Beta Reading Group for Marita A. Hansen discussion

This page is for the sequel to OVERWHELMED. I have had a lot of trouble with this book, both financially and inspiration wise. It has also caused me issues in regards to people abusing me for not publishing it. The reason I haven't progressed with it is because I am a self-published author who earns extremely little from writing. Most of my royalties goes into paying off my self-publishing expenses (editing, covers, cover images, etc.), and what little I get after that isn't enough to cover daily expenses. Because of this it's not possible to put out a sequel if the previous book doesn't meet expectations, or incurs a loss. People also pirate my books, therefore also making it impossible to do the sequel, which is what happened to I Love You, Salvatore's sequel. A pirating site gave away hundreds of copies of that book, while I only sold 12 on its publishing day. I was devastated, and told the pirating site that they were the reason I couldn't do the sequel. They deleted my message on their site.

However, I always feel bad for not putting out a sequel, so I will see what I can do for Hungover since it is the book people constantly ask for. Which is why I have set up this page to encourage myself to work on the chapters once The Cheat's series is finished. So far I have written 15,000 words on Hungover. A good start, but still a long way to go. I'm also hoping 2020 will be kinder to me, both health wise (I got diagnosed with cancer this year. Thankfully, it's all gone now) and financially (so I can pay the self-publishing costs).

If you are interested in learning about my progress with Hungover, pop a message below.

Thanks!

Massive well done to beating CANCER xxxx
Also think it’s awful you hardly make a thing from your books because with out your writing I would be lost, you truly make a big difference in the book world would be a waste to not have you as a writer,producing books. Also to all the people who read books from dodgy sites maybe a message like this would help them see what it’s like for you and how little you actually make by doing all this. I for one would love to read all your work and would still buy it when it comes out cause the way you write a story it definitely makes a book come alive. Your daring and bold also your imagination is great. So keep going and remember you have amazing true fans out there that support you. Wish you loads of great health from here on out. Xx

Thank you so much, I really appreciate everything you said :)

BLURRED LINES UPDATE - OVERWHELMED & HUNGOVER.

I've just read through the first 2 chapters of OVERWHELMED preparing to read it out loud so that I can create an audio copy for Patreon. I also took some notes as a refresher, using it for HUNGOVER.

👌 brilliant

HUNGOVER is now moving full steam ahead. I wrote 10,000 words last night, working into the early hours of the morning. I'll be giving updates on the progress on here, so it'll motivate me not to slacken off.

It looks like I'll be reviving Hungover (Blurred Lines #2), with a promotional excerpt being added to the back of BARCODE Episode 3. Though, the only way I can publish it now is by turning it into a serial, since book pirates have made it financially impossible to release it any other way, Overwhelmed's pirating now excessive.

I just have to find some beta readers as all of my resources went into Barcode.