Tower Two - Where are you?

As I’m sitting here listening to Lisa Stanfield singing about running around the world looking for her love. It makes me wonder how many of us writers are chasing our own dreams.

When you look around and see people who are go-getters. Making all those proverbial ’balls in the air’ dance. And yet there are others that seem to be floating by without a care, or thought about their future or goals.  Of if they even have one.

And then you take a look at writers and place them in those same silos. The vast majority of writers can be placed in three towers.

Tower One –

A writer that has already made a name for themselves and just sit back and let the system work for them. Putting out a bestseller after bestseller.

Tower Two –

The writer who writes every day pushes researches, promotes and sells their soul for just one good month of sales so that they can put out another book and start the process over and over again. Always maneuvering those proverbial balls to just make it work.

Tower Three –

Those writers that pick up a pen every now and then. You know the ones. They tell their friends that they are writing a book and have been for 7 years. And for some reason, it never seems to appear. Or better yet, those writers that call or email a publisher asking to be published  - the staff member on the other end of the line says sure, send your work over to me and I’ll take a look. And then that same staff member has to hunt them down a wild animal that just destroyed a village.

Tower three brings on a sad reaction to all publishers as well as those writers in Tower Two. They just don’t realize just what they are missing or throwing away. There are some writers who search for years to get their book published.  And when they finally get that break, they find that they are in a totally different world than they thought they were. That they are now a business and have to put all of their efforts into growing that business.

Here’s the gig. That quote that says, writers, write! Well, it’s true. And now a day’s those same writers shamelessly promote and sell themselves to get to where they need to go.

I have told several people who tell me that they want to write or be a writer, that the days of publishers giving out great advances, sending you on book tours or doing your marketing for you are over. Now are the days of self-promotion, making and scheduling your own book signings as well as shipping your books on your own.

We here at Breaking Rules Publishing are looking for Tower Two writers. The ones that have the drive, the desire to get their book and name out there. So if you have the taste, the drive and desire to make it work, then we’re here to help you. It is our goal to help all of our writers reach their goals and fulfill their writing dreams.

Simply email us at breakingrulespublishing@gmail.com and we will do all that we can to make that happen.

If you’re in Tower Three – we wish you luck. We’re sorry, but we just don’t have to time to trail behind you, trying to find you in the rough. We’re off forging the road for those authors that are serious about creating their own path.