About three weeks after the book launch, I make with mixed feelings some balance. Up to now, about 106 exemplars passed over the counter and one literary blogger decided to give it a shout out: you can find the post here (thank you da-AL).

Launching a novel is a grueling process since you have to compete with the powerful PR machinery of the traditional publishers and book distributors.

I’ve decided to submit the novel to a couple of literary competitions and leave it there. There is only that much one can do without getting increasingly frustrated. Either the bookshops and reading public will decide to give it a go or it will land into the Library of the Forgotten Books.

Meanwhile I’ve returned to my studio to pick up the thread of my artistic life where I’ve dropped it. That is for me the way to grow as a person. I’ve worked for ten years at that novel, I launched it into the literary wilderness with all the support I could manage, and right now it will have to make it on its own.