Debut month…what now?

Last month was debut month. I’d like to say I didn’t check my stats every ten seconds, but who are we kidding? I totally did. I felt joy with every order I saw, but also trepidation because that pesky little friend otherwise known as imposter syndrome settled in and I thought, well what if the person reading this feels it totally sucks and wasn’t worth their money? And then I thought, what if I get a bad review?

I had to tell myself that it’s all part of the game. Much like any product for sale, there will be people who absolutely love it, and some who wont. That has to be okay otherwise maybe this isn’t the right option for me. I choose to believe my skin is thick enough to withstand the bad reviews (should they come but I’m not putting that out there into the Universe)

The hardest part of this whole thing is the marketing and promotion. It’s not easy to be an introverted millennial trying to sell my book. Convince you why you should spend your hard earned money on a novice such as me, convince you that there’s something different about my book than any other in my genre. For me, it’s about sharing my story with others, and hoping they liked it.

So what’s next? You mean aside from the continual navigation of social media I don’t fully understand? Well, more of that, and also making sure my next book (hopefully set to release in January) will be just as great. I think it is, and I hope you will too.