Refocusing, Resetting and Re-centering
A pretty good rule of thumb when you’re publishing your first novella is to have a robust marketing plan. Have a ton of resources ready to go, be ready to talk about your book until your voice is raw and scratchy and champion your new work on every social media platform imaginable. It is not a time to disappear from the face of the earth, make major life changes or re-evaluate a huge component of your identity.
But who am I to do things the right way?
Lessons In Publishing a Novella
It’s been a little over a month since the release of The Light Keeper; the short story that became a novella that sort of swept me up and demanded to be published. I started writing in July, and expected it to be about six thousand words. By the end it was about three times as long, was being edited by a team of three and was being released on Amazon Kindle. Somehow, this story rooted itself into my heart and grew as an entity of its own.