In The Time Of Self Publishing Torrent - Love

Stop trusting the bestseller lists. Find a human curator. Follow one obscure author you love. Read their newsletter. Let their specific taste guide you. Romance is a genre of emotion; don't let a robot tell you how to feel.

Love in the Time of the Self-Publishing Torrent love in the time of self publishing torrent

That is where love still lives. Not in the torrent—but in the quiet pause between the drops. Stop trusting the bestseller lists

Stop chasing the wave. The wave is a tsunami of mediocre copycats. Instead, build a lifeboat . That lifeboat is your direct relationship with 1,000 true fans. If you write for the love of the thing—the specific, weird, beautiful thing only you can write—the right readers will swim through the torrent to find you. Read their newsletter

This is the applied to the heart. When there are a million versions of “the one,” does anyone feel chosen? The Algorithm as Matchmaker In the old days, you met a book because a friend handed it to you. Now, you meet a book because “Also Boughts” and “You Might Like” algorithms decide you have a type.

As a reader, you are drowning in happily-ever-afters. As a writer, you are screaming into a void hoping someone hears your specific flavor of “enemies to lovers.”