writing diary #7, 2026

Writers talk about the finished book.

I talk about the machinery behind it.

Writing Diary #7, 2026 is live — and it’s the unfiltered breakdown of what it actually looks like to build a writing career week by week.

Inside this week:

• 0.99 promo results for Ghosts Among the Gumtrees (and why I’ve stopped obsessively tracking sales)
• My exact Facebook ads strategy — $5/day, manual targeting, what’s working
• Kickstarter for Mad Dawn Winter finally approved (after a glitch I caused 🙃)
• How I structure a professional media kit (and why every author needs one)
• Revising Book 4 of the Seka Torlak series and why giving a manuscript time matters
• Five library events locked in for 2026
• Mentoring emerging writers + first memoir workshop of the year

This diary isn’t just “I wrote 1,000 words.”

It’s business strategy, emotional reality, marketing experiments, revision struggles, and the long game of being an indie author who refuses to wait for permission.

If you’re curious about how books actually get built — not just written — this one’s for you.

https://open.substack.com/pub/amrasarmchairanecdotes/p/writing-diary-7-2026?r=i0jxk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true