Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.
I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell as many books as I have.
My books are published by Hachette. My books have been blacklisted and blocked on Amazon on multiple occasions.
My first four books were not published because nobody wanted them. They were adult books, not kids' books.
I still want to give my public, such as it is, a book a year.
It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.
If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.
Don't hire anyone - no matter what they offer - who promises you they'll sell 'X' copies of your book. Every book is different. The best any marketing company or PR firm can do for your book is make potential readers aware of it.
Books in general are great, but I'm a fiction lover, and I will continue to do it.
Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.