Hey Guys, Thought this might be the place to introduce myself before actually getting involved in the forums. Really quite excited to read some new writing, and getting tips and advice from others. As for myself, I'm a 19 year old student from the East Midlands in the UK and I'm just about to start University. I've been writing for as long as I can remember and have always enjoyed it. For the last year I have been working with an editor, and publicist to promote my second novel Walking on Cinders through social media. I started writing this three years ago and have taken the last year to edit the manuscript. My first novel was called "The Kraken's Curse." What we're launching is a 1,000 books to sell project, as the novel is self published, we are hoping to sell that number as here in the UK it's known as the number at which publishers start to take you seriously. Thanks for reading and being kind to a new member Ben
Welcome Ben. Woah, second novel?! Good luck with the novel(s). And woo, I'm nineteen and a student too. High five!
Hey Ben Nice to meet you. What is your local library system like - the one's here in north scotland organise author events they can sell a lot of local author books. -Charlotte
Hi Ben! It's very nice to meet you. Welcome to the forum. You're 19, and you already have a book ready to be published? I envy you in a most admirable way. I hope everything goes well, and I'll check out your site. T
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Thanks Cogito for info, for obvious reasons I am new and didn't immediately realise this! Will take some time to look around. Cheers. Thanks tayleea91 and Eunoia Nice to meet you. And Elgaisma, yeah I have support from the local library here. We're hoping to organise a talk of some sort this Christmas. Ben
Hallo and welcome - that's really impressive, even if it is self-published -- you sound so confident about it that it really sounds like you'll get those 1000 copies sold.
