Crisis Of Faith?

 

The thing that kept me alive during my seemingly endless years as a carer for my demented father was the hope that when it was finally over, and I had more than 5 consecutive minutes to myself, I would make comics.

Four years after father died, I'm busy making my third book. I'm creatively fulfilled, immensely proud, and show off my books to anyone within my radius. Then there's a little fly in the ointment...

My first book eventually hit it's funding goal my second did not despite quadrupling the amount of livestreams I went on.A momentary glitch perhaps?maybe I did something wrong? Next time I'd do better. Except the third book just finished it's crowd funder making even less than the second.I'd thought I was building a customer base and paying my dues, instead I appear to be circling the drain with no indication the next book will do any better than the last.

Low selling ,no profile creators can't get on more prominent livestreams with more viewers to sell well and they can't sell well without getting on those live streams. An interesting conundrum.

I'm looking into a marketing course to try and find the tricks to sell my book . But as it stands, I'm loosing hope.Even the most enthusiastic person can't take dismal failure forever .Every army needs a victory to avoid being demoralized. There are times I've thought about quitting the whole thing. Was it stupid, the son of two dirt poor alchies ever thinking he could have a career as a writer?