[ SECRET POST #3588 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3588 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

There's something missing from this secret

[(Anonymous)]

It sounds like there's something missing from this equation. Maybe you didn't market or announce properly, OP, or you have a tiny fandom? How many friends are we talking, here? Are you well liked in the fandom, or do you occasionally say or do something that really pisses people off (I speak as someone who does this. I'm pretty outspoken on my beliefs in canon). Did you, like someone suggested, go from writing slash in a totally slash environment to writing romantic het? Did you describe the book in such a way that would turn people off completely?

Because there is no way in an average-sized fandom a friendly fan who had been supported in their endeavors would only sell 3 copies of their first novel.

Something is missing.

Re: There's something missing from this secret

[crossy_woad]

Eh, it can happen. My first book that I excitedly told fandom friends about did really, really poorly, even though people were encouraging during the whole process. (At least nobody said what they did to the OP to me. They were just supportive generally.) Basically if you can't find an audience, your book can really, really do poorly. And that audience probably won't be fandom friends (although it would be nice if they didn't pretend it was going to be, either).

Re: There's something missing from this secret

[(Anonymous)]

Ok, now I get why you seem super defensive/over-identifying with OP. It sucks that your book did poorly and I'm really sorry. It hurts and is hard to come back from. But for what it's worth I'm sure you will. Keep the faith.

Re: There's something missing from this secret

[crossy_woad]

Nah, that was a long time ago. It's all fine. You learn a lot from each new project, and things can be worth writing whether people buy them or not :) But I'd have been pretty hurt if my friends did that kind of thing, I think.

Re: There's something missing from this secret

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sorry about that and the hurt you had from it. I'm glad you learned and still have love for your projects.

Re: There's something missing from this secret

[(Anonymous)]

DA

for the record Crossy, I don't think you're being over defensive or over identifying. I'm sitting on my hands here. Publishing isn't easy and it is a learning process. Thanks for being so supportive of the self-publishing people.

Re: There's something missing from this secret

[crossy_woad]

thanks :)

Re: There's something missing from this secret

[(Anonymous)]

...are you OP?

Re: There's something missing from this secret

[(Anonymous)]

I'm guessing so with how invested they are and how they won't accept other viewpoints.