Vapormage Launch Weekend Recap
It’s been a weekend. I’ll admit, I was afraid I would release the book to a stony silence, but friends have been supportive and making me go to the post office multiple times. And there have apparently been sales to people I don’t know! I get money from a library sale. It’s very heartening, all the kind words and support.
But then, this is the hard part. Figuring out how to get eyes on this book past its launch, past my existing circle of friends and contacts. I bought ads! Y’all know how much I hate advertising, that’s how badly I want to grow an audience for Vapormage.
I won’t hassle y’all too hard, but of course I will point out how important word-of-mouth is for getting people aware of indie nobodies like me. I have but one mouth. So any reviews, activity on Goodreads, whatever, all of it helps.
What’s next?
I still need to find a day job, first off. That’s been rough. (Doesn’t help that I really don’t want to go back to programming, but nobody can seem to help me find something else. Grumble grumble.)
But the current hope is that there will be a sequel. I’ve mentioned Vicehunter (working title, but I like it) before in this newsletter, and that is still the plan. The plan is also to not take another 6 years to write that one. I haven’t really been writing lately—too much else going on—but I do have a mostly-written version to rebuild into something with a real pitch.
And yes, I dare say: it has a real pitch.
Hopefully I stick with it.