I published my work through KDP around two months ago. Since then, I’ve been advertising almost every single day, but I’m not seeing any real results. I haven’t earned anything from it yet. Honestly, I’m exhausted.
The biggest issue isn’t even sales anymore. It’s visibility. Zero views. That’s what hurts the most.
I promote my work through Instagram and Twitter now. Earlier, I also used Threads, where I used to make post consistently, and basically market my books without spending money on ads. But my Threads account got taken down.
Right now I have six profiles across Wattpad, and together they have around 200+ followers. The problem is that the audience is split across all six pages. The same book is on Inkitt too, but it only has 9 followers there. And honestly? The audience feels dead everywhere, no matter the platform.
Looking back, I think I published on KDP way too early. I mainly did it because I felt pressured to monetize my writing, and because people kept telling me that publishing was the “next step.” At the time, I thought maybe they were right.
The sad part is that I genuinely used to love writing. That’s why I ended up writing 20+ stories after that, hoping one of them would finally build an audience. But now, because none of the audiences are active, writing has started feeling less like something I love and more like a job I hate.
Back then, ideas came naturally to me. Now I mostly feel frustrated. Audiences constantly say they want authors to create something “new” or “different,” but the moment you actually try to do that, people disappear or stop engaging completely.
And when I really think about it, the last time I wrote something purely for myself, without worrying about publishing, promotion, algorithms, followers, or sales… was probably when I wrote Beyond the Beast. That was over a year ago.
So yeah. I don’t really know what I’m supposed to do anymore.
