I realise that publishing my novel via Amazon as a Kindle download is not the pinnacle of publishing success. It would be much better for my novel to have been picked up by a real publisher and produced as a paperback. However, this has not happened yet, and I felt as if time was running out for this book. I wrote it over three years ago, although I have been tinkering with it ever since trying to edit out as many errors and typos as I could find. It was time to let this baby go and start to concentrate on the next one. But no sooner had I, metaphorically, pushed it out of the nest than I wondered whether it was the right thing to do.
Now it is out there, floating in the great ether of the electronic publishing world waiting for someone to notice it.
Many people have already read the novel in its draft form. Mostly friends and family, and without exception they have loved it. But then again they would, wouldn’t they, or they would keep a diplomatic silence on the issue.
Now complete strangers are free to buy it and to make comment on it. I have read some of the comments on Amazon that people have written about other author’s novels. Some of them are not pretty.
Ever since I had two children I have spent every minute of every day worrying about them; hoping they are safe, well and happy. Now I almost feel as if I have another baby to worry about. Suppose nobody loves this one. Should I have kept it at home with me a little while longer?
I guess time will tell.
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