If you’re the only one who thinks your book is good, but everyone else disagrees, is it still good?

I don’t know.

 My second manuscript is not doing as well as I had hoped. I love this book.   But for now, I will have to put it on hold.  It breaks my heart, yet it’s something I have to do.

I’ve always heard of other writers who had a manuscript or two in their desk somewhere that they couldn’t sell.  I considered myself fortunate to have my first book published, so I reasoned that my next book would be easier.  How wrong I was!  No one was interested in my second manuscript. I got no nibbles, no bites, nothing.  I was disappointed, yes, but I had to keep going.  Writers write.  And so that’s what I did.  I wrote another book.

And this time my editor liked it.  I have an extensive rewrite to do, but I’m glad I didn’t sit around and wait for my other manuscript to sell.  I would be still waiting.

I know that my other manuscript is good.  But I couldn’t waste time and complain about that fact that it wasn’t selling.  I had to do something. Hence, the next book.

Writer’s write.  If you don’t sell a book, move on, and write another one. And another one, and another one. Some of them will get published and some won’t.  My goal was always to just get published. And I’m so fortunate that I am.