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What's Your Biggest Challenge with Your Book?

I'd be interested to learn what authors/publishers on this network think their biggest challenges are with their book. I wonder if there's any common, pervasive challenge we all face.

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I'd be honoured but couldn't ask you to send me your one last copy. Just email it to me at info@sarahbutland.com and I should be able to get to it next week.

Thank you for the compliment - words like that can come to me any time but were needed right now :)
Just remember Sarah, you are special and so am I and everbody else. Keep those good vibes going and thanks again. It may all end once you have reviewed my book. Will email it today. Mark.
I received your book and will still think you're special, always will cherish the connection we've made.
Just touching base(whoops very American for an englishman). Be gentle with this author when reviewing his first book. No problems, imagine you are very busy at times. Hope all is well with you. Mark.
I have my own site (just google my name) and use it for my own writing relief. I don't focus on a beginning, middle and end that all makes sense, I just let myself loose to get quick blurbs out.

The trouble I find is now spending all my time marketing looking for that "one big break" and not enough time writing.

Whoever said writing was easy didn't dream to be an author, huh?
This discussion has generated so many wonderful responses. thanks!
My biggest challenge with my book is not the book itself, but the promotional aspect. I had no idea when I went into this what would be entailed with publishing. I self published my book, but soon learned that book stores wouldn't carry my books. My books are available on amazon.com, barnes and noble and books a million. I sell about two to three books a week. I have exhausted savings that I had with different marketing plans that my publisher keeps coming up with and that I thought would sell books. I still cannot get them into book stores at all. I do have a book signing lined up in a couple months during our town's celebration. Aside from that, not sure what else to do. I did purchase the book by Mr. Kremer on marketing books and I'm still stymied.
Kathy, what kind of book is your book?
My book is an inspirational book entitled Extraordinary Life Lessons from Ordinary Christian Women. It is stories about women that have impacted me in my life and the lessons they have taught me.
I think chasing bookstores is wasted energy. As long as your books can be ordered by bookstores (through Ingram etc), then your time and money is better spent creating buzz and demand for your book. If you build it, they will come :-) If people want your book but don't want to buy online, bookstores will get it in for them.
Michelle, I agree with you and I would add a few of my quirky thoughts about some of the things we authors do. (Or don't do as in my case) There are some websites that say, tag mine and I will tag yours..., tryihg to boost the ratings of each other's book. That doesn't sound a like true evaluation of a work, thus, I don't do it. Then there are those who say, send me a free book and I will give you a good review and that too doesn't really tell much about how much my work is appreciated. What I do look for is the readers that I have never met, never known before and haven't bribed to give me an evaluation. I may be wrong, but to me that sounds like integrity and that is what I try to convey to my young audience with my books. I do promote my books by spreading the word and I enjoy seeing the sales reports, but I plan to be writing for many years to come and don't expect to stop at fifteen or twenty books. It is my job. Dr Robert E McGinnis author of" The Paradise Series, The Little Eagle Series, The White Panther Series, Sunday Letters, In Search of Paradise fourth edition.... among others yet to be published such as Steam Valley

I especially like comments by other authors such as...the following which was added to my book blogging page, Paradise Readers

.Sandra Carrington-Smith added a comment to your profile on Paradise Readers:

Good morning Dr M! I am deep into your book, and I am blown away at the similarities of our thoughts...:-)

Have a wonderful day!
I agree that some authors go a bit overboard when it comes to cross promotion. I do occasionally participate in an electronic book swap but will not promise a good review. If the book holds no merit, has numerous spelling mistakes or simply, in my opinion, shouldn't be on the shelves I tell the author privately. The conundrum is if you tell them this opinion before they review yours is their opinion influenced by this? Who knows...

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