I’m a nonfiction writer and enjoy the challenge of trying to earn a living self-publishing. I suspect it’s even more challenging for fiction writers. If you’re publishing your own novel, I suspect your chances of success are greatly improved if your story is set in a town or region that exists in the real world — a place lots of people have an affinity for. People enjoy reading about home. If your story’s action involves a business or profession you know, so much the better. Here’s an example from Hattiesburg, Miss.:
Familiar places mentioned in the narrative include Hudson’s Salvage Center, the University of Southern Mississippi and Forrest General Hospital, while other businesses’ identities have been subtly changed, but will still be recognizable to readers familiar with the Hub City.
“When people ask me what “The Counting” is about, I usually tell them, in a nutshell, it is about love, betrayal, revenge, and the antique business,” said Johnsey, who has a doll shop inside Calico Mall Antiques Center in downtown Hattiesburg.
via Authors set novel in Hattiesburg’s antiques world | hattiesburgamerican.com | Hattiesburg American.
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Great idea! I think I will utilize that in a future book.