I just read a wonderful article on writers becoming "discovered" over on Hugh Howey's blog. Hugh gives advice to budding authors on what they should be doing to get discovered. It was a solid dish of meat and potatoes.
What I took away from my initial read (and I will be reading it again) is a writer needs to write and he or she needs to write books. It's the backlist, the quantity of titles that is paramount in getting "discovered". Because once you are discovered, the reader will want to read more than that one book that is out there. I know it works for me that way. When I discovered the Nero Wolfe mysteries, I was like a wild man -- I had to read them all. Then I had to buy them all.
The other thing I took away was to write in a popular genre, if you want to ease the way to being discovered.
So I am going to continue trying to figure out the social media game (I'm that guy at the party standing by the wall, near the punch bowl). But the bulk of my time is going to be spent on writing all those great novels I've wanted to write for the past 50 years.
Check out Hugh's post and let me know what you think.
[Originally published 14 November 2014 on www.cwhawes.com.]
What I took away from my initial read (and I will be reading it again) is a writer needs to write and he or she needs to write books. It's the backlist, the quantity of titles that is paramount in getting "discovered". Because once you are discovered, the reader will want to read more than that one book that is out there. I know it works for me that way. When I discovered the Nero Wolfe mysteries, I was like a wild man -- I had to read them all. Then I had to buy them all.
The other thing I took away was to write in a popular genre, if you want to ease the way to being discovered.
So I am going to continue trying to figure out the social media game (I'm that guy at the party standing by the wall, near the punch bowl). But the bulk of my time is going to be spent on writing all those great novels I've wanted to write for the past 50 years.
Check out Hugh's post and let me know what you think.
[Originally published 14 November 2014 on www.cwhawes.com.]
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