Novella-big ol' fat check mark! Done! Yay! ~Sweet as Candy~ has been completed and is being proofed and reviewed and I'm excited for its future. I'm not going to lie...I had my OWN serious doubts about the novella itself. I have a hard time believing that I can get a full story crammed into such a little word count BUT I think I just may have done it! When I read I like a BOOK a big, fat, hard...what was I talking about? OH! A book! I don't want no short, short book. I like 'em long. Nothing worse than thinking you are getting a full length one and once you start you find out-kidding its a mini! BOOKS PEOPLE! As a avid amazon customer I download with the best of them but sometimes get tricked into buying what I think is a novel only to find out its a measly little 4,000 word short story. I paid $3 for that? Never, never again I say! A week later....sh*t I paid $1.99 for a 3,500 short?
I didn't want people having these reactions to my novella so no matter how hard I tried to tell myself that if I posted word count and was honest they would no what they were getting into. Can't do it! I just can't! I want readers to know I want to give them a good story at a fair price.
I read this article the other day saying new indie authors need to have; a short story, novella, novel, boxed set and there was another thing-which I can't remember....great now I'm going to fail! Anyways, it said to have new product aka written work out there every 30 days. Ummmm....how in the hell am I supposed to do that? I wish I wrote 20,000 words a day but sorry to disappoint I tend to type around 2,000-5,000 on days when I'm feeling chatty. I have no doubt there are authors out there that can do it. I mean I just saw Jasinda Wilder has a treadmill she can walk on while she types...I can barely walk while chewing gum. Not trying to be funny there...it's true. I am trying my hand at the novella idea and I'm coming around to love the idea of the Crooked E Ranch series but I'm not sure i could ever publish a short story or a collection of them. I'm all over the novel part but I'm planning on hopefully releasing 2 a year not one every 30 days. Boxed set? I'm game BUT you have to have enough to make a boxed set. So, here I stand again...reading, attempting to follow advice from fellow authors but yet again I have to twist and turn everything to work for me. I know, I know that's not how it's supposed to work but what the hell call me a pathfinder or a trailblazer-ohhh I like that one! Makes it sound like I'm doing something amazing instead of trying to attempt this without being a failure.
I've been social networking my lil' heart out...I've come to hate the word Tweet and my left eye starts twitching when I read the word "status" but I'm doing it! Yet, I see my sales rank number slowly getting worse. Less and less people are downloading ~Quick on the Trigger~ but what do I expect right? It's been downloaded thousands of times and hopefully word of mouth will keep it moving somewhat and that takes time. I've come to accept that it's time to move on. Let ~Quick on the Trigger~ wonder freely through the big bad world of published works and move forward with my life...as an author. Move onto the 2nd novel in the DIRTY DENIM series ~Steel Horse Cowboy~ not just writing but promoting, pushing basically pimping. As well as pimping my novella ~Sweet As Candy~. Time to move on but like an crazy ex I can't help looking back, I can't help spying on sales rank, I can't help stalking Google I can't help trying to bait ~Quick on the Trigger~ into becoming a runaway success through bloggers, pages, reviewers, Ect.
~Sweet as Candy~ has been MAN approved! I love that! Women, we tend to thrive on the written word like a lifeline. Men-not so much. Now, now, calm down! Not all men but the kind I'm talking about. The kind of men who are doers, physical worker bees, alpha tendencies-at least some. There is something special when I get one of those kind and they like my work. I write erotic romance so a I take "gave me a hard on" or "that was f*ckin' hot" as a major compliment. Where most women praise the storyline or characters the men tend to praise the scenes or the banter. That's good, that's exactly what I want. I want a book the wifey can read and then hand over and hubby likes it to-who wouldn't want that?
Novel-conquered, novella-conquering, social media-I got that sh*t covered, blogging-work in progress...next adventure in self pubbing? (Insert theme from Jaws here-hello, shark week people!). Next adventure for Miss Sidda Lee Rain to attempt...BLOG TOUR! Yep, a frickin' blog tour!?!? Me and a blog tour...perhaps this is the one I won't succeed at, maybe it's the one I'll fall flat on my face on but I as I walk through the valley of the shadow of...okay maybe that's a little "quick on the trigger" (see what I did there?) like everything I'm going to research and ask a million questions and drive everyone crazy I figured or I could just set it up with an outside vendor. That sounds perfect! Someone who knows what they are doing! Someone who tells me what I need to write about and to who, what I need to send, what to sign...oh yeah sounds perfect! Now...to find the right vendor? Sh*t and to think I once thought I'll just "toss it up on amazon"!
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