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What subjects do you write about? Any place we can look at your books?
by akudha 6y ago
What subjects do you write about? Any place we can look at your books?
- inglor_cz 6y agoMostly popular history. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18339067.Marian_Kechlibar https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18339067.Marian_Kechli... Everything so far has only been published in Czech, though.
- akudha 6y agoI’m surprised that you can live off of history books! Very cool.
- inglor_cz 6y agoBelieve me, I was surprised too. Very surprised. The stereotype of a famished author is pretty strong here :) Thing is, without middle-men (distributors, bookshops), most of the revenue accrues to you directly. Long live e-commerce.
- p2detar 6y agoI can imagine that you have built some sort of strong followers community to promote your books? I mean how do readers find your books?
- inglor_cz 6y agoI write quite a lot of (commentary) articles on my blog and some other Czech portals reprint them. This helped me build up a community of readers.
- exdsq 6y agoI started writing a popular history book a few years ago and found it really tough once I actually dug into it! Kudos on publishing so many and with such good reviews. Can I ask if you have an academic background in history?
- inglor_cz 6y agoI do not. It is just my passion since I learnt to read. Around the age of 35 I realized that there was a lot of interesting and weird stories to share with others and I started narrating them in an online magazine published by my friend. For example, life and death of Hernando de Soto, the unsuccessful conquistador. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernando_de_Soto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernando_de_Soto). People liked the format and actually started to send micropayments. It still took several years before I actually tried to put together a book. I started a crowd-sourcing attempt which, to my (pleasant) surprise gathered over 300 per cent of the target sum. Now I am hooked to the lifestyle :-)