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Ksenia Anske

May 14, 2017

10 tips on turning your book writing into a business

by Ksenia Anske


Illustration by Chow Hon Lam

Illustration by Chow Hon Lam

Illustration by Chow Hon Lam

Illustration by Chow Hon Lam

After writing full-time for five years and making intermittent sales (they would happen randomly, without my understanding of why at that particular moment, and why that particular book), I finally got fed up with being poor and have told you (or rather, screamed at you from various Internet roofs) that I'll be treating my book writing as a business from now on. Starting tomorrow, to be exact. Because tomorrow, on May 15th, it will be exactly five years since I began writing the first draft of my first trilogy, Siren Suicides. Many of you have asked what I meant by this, some have misunderstood that I'll be betraying my past mantras (like concentrating on the craft and letting your readers sell for you), and some have cheered me on with the rightful, "FINALLY." Yeah, finally.

So, why now?

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TAGS: I love you, do death, for sticking so long with me, 5 years!, crazy, plus this whole business thing, let's see if I can pull it off, I sure hope I can, wish me luck