7. What is the hardest part of being a self-published author?
Marketing, marketing and perhaps marketing. The whole social media thing has been the steepest learning curve for me. A curve I'm still climbing. Keeping going when sales are not coming is hard and needs great self-belief. I've not really pushed hard yet. I have deliberately held back until the reissue of the back catalogue is complete. I'm having some professional films done now.
When they are finished and on YouTube, I plan a big push, concentrating on The Prairie Companions, which I consider my best work and perhaps the most accessible.
8. What are you working on at the moment?
I am working on a series of novellas. The first: Leotie Flower of the Prairie. (Time travel romance ???) is out. The next: Animal (Erotic romance.) will be out at the end of August.
Skellig Testament (Historical Fiction) is being written now and has been inspired by a visit to the Skellig islands off the Kerry coast. There is a monastery there, atop a rock in a wild ocean. I began to speculate about what drives people to such extremes. So I'm working on a first person story set in the year 650 about a young man who joins a religious order. I'm exploring why he chooses that isolated ascetic life.
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