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Hello fellow writers. In 2011, I had self-published a book titled "Catch Me If You Know How - Internet Edition" under my publisher of Ominous light Publishing. After a tremendous amount of setbacks in my life over the last few years, I am finally back to starting my writing again. It has excellent reviews on Amazon.
My initial book was intended to be the first of many books in a series, which I opted to call "editions." I still have the intention and ambition to do this, but have taken a step back and reviewed my past efforts in hopes of improving and fixing any shortcomings. As it turned out, my cartoons of a fat guy (me) was not received very well among some other things. So I am now faced with with what to do next, and was hoping for feedback and input form others here.
The options I see are:
1.) Go back and "update" my first book and re-release it as a v2 of the same book name. This means the book will be approximately 95% unchanged but refreshed with current information (and some rebranding).
2.) Leave my first book as is and rebrand the second book to be similar but improved and under a different edition name. This will cause me to have two related books that appear to look different. I do wish to allow people to see that my first book is a few years old though so that they do not confuse it with the new editions.
3.) Just rewrite from scratch.
I have also decided that I am no longer offering print books as I did with my first book, and will focus solely on eBooks instead. Kind of makes sense considering my books are of technical nature anyways.
Thanks in advance for your input.
My initial book was intended to be the first of many books in a series, which I opted to call "editions." I still have the intention and ambition to do this, but have taken a step back and reviewed my past efforts in hopes of improving and fixing any shortcomings. As it turned out, my cartoons of a fat guy (me) was not received very well among some other things. So I am now faced with with what to do next, and was hoping for feedback and input form others here.
The options I see are:
1.) Go back and "update" my first book and re-release it as a v2 of the same book name. This means the book will be approximately 95% unchanged but refreshed with current information (and some rebranding).
2.) Leave my first book as is and rebrand the second book to be similar but improved and under a different edition name. This will cause me to have two related books that appear to look different. I do wish to allow people to see that my first book is a few years old though so that they do not confuse it with the new editions.
3.) Just rewrite from scratch.
I have also decided that I am no longer offering print books as I did with my first book, and will focus solely on eBooks instead. Kind of makes sense considering my books are of technical nature anyways.
Thanks in advance for your input.