Hello everyone.
I've now finished a six month slog of trying to sell a book. No dice. I had promising leads early on but they've all backed out.
The subject matter is a bit...weird, so I really don't blame any of the 30 agents and 20 publishing editors I sent it to for turning it down. It's definitely not going to be a bestseller.
I'm currently deciding whether or not to abandon this project (this is the 3rd book I've written) and start something new, or try to sell this one as an ebook.
I understand some other people on the forum have done this.
I was wondering if you can recommend a good means of doing that, or give me your overall evaluation of how the process went and whether it was worth it.
Of course by "worth it" I don't mean "didja make lots of money? huh? didja?" because I've spent about 2,000 hours on this book over the last 4 years so in order to recoup my losses at the wage I'm accustomed to I'd need to make like, tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars and that's frankly unrealistic. I just mean did you enjoy the experience and get a fair few people to actually read your book.