How long does it take?

[hrj]

So evidently the answer to the above question is "two years".** Two years from the publication of Daughter of Mystery to the point where I feel like my books have self-sustaining traction. (Not entirely self-sustaining, obviously.) So here's my commitment: when a bout of book-depression starts (and it will start, I can't help that), I will whisper to myself "February 2016" in the same way that my mantra against nobody-loves-me-land is "25th Laurelversary".

**Your mileage may vary. Results are not typical. No warranty is included.

Comments

[lifeofglamour.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a good thing!

[katerit.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that the books are gaining some traction.

I need a mantra - especially against that second place, into which I frequently wander.

[hrj.livejournal.com]

I wish I had a mantra that I could share. The only one that eventually worked for me was an experience I could hold up and say, "This--this proves that people really do like me." And that can only be individual. One might say I shouldn't have needed concrete proof, but there seemed to be so much proof in the other direction that needed to be countered.

[beth-bernobich.livejournal.com]

One might say I shouldn't have needed concrete proof, but there seemed to be so much proof in the other direction that needed to be countered.

I know that feeling.

I also know I love your books. :)

[shaunacarrick.livejournal.com]

oh, how well I know that feeling! I, too, have to remember both my 'insta-bird, just add water' Pelican surprise and my 'you will come to Grand Court' Estrella War Court Barony before I became Laurel Sov in 2004. Having people who NEVER come to court be there to see it was extra-special.

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

You have four proofs of unconditional love right in front of you every day, demanding your attention. (I have a cat in front of me doing something like that right now.) The acclaim of your peers is a separate problem, and fleeting, and open to so many theoretical side arguments as to be almost meaningless. But you have my acclaim, and my respect, if possibly not my cat's.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Word of mouth takes a while, but it works, so it does. *g*

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

This is good.

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Everybody loves you. You need a cat. Then you'll understand a whole new meaning of love.