Gary Richardson Author Blog

For some of you, the title of this blog may look very familiar. I actually ran across an article with a similar name by another author (found here). After reading her article and the information it contained, it got me thinking about how I would answer that question.

Being the no BS country boy that I am, I had a different take on that question than what it seemed the author and others mentioned in the post had. Given that I had my own thoughts on the question, I figured it might be worthwhile to put together my own post on the topic.

So what does an author owe their readers?

If you are an avid reader of my blog then you might recall a previous article when I talked about my brief but exceptional involvement with Snow Tree Media (if not, you can read it here). Basically, I was put into contact with Snow Tree Media as part of a promotional service through Newman Springs Publishing, my original publisher for the first few books in my Ascension Legacy series. For roughly 6 months I worked with Brett on getting my social media accounts synched up and consistent, a shopify website built (this one), and just in general Brett giving me an education in some basic strategies for doing online marketing. When my promotional period expired I had to make the tough choice to end my partnership with Snow Tree Media. I didn't want to but at the time it was a matter of do I spend the funds to market my 1 book or do I spend those funds to publish my next book. I chose to publish more books since The Ascension Legacy is a series and not just a single novel.

What good would it have done to market the first book in a series when there was no money left to publish the rest, right?