Future Books, Author Career, and Branding!

[@MissLottylily]

I have a document on my computer that's called 'story ideas' where I just write down every single book concept that pops into my head. I get anxious that if I don't have it on paper I'll forget about it!

[@LindsayPuckett]

I do a similar thing with note cards!

[@andreannelavoie660]

Lindsay giving Trelawney vibes again: "I have to know what's in the future!" (14:20)

[@LindsayPuckett]

AHHHHHHHH DREAM COME TRUE

[@BreeBuonomo]

I love how your perspective has changed now that you're in the publishing industry! I think that's realistic too - most of our initial thoughts and ideas don't stay consistent over the years :) Also, I love hearing you talk about your books. You can just tell how much you love them and love writing. It's wonderfully inspiring!

[@BreeBuonomo]

Also 12:20 I was dying at your dog 😂

[@LindsayPuckett]

LOL thank you so much, Bree!

[@eulaliacorrigan]

Aww! Your little doggie is like, "what are you doing, mama? Pay attention to me." So adorable! 🥺

[@LindsayPuckett]

LOL thank you! He's a child star lOL

[@aikolactaotao]

Hey Lindsay, I know this comment is late, but I just want to say that your videos make me happy. 😊 I know you have your struggles, especially with your health, and other things us viewers probably don’t know about, but I love it that you exude HOPE. You don’t make your channel a “pity party” nor do you often bitch and whine about your hardships. As I said, you are full of hope about your life and your future, and as a depressed person, that inspires me. Congrats on your two books, and here’s praying for more books for you and a long and successful career ahead. GOD bless you, Ms. Lindsay. ❤

[@LindsayPuckett]

well you just made my NIGHT! Thank you for your kind words

[@KrishanaDavis]

The Series of Unfortunate Events might be one of the best series ever written, tbh. I had to look up the ending because by the time the series ended, I had already graduated from the series.

[@LindsayPuckett]

Yes! The Netflix TV show also clears up the ending, and fills in more info than the books had!

[@meandmywords6748]

As a 14 year old who reads both middle grade and ya all of these sound great and i would love to read them. I am also an apiring writer and you are a big inspiration to me.

[@LindsayPuckett]

Omg that's amazing! Thank you so much for reaching out!

[@TheNovelNana]

I need to work on my branding. I admit it. lol. I love watching your videos because you always have that bright beaming smile and ooze positivity and joy! You are so upbeat and full of energy! You inspire me! I am excited for you and so happy that you are continuing your journey in writing and publishing. Switching genres is going to be an issue for me in the future I am pretty sure. I always have to write down every scrap of info or idea for stories -sometimes in the middle of the night, I find myself reaching for a pen and paper so I won't forget come morning! i love it! "sick,spicy, and spooky"-this is great! I adore you! keep up the amazing work!

[@LindsayPuckett]

Nana! Omg thank you so much! I needed a sweet comment like this today

[@trisha4life17]

Omg!!!!!!!!!!🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🍾🍾🍾🍾🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🐇🐇🐇🔥🔥🔥🧁🧁🧁🧁 yeah!!!! I so loved hearing about all the books I so want to read them all right now!!!!!!!

[@LindsayPuckett]

[@LeilaHolley]

I don't plan out books in advance but that sounds like a great way to do it, and my little planner heart would probably love that.

[@LindsayPuckett]

It's a great procrastination tactic LOL

[@moonpetrie]

Lots of grandmas everywhere! I pretty much always have a grandma or grandma-adjacent character in my books, but never a whole bunch of them. Ideas are suddenly percolating! Also, did you say elbows of time? Is that a thing? I like it. And I don’t have to have several drafting ideas planned in order before starting to draft something, but I had to have several things in various stages of revision before I started querying! This way I have lots of egg baskets, you know?

[@LindsayPuckett]

Eggs in baskets are good things! haha and yes, I heard Sabaa Tahir once talk about writing in elbow of time and I loved it!

[@traceymayhewauthor]

Congratulations on the book deal! The Glass Witch mood board looks amazing!

[@LindsayPuckett]

Thank you so much!!

[@AdaraWrites]

From one book to expanding a brand. Good for you! I love using Natural Reader ^_^

[@LindsayPuckett]

It's so awesome! And thank youuuuu

[@emilykbee6601]

Wow, you're almost up to copy edits!! So exciting. Also, your dog glaring at you towards the end of the video is the best haha

[@LindsayPuckett]

LOOOOL he's so sassy And I knoooooow wild!!!!!!

[@rueroxanne972]

crimson girls sounds incredible! i want to read it right now

[@LindsayPuckett]

Thank you so much! I can't wait to start writing her!

[@CaitlinAsche]

"I have worked too dang hard to not have my name on that thing!" Oooh dang, Lindsay gettin' sPiCy.

[@LindsayPuckett]

loooool

[@fralou_sind_kreativ]

Hey Lindsay :) Catching up with your videos after I took a long break from KZbin. "The Glass Witch" is on my pre-order list. Can't wait to read it. And you other projects sound amazing! Thrilled that you put in topics like ableism in your books!

[@LindsayPuckett]

Thank you so much!!!

[@lucygoodwriter]

I want to be traditionally published and I can’t find many authortubers to talk about it, so hearing your voice and POV really inspires me. I am also the same, I have my next 5 projects lined up and is making me really excited for the next few years. Love your videos!

[@LindsayPuckett]

omg! That's amazing! Ooh well if you don't follow them already, I love Liselle Sambury, Michelle Schusterman, Shaelin Writes, and Alexa Donne's channels (they are all already published) and my critique partner Lainey Kress also has a channel and she is on submission! Kevin The Writer, and Laura Kadner both have agents and make content! :) Just a few channels on trad pub I love!

[@idatherese]

Loved hearing about these ideas and how they go together:) And I really feel what you talked about on branding! I have a deal for my first book which is actually coming out in ..two weeks(!!) That is middle grade, but I kinda identify as a YA author haha. And I have a lot more YA ideas. So I've been thinking about how to "branch out" once I'm done with my three cyborg girl books. But I liked what you said about having reoccuring themes! And everything I do is always about some weirdo, and the pov changes and someone is lying, so I guess that can be the brand rather than age group and genre. In Norway the same editors to both childrens' and YA books tho, so I'm hoping I can keep my editor! Anyway, I'm super excited for your projects, and I hope to read all of these someday^^

[@LindsayPuckett]

omg thank you so much! And yay! 2 weeks away!? That's so exciting. Best of luck on your book release

[@c-hwilliams156]

I want to read all your books like now. 🥳

[@LindsayPuckett]

omggggg

[@gary8628]

Great to see the transition from budding author with no agent to having an agent to having a publishing contract. I'm trying to get an agent at the moment. Enjoying your videos. Keep them coming :)

[@LindsayPuckett]

omg thank you so much! This is exactly why I started my channel :) Ooh and best of luck! Rooting for ya!

[@laikacons]

Girl, I wrote three poetry books in one year. My babies are going to be sold in the future but first self publishing :)

[@LindsayPuckett]

Yes! That's the confidences I want to hear! And 3 poetry books!? Incredible.

[@laikacons]

@@LindsayPuckett thanks!

[@tejaswinisureshkrishnan4228]

How do you manage to write so many stories at the same time?! It's so cool!❤

[@LindsayPuckett]

Oh I don't! They are all one at a time for the most part!

[@emileebeachy6841]

I have my books planned all the way out to 2023, but that is like five series.

[@LindsayPuckett]

That's amazing, Emilee! I'm rooting for ya! :)

[@bookboop]

I am so excited for all of these! I love that you often have a dark/haunted vibe, because that is my jam!

[@LindsayPuckett]

YESSSSS

[@jlslipak1483]

Love your attitude!! Great vid, as always!

[@LindsayPuckett]

thank youuuuuu :)

[@goatracing7651]

Girl I love you! I love your videos and your personality!! I’m an aspiring author finished one book and trying to write another because the first one didn’t work lol 😆 but yeah your videos really give me hope! Keep doing what you’re doing!! You’re really here helping people who want to be traditionally published know how to do it 😊

[@LindsayPuckett]

omg thank you so much! Best of luck!!!!

[@nea.andherbooks]

YES FOR CRIMSON GIRLS!! 🖤🍂Honestly love that vibe so much and I can’t wait to watch your journey writing and hopefully publishing that book! 😍✨

[@LindsayPuckett]

ahhh thank you so much!!!!

[@Neil-writer-author]

I love your videos.

[@LindsayPuckett]

thank youuuuuu

[@therealannataylor]

Okay, first off your earrings are ADORABLE. And now I need little daisies. Second, I think your street urchin/high society infiltration story sounds awesome. I’m a big fan of the mistborn series, so anything that fits those vibes is just…awesome. Third and maybe final, i plan the books, but I honestly can’t stick to it. I have to follow my mood for the stories I write. And if I’m not getting ideas for it or not vibing I can’t mentally make it work. So I have at least a dozen projects in various stages of production that may never actually get done 😩

[@LindsayPuckett]

I don't think that's abnormal, though! I didn't mention it here, but I have a TON of stories that are still only a sentence on a notecard I just can't for the life of me make work (yet....hopefully haha). And omg thank you so much! haha forever21 online for the earrings! also I LOVED the Mistborn series toooooo

[@Sammowrimo]

I can’t wait to read any and all the books you put out! 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

[@LindsayPuckett]

omgggg thank youuuu **cries**

[@AmaraFranklin]

I love this! Have so many ideas that span from ya mystery to adult romance to adult thrillers. I also write novels and screenplays. It is so stressful to think ahead. The way you are doing it is great!

[@LindsayPuckett]

Thank you so much, Amara!

