Good bit of writing advice I saw today, along the lines of "if no one wants to beta/pre-read your book: the premise sucks." Painful truth, there. Always accounting that friends/followers may not be your market, but a good sign to maybe just get to work on the next one. - ThreadSky

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randypacker.bsky.social • 7 days ago

Good bit of writing advice I saw today, along the lines of "if no one wants to beta/pre-read your book: the premise sucks."

Painful truth, there. Always accounting that friends/followers may not be your market, but a good sign to maybe just get to work on the next one.

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randypacker.bsky.social•7 days ago

Or at least, don't spend any money on the current on.
For me, specifically? That means the novel I'm currently in re-writes on I'm just going to consider it dead in the water. I'll put it up for sale, get a decent cover, but the two follow-up novels, partially written? I'll just put those to bed.

randypacker.bsky.social•7 days ago

Hopefully in the future I can find a better angle to tell the story from, and make that fictional world come to life. But for now? Going to focus my time on other novels.

Tough business, but everything is a lesson to learn from.

joycereynoldsward.bsky.social•7 days ago

Maybe. And there can be other factors such as timing involved, or workloads of your betas and friends, and so on. I've done beta swaps where someone committed then just couldn't follow through. I wouldn't judge the quality of your own work based on being able to get betas.

randypacker.bsky.social•7 days ago

A good point. It's also possible that I just haven't found the right way to talk about my work. And most likely that I am just speaking to a too-small audience.

I told myself I'd learn/practice marketing when I hit five books published. Almost there.

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