I’m
posting this though the book is not really aimed at adults (except perhaps
those in the film industry, ha!) The Spectres of Winter is the third book in the
Heart of the World series and can be bought from Amazon in either print or
kindle ebook format. Below is a link to the pages.
The
novel has been a long time in the melting pot (there is no actual pot though),
the original idea goes back over ten years though its changed a lot since then.
As the name might just hint at the story is set in the wintertime and I was
determined to publish it in time to catch this winter. Deciding to do this of
course meant I had something like a deadline by which to finish and I was writing
about the cold and snow in the middle of summer. Mind you all of the best Xmas
hits were penned in the summer.
This
being my third fully realised and completed novel I suppose the novelty of
publishing is fading to be replaced by the realisation of how many books there
are out there. Self publishing has opened up possibilities for the majority of
authors unable to breach the strong defences of the literary agent’s domain but that
very freedom means you are just one in a million. For the last two books I paid
a promotions company to push them online and it made absolutely no difference
to sales because there is too much `noise`. Everyone is Tweeting and promoting like mad
but if you look at most of the Tweets any self published author sends out there
has been little response. Plus for YA or children’s writers Twitter and company
are not exactly the places where your potential audience hangs out. So it ends
up hundreds of writers Tweeting to each other!
My
main focus really is to get the novels out there in the public domain at about
the lowest price you’re allowed to charge and do what limited promotion I can.
Perhaps one day they will spark in the wider public imagination or as I often
(half) joke perhaps a film producer will spot the cinematic potential of them
and offer me a comparatively small amount for the rights which I would probably
be so overwhelmed I’d sign away!
The
novel is really aimed at the 9ish to 14ish age group though some adults have
read the previous ones and, unless they were just being nice to me, seemed to enjoy
them. Trouble with adult readers is they are more likely to spot the
inspiration or sources so if you do read it and think you can then obviously
you are wrong!
There's more about the book on my website www.johnconnorswriter.com
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