Booksie.com

Despite my best efforts, I’ve never been able to make much money from selling my writing. Once, at Western Illinois University, I won a short story contest and received fifty dollars, but that’s been about it. A long time ago I had a number of my poems published by Salesian Missions. They were put in little booklets and were published worldwide, but I only received free copies of the books. However, I still really wanted my writing to be read by as many people as possible because it was important to me. I was able to self-publish books for free using a self-publishing website, and I am even on Amazon.com. Even so, there hasn’t been a lot of interest in my work

Fortunately, I discovered a website called Booksie.com that was willing to post my writing for free. It turned out the website is pretty big and a lot of people were interested in reading my posts. I put three books on Booksie and divided each one into chapters. Booksie keeps track of how many people read each book and then the books are also divided into chapter tallies. Here is a description of one of the books, followed by the number of readers who read each book.

Booksie also keeps track of the number of readers who read each chapter.

The website even lists some of the countries where readers are who read my books:

The Booksie website has really encouraged me because I know that I have an audience that reads my writing. This has boosted my self-confidence and ensured I’ll continue to write. Thanks for your support and subscribing to my newsletter and your willingness to read my work. That has also been very encouraging. See you next week!

(Please remember these are my own ideas, and I’m not attempting to persuade anyone to change theirs.)

Quotes:

“Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it’s harder to break out than ever.” Nicholas Sparks

“Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don’t get any.” Jane Russell

“All publicity is good, except for an obituary notice.” Brendan Behan

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