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So do any of you vaguely recall my first foray into self publishing? A whopper of a book called Amrin the Dreamer? Yeah, so, here I am thinking I'd washed my hands of that book and would probably never look at it again. Then, over the past few days, I find myself thinking about that book quite a bit. I come to realize that, despite my impatience and naivety where my writing talents were concerned getting me to publish Amrin waaaaaaay sooner than I should have, I still love the story. It's still a good plot with good characters. And, hey, it's possible it might be salvageable.
So now I'm re-editing it with the plan to republish it. And, thank goodness, my brother - who helped me set up my LuLu account where the book is published - kept my LuLu password. I have everything I need for Amrin's relaunch.
The thing about Armin was that while it was a good story, the writing itself was a mess (seriously, the first sentence alone has a glaring grammar mistake that made me physically ill. I can't believe I published something that needed so much work done). I wrote it back during that age when you think you have natural writing talent and that you don't need no stinkin' editors, then wondering why the heck my book wasn't selling. My word I was an idjit back then. And, yet, despite the horrible dialogue and terrible sentence structure, I still love the dang story to bits. It's a sweet story - very Charles Dickens meets Lord of the Rings, only heavy on the Dickens aspect, especially at the beginning (the things I put my main protagonist through *shakes head*. If you thought my fanfic were angsty, they've got nothing on Amrin).
But Amrin is also a young adult novel, and lately I've been getting the feeling that I should probably publish another YA novel before publishing my current adult novel. For one, it would mean having three books under my belt (four if I decide to divide Amrin into two books, which I may have to end up doing - I wasn't kidding when I said it was a whopper, and I seem to be adding more to it than taking away) and for another... I just keep getting the strong impression that I need to establish myself a little more as a YA writer before publishing an adult novel. Or, perhaps, it's more about establishing what kind of writer I am. Because though I've said it before I'll say it again - the only real difference between my YA stuff and my adult stuff is the age of the protagonists. Other than that, there really isn't anything about my adult stuff that would make it unsuitable for the YA crowd. Except maybe violence but, well... Amrin. A rather large chunk of the book is about the abuse he suffers (Dickens would be proud of me).
Either way, my game plan is now to get Amrin published first and my adult novel second. Now the only question still bugging me is whether to keep Amrin on LuLu or retire it there and move it to Amazon. moving it to Amazon would mean being able to sell it at a cheaper price and make it available for Kindle, plus I would have all my books in one place.
Keeping it on LuLu, however, it would eventually end up on Amazon, anyway, plus people have the choice of a hardback or paperback, and although it wouldn't end up on Kindle it would end up on Nook, as well as on Barnes and Noble's site. However, it would cost more :/
Decisions, decisions. But Amrin's going to take a while to edit so I've got time to figure it out.
So now I'm re-editing it with the plan to republish it. And, thank goodness, my brother - who helped me set up my LuLu account where the book is published - kept my LuLu password. I have everything I need for Amrin's relaunch.
The thing about Armin was that while it was a good story, the writing itself was a mess (seriously, the first sentence alone has a glaring grammar mistake that made me physically ill. I can't believe I published something that needed so much work done). I wrote it back during that age when you think you have natural writing talent and that you don't need no stinkin' editors, then wondering why the heck my book wasn't selling. My word I was an idjit back then. And, yet, despite the horrible dialogue and terrible sentence structure, I still love the dang story to bits. It's a sweet story - very Charles Dickens meets Lord of the Rings, only heavy on the Dickens aspect, especially at the beginning (the things I put my main protagonist through *shakes head*. If you thought my fanfic were angsty, they've got nothing on Amrin).
But Amrin is also a young adult novel, and lately I've been getting the feeling that I should probably publish another YA novel before publishing my current adult novel. For one, it would mean having three books under my belt (four if I decide to divide Amrin into two books, which I may have to end up doing - I wasn't kidding when I said it was a whopper, and I seem to be adding more to it than taking away) and for another... I just keep getting the strong impression that I need to establish myself a little more as a YA writer before publishing an adult novel. Or, perhaps, it's more about establishing what kind of writer I am. Because though I've said it before I'll say it again - the only real difference between my YA stuff and my adult stuff is the age of the protagonists. Other than that, there really isn't anything about my adult stuff that would make it unsuitable for the YA crowd. Except maybe violence but, well... Amrin. A rather large chunk of the book is about the abuse he suffers (Dickens would be proud of me).
Either way, my game plan is now to get Amrin published first and my adult novel second. Now the only question still bugging me is whether to keep Amrin on LuLu or retire it there and move it to Amazon. moving it to Amazon would mean being able to sell it at a cheaper price and make it available for Kindle, plus I would have all my books in one place.
Keeping it on LuLu, however, it would eventually end up on Amazon, anyway, plus people have the choice of a hardback or paperback, and although it wouldn't end up on Kindle it would end up on Nook, as well as on Barnes and Noble's site. However, it would cost more :/
Decisions, decisions. But Amrin's going to take a while to edit so I've got time to figure it out.
