After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
Sell yourself first, if you want to sell anything.
We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman.
I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.
You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything.
I always just wanted to write and maybe direct. I'm really only interested in that. And yet the business that I'm in has forced me into being a salesman - that's the last thing that 17-year-old me would imagine I'd end up being. I'm uncomfortable trying to sell anything, but that's what you're doing every time you walk into a pitch.
My book sales make 'real writers' possible.
I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.
You have to write the story that's at the front of your head. There is no point in trying to write for the market; it won't ring true.