The Author Guy by Larry B. Gildersleeve (Sept 18, 2024)
18 th September 2024 Hello out there, Welcome back. I think we’ve all experienced the low hanging fruit of sports analogies to explain or justify all manner of unrelated activity. I heard an interesting one just the other day from a friend of mine – one I thought was worth sharing. We met for coffee because he wanted my input on his first effort at writing then publishing a work of fiction. The conversation, and reading the first draft of his manuscript, took me back eleven years to when I was where he is now before I published four novels and have completed a fifth one yet-to-be-published. The conversation inevitably turned to where he could get help marketing and selling his book. I was as candid as I could be about the frustrations encountered in this area by virtually every author, whether indie or mainstream, novice or established. And I confessed significant commercial success for me remains elusive. He responded with a sports analogy, saying that likely tens of thousands of...