the end of service.
Book 4 is a love story between a white collar crime investigator and a world class genetic engineer. It takes place with the backdrop of a very secretive alien race that has taken up residence in our asteroid belt to harvest the riches of an ateroid to trade with earth.