thedude3445
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I've come into a puzzling dilemma that I'm not sure how to solve (or if it's even worth solving). When you finish a story, what can you do to make sure it doesn't just sit around and gather dust? I've been pondering this for a while to no avail so far.
My story Hands Held in the Snow finished in early August on its main site, and on August 31st on Scribble Hub and Tapas, and it was a bit of an event at the time, especially for the people actively reading it since the beginning. It was really fun to go on this nine-month journey with the readers and my characters alike. But since then... it's been kinda slow. A few people have finished it on Royal Road, and recently the story got more attention on Tapas, but it's still significantly less readership than when it was still serializing. I kind of expected that there'd be more people who had the story bookmarked and were waiting for it to finish to read the whole thing, but I'm not sure that's happened so far. On Scribble Hub, in fact, only ten registered users have read the story at all since it finished, and only one finished.
Not complaining about it, of course, because I'm glad anyone's been reading to begin with. But I've been trying to figure out how to get more people to read the story now that the whole thing's available.
I know the story isn't the issue, at least if reviews and comments from readers are to be believed. So then it's got to be an issue that it's just not very easy for readers to discover the story anymore, or something like that. I guess? Besides adding all-new content (e.g. bonus chapters, art, Q&As), what can an author do to promote their stories to more readers after it's complete?
My story Hands Held in the Snow finished in early August on its main site, and on August 31st on Scribble Hub and Tapas, and it was a bit of an event at the time, especially for the people actively reading it since the beginning. It was really fun to go on this nine-month journey with the readers and my characters alike. But since then... it's been kinda slow. A few people have finished it on Royal Road, and recently the story got more attention on Tapas, but it's still significantly less readership than when it was still serializing. I kind of expected that there'd be more people who had the story bookmarked and were waiting for it to finish to read the whole thing, but I'm not sure that's happened so far. On Scribble Hub, in fact, only ten registered users have read the story at all since it finished, and only one finished.
Not complaining about it, of course, because I'm glad anyone's been reading to begin with. But I've been trying to figure out how to get more people to read the story now that the whole thing's available.
I know the story isn't the issue, at least if reviews and comments from readers are to be believed. So then it's got to be an issue that it's just not very easy for readers to discover the story anymore, or something like that. I guess? Besides adding all-new content (e.g. bonus chapters, art, Q&As), what can an author do to promote their stories to more readers after it's complete?
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