American Male Prostitute - A Novel by Wilfried F. Voss

The Indecision Process Is Done With

On November 24, 2009, in American Male Prostitute, The Fellow Utopian, by Wilfried F. Voss

Indecision may or may not be my problem.
– Jimmy Buffett

American Male Prostitute - A Novel by Wilfried F. Voss

As an author these times you spend a tremendous time with building your platform and marketing of your novel. Marketing a novel effectively, as I have learned in the past year or so, is 1000+ times harder than promoting a non-fiction work.

Part of “building my platform” includes writing entries on various Online forums. I have tried some of them and gave up on most of them, fairly disgusted. The only one I currently maintain is AuthorNation.com, where I get the feeling that I am amongst people who are like me, aspiring and looking for success. Here, we do thrive from each other’s input.

In one of the posts I mentioned that I had ideas for at least another three novels, and that number is actually a conservatively low estimate. For the longest time, since the publication of my first novel The Bleeding Hills, I was thrown back and forth between two of the contenders, The Fellow Utopian and American Male Prostitute.

I have to admit, The Fellow Utopian was my first idea for a novel, and I am desperate to finish it. It does, however, require a tremendous amount of research. American Male Prostitute, however, is a relatively easy writing, since I am familiar with the odds and ends of the publishing industry. I had started writing both novels simultaneously, but it was amazing how fast I finished the first few thousand words on American Male Prostitute.

Since the release of The Bleeding Hills, I also learned that the presence of a second novel might have a greater impact on my first work than the actual first novel itself. So, I was pressed to make a decision between these two.

The winner is clearly American Male Prostitute. First, the title itself is the best marketing tool, because it is provocative, and I have already written more than 7,500 words. Writing American Male Prostitute is fun, and I am not saying that writing The Fellow Utopian isn’t. Well, in all honesty American Male Prostitute is more fun, and that is the reason that writing it will result in better progress.

Let it hereby known that Wilfried F. Voss’ next novel will be titled American Male Prostitute.