I've been procrastinating on the paperback editions that Amazon do. It's print per order which makes it pretty expensive per-book. The cost of-course it put onto the buyer, but thus far no one has purchased the digital edition yet, just read it through Kindle Unlimited and even then it's only a handful.
Despite this, I might go ahead with it. Perhaps that will give the story more credence. As such with this decision, I've decided to go through the whole book with another edit from start to finish. Currently on Chapter 12 and I'm attempting to fix issues that have nagged me. The issue is I have problems with certain types of scene. Action scenes are really difficult. Two people talking, I can do with ease and I can (in my opinion) make it interesting. Action scenes require planning out positions, moves, deflections and a whole lot of descriptive words and times where people move around, I tend to overwrite. The person doesn't need to know how they reached the door, just that they reached it. I don't need to write out every movement. The reader can imagine it.
To move back onto the lack of actual sales, which I very briefly mentioned. I think the issue is two-fold. First, I struggle with summaries and how to make them engaging. The other is that people don't know the book even exists. Even as I write this blog, only one or two people will see it and they (you reading this) probably stumbled on this entirely by accident.
I have pondered telling people in my family that I've written, but with that comes a certain amount of embarrassment. I'm anxious and reserved, and I suppose you could say that to a degree that I'm anti-social, but not in the miserable ruin everyone's day way, but in a quiet don't like talking to people kind of way. It sucks, which is probably why my self-advertising is virtually non-existent. I suppose I should try harder, but that's difficult when one doesn't know how.
Hope you're having a good day.
-Andrew Hallgarth
Wannabe writer and someone who always tries to improve on their writing but always finds it an uphill struggle.
