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5 Stages

Many of you may know that I released a new book a few days ago.  Now, I’m not a VIA (that’s Very Important Author) like Tara Sivec or Jasinda Wilder.  I am a BIA (that’s Baby Indie Author.)  Okay, so I’m making this shit up as I go, shut up!

Moving on.  So, I released, Bite Me, my new paranormal romance that is part drama, part danger, and a lot of comedy.  I’ve gotten some very good reviews, some great reviews, and a couple 2 star ratings (I’ll live, thanks).  In the last 5 days, I have experienced a huge range of emotions and some crazy thoughts.  Okay, nuttier than usual, since it’s pretty insane in my brain most days.

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Here’s what I’ve decided.  Authors go through 5 stages when they release a book.  It’s probably just me in this group of ‘authors’ but for the sake of my delusions, let’s pretend it’s all authors.

Stage 1: The Download Yay!  It’s downloaded.  It’s done.  The book is on its way to the hot little hands of my thousands (or, in my case, hundreds) of readers.

Stage 2: Goodreads Okay, I’ve downloaded info on my book to Goodreads.  Then cringing when I see that only my five closest friends and my sister-in-law have added it.

Stage 3: The Blog TourIt’s hard to find bloggers with time to do your tour.  I know most of them have tons of review requests and day jobs on top of it.  It happens. If they do post, I spend half the day adding links to their websites on all my social media accounts because I’m OCD like that.

Stage 4: Sales– Now I start obsessively checking the sales reports (that’s my OCD again) on all the distribution websites.  I sold 50 books in 1 day! Yay!  Then I don’t sell another book for over 24 hours so I fall into a bottle of wine one night and wake up with the hang over from hell the next day to see I’ve sold another 100 copies!  Yay again!  Well, I whisper it this time….I do have a fucking hang over, people!

Stage 5: Rinse and Repeat– The book has been out a week.  Time to start writing another book.

Now, it sounds like I’m whining here.  And I totally am.  But I would never consider NOT doing it.  You know, there comes a time when every author asks themselves, Why in the hell am I doing this to myself?  Simple.  Because I love to tell stories.  I must tell stories.  Sharing them with the public is a wonderful part of that process.  Whether I have 1 reader or 1 million, I will still tell stories because I love it and it makes me so happy when others love my stories too.

Now, it’s a Wednesday, aka Hump Day, so go forth and hump something!

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  1. Susie Susie

    Hi C.C. I just finished reading Bite Me. I enjoyed very much. Sometimes I am leery of reading books by new authors, but I took a chance with yours and am glad I did. Thank you so much for being a writer. I am hoping to get more in the series. Can’t wait to see if Ivie and the girls get their own hotties.

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