Self-Publishing My Tiny Bit of Self-Publishing Success

[Victoria Bastedo]

I watched. I listened. To my other writer friends. One had some success going to conventions and selling his books in person. I have one, very successful self-publishing friend who panders to a cozy mystery genre audience. I know someone who succeeded because she had 10,000 twitter followers. I tried what worked for me, and realized I had to rate success with my own standards. I'm not worried about sales, glory, or contracts. So, for me, self-publishing was successful. I got to share my art. I made wonderful writer friends, and I learned much. Total strangers have read my books and given me ratings and reviews, based on their reading experience of my book alone, and not because they were impressed by my name, or my blog following.

That said, what brought me my small amount of readership and success was The Fussy Librarian. Along with, about twenty years of learning my craft, lol. I had to learn how to write, how to make my own somewhat presentable covers, how to format and self-publish, and so on.

Here is my amazon page: I have about 500 ratings. Not a lot, I know, but I had to work for each one. Victoria Bastedo: books, biography, latest update

On goodreads I have almost 300 ratings. Books by Victoria Bastedo (Author of Moordym Downs)

I also tried Reader's Favorite; and they treated me well. Gave me some good reviews and I won an honorable mention in a contest. (Meaning I can now say, 'Award-Winning Author'...

https://readersfavorite.com/book-review/threadmaster

 

[Emily]

Well done! That's just brilliant, Victoria

 

[Claire G]

I watched. I listened. To my other writer friends. One had some success going to conventions and selling his books in person. I have one, very successful self-publishing friend who panders to a cozy mystery genre audience. I know someone who succeeded because she had 10,000 twitter followers. I tried what worked for me, and realized I had to rate success with my own standards. I'm not worried about sales, glory, or contracts. So, for me, self-publishing was successful. I got to share my art. I made wonderful writer friends, and I learned much. Total strangers have read my books and given me ratings and reviews, based on their reading experience of my book alone, and not because they were impressed by my name, or my blog following.

That said, what brought me my small amount of readership and success was The Fussy Librarian. Along with, about twenty years of learning my craft, lol. I had to learn how to write, how to make my own somewhat presentable covers, how to format and self-publish, and so on.

Here is my amazon page: I have about 500 ratings. Not a lot, I know, but I had to work for each one. Victoria Bastedo: books, biography, latest update

On goodreads I have almost 300 ratings. Books by Victoria Bastedo (Author of Moordym Downs)

Brilliant to hear a success story - those ratings are great as far as I'm concerned! Well done!

 

[Mel L]

All of us need more stories like yours, Victoria! Love that you define success on your own terms. Congrats!

 

[AgentPete]

Nice, Vicky

 

[RK Wallis]

you deserve it xx r

 

[KateESal]

Fantastic Victoria — well done you!!

 

[Victoria Bastedo]

Thank you, everybody!

 

[James Charles]

I watched. I listened. To my other writer friends. One had some success going to conventions and selling his books in person. I have one, very successful self-publishing friend who panders to a cozy mystery genre audience. I know someone who succeeded because she had 10,000 twitter followers. I tried what worked for me, and realized I had to rate success with my own standards. I'm not worried about sales, glory, or contracts. So, for me, self-publishing was successful. I got to share my art. I made wonderful writer friends, and I learned much. Total strangers have read my books and given me ratings and reviews, based on their reading experience of my book alone, and not because they were impressed by my name, or my blog following.

That said, what brought me my small amount of readership and success was The Fussy Librarian. Along with, about twenty years of learning my craft, lol. I had to learn how to write, how to make my own somewhat presentable covers, how to format and self-publish, and so on.

Here is my amazon page: I have about 500 ratings. Not a lot, I know, but I had to work for each one. Victoria Bastedo: books, biography, latest update

On goodreads I have almost 300 ratings. Books by Victoria Bastedo (Author of Moordym Downs)

I also tried Reader's Favorite; and they treated me well. Gave me some good reviews and I won an honorable mention in a contest. (Meaning I can now say, 'Award-Winning Author'...

https://readersfavorite.com/book-review/threadmaster

Wow! I'm so impressed. Well done.

 

[Hannah Faoileán]

That's brill, Vicky!

 

[Jonny]

Fantastic stuff, Vicky.

Good to see you back around the Colony too.

 

[RK Wallis]

Fantastic stuff, Vicky.

Good to see you back around the Colony too.

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