Lupe Farkas · Author of Before October Ends
The Journal
An unfiltered author journal about writing, publishing, indie book marketing, reviews, notebooks, podcast moments and the real work behind Before October Ends and The Tuscan Trilogy.
So, apparently I have a Journal now.
This is the part of the website where nothing has to pretend to be a press release. It is where I write about the days between the books: what I am working on, what annoyed me, what made me laugh, what I changed my mind about, and what actually happens while I try to help readers discover Before October Ends, Book One of The Tuscan Trilogy.
Some entries will be useful. Some will be ridiculous. Some will begin with a book and end somewhere completely unrelated. That is more or less the point.
The book behind the current chaos
Before October Ends: A Life for a Life
Before October Ends is Lupe Farkas’s first-person psychological diary novel and Book One of The Tuscan Trilogy. The Journal documents the less polished side of being the indie author behind it: publishing decisions, visibility experiments, lessons, mistakes, numbers and the daily work of trying to connect the right readers with the book.
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The Indie Author Experiment — Day 3: Appeasing the Goodreads Gods
Migraine, Goodreads drama, a published podcast, platform growth, three ARC requests, five scammers and exactly zero book sales.
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The Indie Author Experiment — Day 2: Release the Kraken
Content batching, social scheduling, website traffic, Canva survival, book sales doing nothing and one very necessary Kraken.
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Stay a while.
This is a journal, not a waiting room. Wander around, click things, laugh at the chaos, follow the experiment and, if the book at the centre of it interests you, meet Before October Ends when you are ready.