A Guest Post byAuthor, Kat Caffee
The Followers of Torments
Though I am an “accidental author” the story that makes up
The Followers of Torments has made sure to keep me an HONEST author as
well. Not only does it push me to
continue writing the story (if I want to sleep, that is), it has also given me
reason to stretch out in new ways, dust off old skills, and adapt some of my
old hobbies to new mediums.
What started out as a single book grew into two, then three,
then exploded to a five book saga. So
far, it’s listened to me when I put my foot down, and not grown beyond
that. Along the way, because I’m one of
those people who doesn’t know the meaning of “half-hearted effort” I’ve also
learned how to manage my time well enough to support a blog and social presence
to help the story that insisted on being written get discovered. That’s what has led to today’s wonderful
news.
Initially, I had no idea about how to market or promote
anything. What experience I have in
sales has always allowed me to use a “soft sell” where I help people who know
they want something figure out exactly what they want. If the place I was selling didn’t have that
item, I had no issues with telling the customers where I remembered seeing it
last. That hasn’t worked so well in the
book world – there are a lot of people who know they want a book, and some of
those even know they want a book from a specific genre. However, there are so many books to choose
from that helping them find just the right book has meant I’ve sent them away
from my own work. Especially when I have
trouble even admitting I’ve got work out in the marketplace for them to try.
When I first started writing, this wasn’t an issue, because
there wasn’t enough of the series written to make it really worth anyone’s
while to start. Even when I published
the second book, I couldn’t guarantee that the rest would be coming any time
soon. As such, I began building a blog,
and worked on build up a blog following.
I posted samples of short stories, flash fiction, and even some of the
lessons I learned along the way to where I am now.
With the publication of the third book, along with the
detour into companion novellas, I began to notice that I’d managed to back
myself into the obscure corner. I tried
to remedy this by introducing a blog series focused on my books, but in the
hustle and bustle of everything else going up on the blog, the posts were
getting lost.
Eventually, I realized I did need to break up the blog – not
to leave my current fans, but to separate the post types – I decided it was
time to dedicate space specifically to my books. So, when the Alterraden website design came
about, I made sure to set up such a section where the book could be featured,
and the posts that had been lost in the jumble of all the different types of
blog series I’d been running could shine in the spotlight.
I’m re-releasing the posts that were buried, and adding a
few new ones along the way. If you
wander over to the Pukah Works HomeOffice, or the Alterraden site,
you’ll find a menu link to the Followers of Torments
section of the site. This is where all
the wonderful posts about the series can be found. There are themed posts for a “Behind the
Scenes” look at how the books developed, “Meet the Characters” where I provide
character sketches for the important characters introduced in each book, and
updates about the progress for upcoming projects.
Why not come on over, and learn some more about The
Followers of Torments?
Bio:
K. Caffee has always been a storyteller. Now, she is sharing her words with the world, rather than a small group clustered around to hear what she has to say.
When she is not taking anyone on a ride through her wild imagination, she is thinking of something new to tell, trying to keep her cats from claiming the keyboard from her, or studying to pass her next class exam.
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