Is There a Good or Bad Time to Publish a Book?

Is There a Good or Bad Time to Publish a Book?

Every day is a good day to publish a book.

Why?

Because there are just too many variables that we cannot control out there.

Trends change. Momentous social events shift the mood and reader interest. What feels like a good and interesting book may look totally out of place tomorrow.

We also change. What we feel like publishable today may not draw our interest tomorrow. When our interest wanes, you won’t feel like publishing that book to anyone even though it may still be useful for a reader.

I published dozens of books on Amazon Kindle and I have always published on topics that interested me at the moment. The result is, some of my interests are not there anymore but the books still sell since there is always someone at my previous interest point today.

Without that initial energy of love and interest, I could never publish those books had I waited for that elusive “opportune moment.” That would be a perfect case of “paralysis of analysis.”

For example, once upon a time, I was very interested in Asian Cinema since I’m a movie fan. Today I’m not that interested in that genre anymore but the book I wrote at the time, “11 Asian Films from China, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan: In-Depth Reviews of Selected New Masterworks from Asian Cinema” still sells a few copies every month. No harm is done.

So go ahead and publish at your heart’s content. Don’t wait a second. You are a writer. Readers will eventually find you even if you or the world has moved on to a different wavelength of the day.