: Re: Should I release my novel now... or miss a golden opportunity? I just finished writing the first draft of my novel. (BTW, this is my first) As luck would have it, something just popped up

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Finish your book, make it the best you can, move on to the next

95% of the time, first novels are garbage. First drafts of first novels, even more so.

Now, it's possible that you're an exception, and you have managed to produce something that is good enough to ride the crest of the trend to reasonable sales. As an anonymous internet person, I have no way to tell. But the odds are not in your favor. It's far more likely that your novel will end up in the vast pool of other mediocre works trying to cash in on the trend. (The fact that you started the story before the trend began is immaterial - the audience has no way of judging that, and wouldn't care even if they could.)

10-20 years isn't a bad timeline.

It can take decades for an author to jumpstart their career. And for plenty of authors, it isn't their first published novel that makes it big. Continue writing novels and improving your craft, and by the time this topic comes around again, you'll be prepared to publish your story as the masterpiece it deserves to be.

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