One thing nobody prepared me for as an author was how emotionally draining promotion can feel after publishing.
You finally put your work out there… and then you’re refreshing pages hoping people even see it.
No reviews.
Low visibility.
Algorithms doing whatever they want.
Meanwhile you KNOW the book deserves readers.
I genuinely thought writing the book was the hard part.
Turns out getting consistent attention on it is a completely different skill.
What’s interesting is once I started approaching promotion differently, I noticed a huge shift in engagement and discoverability.
Now I understand why some books quietly disappear while others keep gaining traction months later.
Any other authors here relate to this?
What’s been your biggest frustration after publishing?