Nobody said it was
going to be easy making a living as a writer. Nobody said it was always going
to be fun. Nobody promised me that after spending twenty-plus years holed up in
my office writing novels that anyone would ever read them. Nobody promised me anything
would ever come of my writing, and yet I still do it.
Day after day, year after year, I sit
in front of this keyboard and tap out characters and worlds. I’ve been to other
planets, experienced other dimensions, felt unimaginable loss, murdered
strangers, loved promiscuously, hated enemies; I’ve done just about everything
I’ve always wanted to do without ever leaving this room. And yet, nobody ever
promised me that anything would ever come of this hobby.
Did I ever think of giving up? If
you’re a real writer than the answer is of course, most certainly not! It’s not
even possible to stop. Telling a writer to give up the craft is like telling a
person with the most cataclysmic bout of diarrhea to stop pooping (thank you
Stephen King for that analogy). There is no giving up and there is no stopping
an artist with the drive to create.
If the digital revolution had never
happened and I never had made a dime off my books would I still be spending
hour after hour day after day in front of my keyboard? Writing is a habit I
can’t stop and I don’t know any other way to live my life. For more than two
decades I have not given up and have not stopped writing and as a result in the
last two years I’ve sold thousands of copies in five countries. Sample and free promo copies have been
downloaded more than 45,000 times.
And the
topper… my book DROP OUT is going to be featured as a bargain book on Ereader
News Today, tomorrow June 10th! It is on sale right now for just $0.99!
Grab a copy today! It will affect you. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005FX0K7U
Funny thing is, none of this would
have ever happen if I had just taken the easy route and given up. Never! Nobody
ever promised me this would be easy.
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