Kojiki

Dealing With Backstory

Early on, Kojiki suffered from an abundance of backstory. The problem persisted right up until the final drafts. My editor and I wend over and over the many chapters I'd written about the past and critical events that happened well before Kojiki's story starts. In the end, I kept the most crucial and summarized the rest. It provided a great foundation for the book, but I still wanted to do more with it. The solution came after I attended a marketing panel at BEA last May. Panelists from Kobo and InScribe said one of the best ways for an author to increase his/her visibility with e-store algorithms is to write a free short story. Viola! Kojiki's backstory will be available soon as a three part short story. For free!