The Uncomfortable Truth Every Indie Author Will Face: No One Cares You Wrote a Book

There are three guarantees in a writer’s life:

1). Death

2). Taxes

3). No one will care you wrote a book

I know, I know. I’m a killjoy, but someone has to be the indie publishing equivalent of the little boy announcing the emperor is parading around without clothes.

Like you, I love to write and hope to be wildly successful at it one day (i.e. be able to quit my day job), but oftentimes discouragement creeps in faster than water through a screen door on a submarine. So indie authors must prepare themselves by hoping for the best, but expecting the worst. And by worst, I mean the inevitable realization that will come immediately after you publish your book.

As soon as your book becomes available to the public, discouragement will crash your party faster than that uninvited drunk uncle at Thanksgiving dinner with a political ax to grind. This is because the moment will arrive — and rather quickly, I might add — when you come face to face with the realization that no one is interested in the fruits of your labor.