I had two ideas for a series of novels. One of them was a fun and relatively "harmless" soft sci-fi action-adventure series with a lot of treasure hunting themes and exploration elements with that timeless trope of a few misfits sharing space on the same starship through it all...
... and the other was a shamelessly leftist politically loaded dystopian fiction setting that went in swinging at a lot of stuff I see as very, very wrong with the world and where it seems to be going in the near future.
I should have wrote the "safe" series first and used that to build up momentum for the other instead of picking fights with :so-true: billionaire stans and their fever dreams of Mars colonies and singularity escapism. The negative reviews I got were almost entirely "I don't like your politics" dressed up with a few more words, and that hurts presence on the algorithm. :desolate:
I already write under a pen name, but I did consider a different pen name for the other series. But, I was also considering trying to rekindle interest in my previous series with any success I might see with my future work. I'm not yet decided if I want to start over when it comes to building up my writing history.
Ah well, may as well do it again. Third book, the series finale, is coming out this year once I'm done editing and revising it after hearing back from beta readers.
Amazon online reviews tend to be where the most damage was done. Goodreads was... fine, I suppose.
I sincerely hope I wrote something entertaining, not just "help me boost this because I could use more algorithm visiblity" but the first chapters of the first book are openly available on the website so you can at least get a first impression.
Hey man, just keep on writing. How many writers are there who made it with their first book? Don't become discouraged. I'm impressed with how good it all looks.
Thanks. The encouragement is appreciated. I do think I should have started with the "safer" book. It doesn't mean I would have put less effort into it, but looking back, I should have saved my leftist ranting for after I established myself as an author. Sure, I could get shot down then but at least I'd reach more people first. :bloomer:
I had two ideas for a series of novels. One of them was a fun and relatively "harmless" soft sci-fi action-adventure series with a lot of treasure hunting themes and exploration elements with that timeless trope of a few misfits sharing space on the same starship through it all...
... and the other was a shamelessly leftist politically loaded dystopian fiction setting that went in swinging at a lot of stuff I see as very, very wrong with the world and where it seems to be going in the near future.
I should have wrote the "safe" series first and used that to build up momentum for the other instead of picking fights with :so-true: billionaire stans and their fever dreams of Mars colonies and singularity escapism. The negative reviews I got were almost entirely "I don't like your politics" dressed up with a few more words, and that hurts presence on the algorithm. :desolate:
Do you think you'll come around and do the other stories under a pen name or something like that?
I already write under a pen name, but I did consider a different pen name for the other series. But, I was also considering trying to rekindle interest in my previous series with any success I might see with my future work. I'm not yet decided if I want to start over when it comes to building up my writing history.
You should go full goadstool and dox yourself here, I'm sure we could at least marginally help with algorithm momentum
I've posted links to my series here before.
Ah well, may as well do it again. Third book, the series finale, is coming out this year once I'm done editing and revising it after hearing back from beta readers.
Amazon online reviews tend to be where the most damage was done. Goodreads was... fine, I suppose.
I sincerely hope I wrote something entertaining, not just "help me boost this because I could use more algorithm visiblity" but the first chapters of the first book are openly available on the website so you can at least get a first impression.
https://www.tulpatrilogy.com/
Hey man, just keep on writing. How many writers are there who made it with their first book? Don't become discouraged. I'm impressed with how good it all looks.
Thanks. The encouragement is appreciated. I do think I should have started with the "safer" book. It doesn't mean I would have put less effort into it, but looking back, I should have saved my leftist ranting for after I established myself as an author. Sure, I could get shot down then but at least I'd reach more people first. :bloomer: