Jana Martin: From marketing to the bestselling author in Leonding!

Jana Martin: From marketing to the bestselling author in Leonding!

The 44-year-old author Jana Martin from Leonding caused a stir again with her latest work. Her fourth book will be released in February 2025, even though she started her career in autumn 2023 with her first novel. "I was not a good boy" emerged from a single sentence that no longer wanted to disappear in her head, Martin remembers the creative process that surprised her. In just two weeks she wrote over 60,000 words, which made her clear that she had a finished book in her hand. This story gives an idea that she has already developed her passion for writing with full power, as meinzirk.at reports .

Martin, who feels at home in the genre Thriller and Psychothriller, has already published two more novels. Her books are characterized by dark topics and surprising plot twists-elements that make them unmistakable for their readers. She emphasizes that independent authors are not only about writing itself, but also about marketing in order to be perceived in the mass of three to four million books published every year. Here she was lucky: Book bloggers discovered her work and made an important contribution to visibility with her positive reviews, as she explained in conversation. Your marketing strategies are based on the increased use of social media and partnerships within the author community to obtain feedback and support.

new projects and challenges

Nevertheless, she sees her challenges, because the path to a full -time author is rocky. It is far from enough to write a book; Happiness and the right contacts are also required. "You can write the best book, and yet it will never sell if nobody knows about it," says Martin. The pressure to assert yourself on the book market is enormous because several thousand authors in Austria are fighting for the attention of readers. But the passion of writing and the anticipation for the upcoming work motivated you to fight for your dream despite all the challenges. According to penguin.de it is important that readers who would love to discover the stories also find their time to read them.