Okay, so here I am, ten days past a milestone birthday and you would think that at my age, I would know more than I do. One of the things that I don't know is: Why do people gravitate more toward Post-Apocalyptic novels than they do the other subjects that I've written about?
Don't get me wrong, I like it that I've sold so many copies of Gulf of the Plains and Gulf of the Plains II: Fog and Bog, my post-apocalyptic series, but I've written so much else that I've written as well. Some of my work is even better than these two books, but for some reason, I can't get readers interested in it.
I've written a book of shorts dealing with subjects from reincarnation, ghosts and succubi, to alternate worlds, possessed building stones and even added a short dealing with an imaginary criptid in a humorous, Western setting. There's a book about a demonic possession. A time-travel novel. An alternate world story. A book about a vampire mother who actually tries to protect her children. An interplanetary book dealing with a messianic figure. A book about what happens to a couple when they fall into the interstices between worlds. A story of a man who earns a questionable reputation through the use of a mystical knife. A story about a genie. And a cloning and reincarnation story. I think you can see why I question readers' tastes. There is so much here that is entertaining and interesting, yet the readers don't seem to be able to find most of it. If they like my P-A novels, then why can't they simply do a search on Amazon for my name and find the rest of it. Some of my books are interlocked by the use of recurring characters from other stories, and several even take place in the same fictitious city.
I'm not a whiner, I just want to know what I am doing wrong in marketing my work.
Thank you,
Derek A. Murphy
Author of Congruencies, A Taste For Blood, A Quart of Djinn and others.
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