[@saritataurima4717]

I swear you put a video out and I'm immediately inspired to write 🤷‍♀️ 😅 also, stoked to hear about everything and also where you're planning on heading 🙌

[@LindsayPuckett]

omg thank you so much, Sarita!!!!

[@Dragonscales-and-Fairytales]

"As of the Year of Our Lord..." LOL I am deceased. Funny, I caught Alexa's stream today and my next thought was "now all I need is Lindsay" and BLAM here you are. Yayyyy! Hahaha SSS is the acronym of my currently-on-hold little business, that is hilarious. 😂 Yeah, fall is coming way too fast, but that means The Glass Witch will be here soon and I'm here for it. Suuuuper psyched to hear some fantasy is coming though, that is my JAM. Gimme! (S.O.B. stop I can't even) Thanks for sharing your pitches by the way; I'm terrible at those and examples are so nice to see/hear. I doubt you will have aaaaaany trouble selling these bad boys. All your upcoming projects sound pretty darn great. Personally I can't plan out my stories ahead like that bc I get distratSQUIRRELed and I already have trouble finishing things, *sooo* ... Instead I jot down whatever weird ideas I have to come back later and throw in a pot to hopefully make something decent out of. However, since my draft at the moment is (hopefully) going to be a series, I'm planning those out very loosely with notes and ideas as they come so I can track it all and not have someone pop out of the woodwork like "BUT IN BOOK 3 YOU SAID HER EYES WERE GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN, WHAT ELSE HAVE YOU *LIED* ABOUT?!" Muchos love for you Lindsay, you're a bright spot in my day! Or night, as the case may be. ❤

[@LindsayPuckett]

LOL Kat I always enjoy your comments! And I jot down ideas too! I use notecards and they work well for me. And thank you so much!

[@Dragonscales-and-Fairytales]

@@LindsayPuckett Well that makes me smile, thank you

[@candicejenee-soulcadence5040]

Love this! Can’t wait to see your books come into the world. I love writing spoonie characters, too. Or, characters that represent spoonies. We definitely need more representation in fiction!

[@LindsayPuckett]

100%!!!!

[@Dolores_Madil]

I need to have at least three four books planned out. Though when I get new ideas their alway in weird detail and instead of a line I write down for an idea I'll write a full on paragraph sometimes. Also so excited everything is going good for you

[@LindsayPuckett]

I think that's really smart! And thank you so much!

[@MarianaManosso]

so fun! your vibe for writing is so my thing for reading, I am so excited to read all of your books!!!!

[@LindsayPuckett]

omg thank you so much, Mariana!

[@BayleyMae]

So excited for all of your plans! These all sounds so fun!

[@LindsayPuckett]

me tooooo thank you so much!

[@LiselleSambury]

So excited for all your plans!! Also loved hearing about the middle grade option idea and that it’s a series too 🤩

[@LindsayPuckett]

hehe thank youuuuuu for the idea!

[@teeformees9787]

😭😭😭 I have the same fear! I'm working on my palate cleanser right now and the fear is real! Lol I keep thinking... "Could I do this again?" What if this is all they want me to write. So, this video came out at the perfect time! 🖤🖤

[@LindsayPuckett]

ahhhh I'm glad you found it helpful!!!

[@Katlyn_Duncan]

It's all very exciting, Lindsay! I love watching your journey. 😁

[@LindsayPuckett]

Thanks so much, Katlyn!

[@hanawriter]

I love the tone of your videos so much, Lindsay! I stumbled across one of your vlogs about a month ago and just finished watching pretty much your whole backlist! 😂 Your creative energy is wonderful! Also, I loved hearing about all your projects! 💜

[@LindsayPuckett]

omg thank you so much, Hana!!!

[@YouFoundMarina]

Ahh I love this so much! You're radiating joy, which just shows this is where you should be. I cannot wait for fall 2022! 💕

[@LindsayPuckett]

ahhhh thank you so much!!!!

[@JoeyPaulOnline]

These all sound so awesome and I can't wait to read them all!

[@LindsayPuckett]

awh thanks so much, Joey! Let's hope they happen lol

[@trisha4life17]

Are you still planning to try to redo “when the sea came for us?” Or will it stay on the shelf? I am so read to read your books!!!!! You are an amazing role model and I can’t wait you to get all the recognition that you deserve!!!!

[@LindsayPuckett]

For right now, it's going to chill! I still plan on reworking it one day, but it's not going to help my career in the current publishing environment, so I'm focusing on books I can actually sell right now. But It **WILL** happen! I might even end up self publishing it if no publisher will buy it LOL you know in like 10 years when I get around to it XD

[@LindsayPuckett]

also THANK YOU YOU ARE ALWAYS THE SWEETEST!!!!!!!

[@MikaylaKennedy]

Is The Glass Witch on Goodreads yet? I am having trouble finding it.

[@LindsayPuckett]

Not yet!

[@MrRorosuri]

💫💫💫💫💫💫

[@LindsayPuckett]