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Six months after Harold published his first book, his writers’ group still hadn’t consoled him for his failure to sell a single copy. And that was after encouraging him during the three years it took to produce his 32 page children’s story. And funding his Kickstarter project to pay for an illustrator, and, when that failed, buying shares against sales to hire an artist.
Sure, they only gave him $50, and the illustrations were retreads from an already published project, but group members wrote off their loss and urged him to move on to another book.
“Harold, every successful author considers the first book their learning book,” said Charmaine Spencer, the group’s only member who made money and author of the Atlantis Aliens series which lead Amazon’s paranormal extraterrestrial transgender romance thrillers sales category.
“Indie publishing is hard,” Sharon told him.
“It’s hard to find the SEO algorithm to attract readers,” Joss said.
“Harold, every successful author considers the first book their learning book,” said Charmaine Spencer, the group’s only member who made money and author of the Atlantis Aliens series which lead Amazon’s paranormal extraterrestrial transgender romance thrillers sales category.
They could have told him the truth, but Harold was so sensitive. Especially whenever a member suggested that Petals and Fangs a book about flowers that ate children and spit out their bones night not be a book mothers of three-to-six-year-olds would buy.
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Wry noir author Phillip T. Stephens wrote Cigerets, Guns & Beer, Raising Hell, the Indie Book Award winning Seeing Jesus, and the children’s book parody Furious George. Follow him at Phillip T Stephens.
