![]() ![]() Way too long for a commercial paperback horror thriller. My first draft of Malice was 130 thousand words. I'd written two children's fantasy books previously, so I wasn't a complete babe in the woods, but I wasn't all that far off. My memory's a touch foggy on how long it took me to write, but let's just say 6 months to come up with a first draft. If I haven't gone over my history with the novel I'll try and do it briefly here. ![]() ![]() That was one of the reasons I opted for the self-published route with Malice. Unless you were one of the top guns, your cut of the advertising budget might get you bus fair into town. ![]() With the way the publishing business has been going these last few years, authors were expected to pretty much market their own books anyway. Stage three: getting the word out, is by far the most difficult, but it's also possibly the most rewarding. Anyone who read my 'Crunch Time' post can attest to that. Stage two was just downright stressful: getting everything in shape for my Amazon launch. I won't get into too much detail here, suffice it to say that writing and editing the book was tough. When I finally sat down to write the book, I had very little idea what I was getting myself into. You'll have to trust me when I say I was relieved to wake up from that one. An old woman with long crooked fingernails was crawling after me on the floor. ![]()
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