Thanks for bringing up the consideration of what to leave out. I’ve struggled with this. Eventually, I decided to leave out a significant fact for complicated reasons, including that the person was dead. As to book sales, of course we all want to write books that sell well but I can’t guess what that might be. One of mine continues to sell well but two others are out of print. One of them I totally love. It’s so under appreciated I plan to go back and pitch a revision to the publisher. Go figure.
Thanks for bringing up the consideration of what to leave out. I’ve struggled with this. Eventually, I decided to leave out a significant fact for complicated reasons, including that the person was dead. As to book sales, of course we all want to write books that sell well but I can’t guess what that might be. One of mine continues to sell well but two others are out of print. One of them I totally love. It’s so under appreciated I plan to go back and pitch a revision to the publisher. Go figure.