Very true. It’s what has frustrated me about a few social networking sites where everyone and their mom has written a book is trying to get it published or has it published and wants everyone to read it. I, myself, already push other authors’ books. And they may not even be books in my genre. But if its a good read, I’ll promote it any way I can so it gets some more readers. The circle is in fact round.
Author of Dark Vampiric Fantasy
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Don’t Promote Your Book
- S.C. Parris
- July 2, 2014
- 1:09 am
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Title: Sinner Sharpe: Dark Waters
Genre: Dark Epic Fantasy
Wordcount: 90k
Planned Deadline: February 2023
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The New Year & A New Focus On My Vampires
I'm choosing, with this round of storytelling, to dive into 'harder topics,' and things I want to write about. I want to give my worlds more nuance, my characters more stakes, and hopefully more heart. I write for everyone but I cannot deny my experiences--Black experiences--are what have shaped me and should shape my writing. I'm adamant about this because of the erasure of my Black characters in THE DARK WORLD series by white readers.
‘THE TALES OF SINNER SHARPE: DARK WATERS’ Excerpt: Bats
This helped shape the nature of the story: Sinner is an outcast from this island. He has no magical ability, same as all from Othril, and when on the mainland, this lack of magical ability is apparent—he is ostracized not only because of his physical dark features, but his inability.
Gothic Horror And Inspiration
It was always my intention as of late, with Sinner Sharpe to delve into the horror he's facing--not physical horror--at least not yet, but the mental horror. He's seeing horrific visions, he's losing large gaps of time, he's being attacked on his ship (an already enclosed space) for weeks.
DRACULA is (finally) out in E-Book Format!
If you haven't opened your email by now (and why aren't you subscribed to the newsletter, yet?) then you don't know that DRACULA: Book 6, the final book in The Dark World series has been released!