Dear Readers,
Happy New Year!
Watermyth‘s first publication anniversary was reached on 7th January 2025 after a rather challenging year of learning how to market and promote the book. These were all skillsets which I possessed to a certain limited degree. I had to promote my short stories, poems and Truancy Magazine, after all. However, in the years of my being mostly on publication hiatus those skills grew rusty; I had to really learn a new skillset in order to promote Watermyth.
It was not all me. I received an incredible amount of support from the writing communities (both indie and traditional/professional), from friends, from academic contacts, and various other people on the social internets. Because of the various recommendations, reviews and support received by Watermyth and her author, we’ve now reached (as of this post), 101 book sales!
Watermyth is also now “in the black” in terms of having earned out the costs put into publishing the book. I am so very grateful for this support and thank everyone who sincerely supported the book and her author without any shenanigans and ulterior motives.
In other news, the discount period for Watermyth has now ended and the ebook retails at USD9.99 now. It is a good time to order the book for your library systems because remember, authors get a decent amount of royalties from library orders. In some cases it’s triple what we get from a single purchase. You’d be supporting your library systems by making these orders (it factors into their budgets) and enabling other readers to read the books you ordered. Besides, I will always love the public libraries of the world who are fighting the good fight as we speak.
I plan to blog more frequently here in 2025. 2024 was one of the best years in blogging for me, with readership for this website more than tripling and this has me quite motivated to post more in 2025. I have some posts in drafts and look forward to sharing it with you!
Best Wishes,
Anita
Curious to read my debut novel Watermyth? Here’s the information on how to purchase the ebook (and how to borrow it from the library) and the print edition.
Published in Petaling, Selangor, Malaysia, 2025.