When to Stop

Telling a Rough Patch From a Wrong Plan

The genre assumes persistence is always right and quitting is the only failure. That assumption has ruined people.

When to Stop 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. This book asks the question the rest of the shelf refuses: how would you know?

It covers the difference between a book that failed and a business that isn't one.

Written by a house with nothing to sell you if you stop, this book is free to say plainly that stopping can be a legitimate answer.

What's inside:

• What evidence a genuinely bad year provides, and what it doesn't
• The difference between stopping a single title and stopping entirely
• How to weigh the alternative uses of the same hours and the same money
• A framework for making the decision once, in writing, when calm
• Why "never give up" is not actually advice, and what to use instead
• How this book's argument sits against The First Fifty Copies, which argues the opposite side of the same question

This is not a book that tells you to quit, and it isn't one that tells you to push through no matter what. What it will do is give you a calm, honest way to answer the question for yourself, instead of deciding it at midnight after a bad royalty report.

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