Book Two

What to Publish Next When the First One Didn't Land

Book one sold nine copies. Which book you write next is a business decision, not a motivational one.

Book Two is a book in the Indie Author Guide Line: short, source-checked guides for independent authors who have finished writing and now have to be found. Write the sequel to a book nobody read, write something else in the same category, or leave the category entirely? Every piece of available advice says write the next book, and none of it says which next book.

This book treats the choice as the business decision it is, and it refuses to say "write the next book" without saying which one.

What's inside:

• What a series does to the economics of a weak-selling first book
• What it actually costs to abandon a category you've already invested in
• Why sunk cost matters, but isn't the whole of the argument
• What a nine-copy launch does and does not tell you about what to build next
• How to weigh sequel, same-category, or full pivot as three distinct business bets
• A framework for making the decision once, rather than relitigating it every week

This is not a pep talk telling you to keep going no matter what. What it will do is help you make the actual decision in front of you — sequel, pivot, or exit — with the evidence a weak launch does and doesn't provide.

From the Indie Author Guide Line, from Novel Concepts Publishing.