Brainstorming

Was very close to signing one of the contracts that has been sent to me and has been lying in my mailbox for the past two months. And like always just at the brink, just when I am standing at the edge, I realised how unsure I was of my work.I mean technically only two people have read my book. I was two scared that probably I wouldn't be able to handle the criticism, so I sent it to the safest person, my then girlfriend and now my best friend and also my editor.

I have to send it to more people and i got to take that criticism, i.e if there is any. I have full faith in my story, my writing.........um, not to sure of. But my ex says it's good, so does my agent who i have never spoken to, BTW. Neha handles all that, i'm the creative end she is the 'get it published' end.

I realised I got to make myself known in the world before I can put my book, my baby out there. I got to give my forst book a fair chance to succeed, cuz no one reads an unknown authors book, trust me on that. I have been to crossword and literary fests like a million times, asked a million people, done about a million surveys. Very rarely an unknown authors book is picked by a reader. My stastics show only 2.67% people who have picked an unknown authors book just judging on the cover. It would have been much less if my survey was a lil more extensive.

So basic question what do I do, to get recognised?

Brainstorming continues in the next blog, the schemes and the antics and the life of Jacob Rohan Joseph and Neha's entourage(I'm part of it).