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💎 Jaime Buckley's avatar

I'm late to the original conversation, but the wisdom is evergreen.

Truly, I think serialization may be the missing link to jump past the limited success I've had over the years. My first book alone was on the front page of Amazon in my category for four years. Always in the top 20, ...but few comments, almost no reviews, but sales. I'd have a week when I'd sell 9000+ books (yes, nine thousand books) in 72 hours...but no knowledge why. It would trickle again for weeks, then get another 2K-3K sales over a week. Again, no feedback.

It was...weird.

Goodreads, I received a tad more feedback... but here on Substack the environment is perfectly suited for what I crave, and that's interaction. I'm obsessed with entertaining readers, and you've explained what iI believe I've been missing.

Thank you, Simon, for posting this.

...I'd like to add something, and that's to encourage people to keep writing, despite what experiences you have. So much happens in secret, and you never completely know why some thing happen the way they do.

I am 'nobody' in the way of writers. Most people do not know me and will never know me, but guess what? The money still comes in. My readership still grows over time.

So please don't give up/.

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Binu Sivan's avatar

Hi Simon, thank you for this post. I am planning to serialize my novel, in a couple of months time. Have earmarked this post for rereading.

A quick question - Did you post anything other than the novel during that period?

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