u/Pearl_MS99

Oi, gente. Sou nova aqui e cheguei com aquele combo clássico de autora estreante: felicidade, orgulho, vulnerabilidade e um leve pânico.

Depois de anos de trabalho, publiquei meu primeiro livro: Rest In War - Vol I - O fim da inocência.

E eu falo “publiquei” com toda a emoção possível porque, sinceramente, esse projeto me acompanhou por tanto tempo que em alguns momentos parecia quase uma entidade da casa. O detalhe é que ele começou primeiro em inglês, porque a ideia original era uma série, e depois foi adaptado por mim para o português em forma de romance.

O livro é um drama histórico, muito movido por conflito psicológico, moral, contradições humanas e personagens que fogem de respostas prontas. É o tipo de história que não me deixou escrever no automático em nenhum momento.

Agora, dito isso, vem meu momento de sinceridade pública: eu não entendo quase nada de divulgação.

Meu negócio sempre foi o processo criativo. Escrever, revisar, estruturar, pensar o tom, os personagens, a atmosfera, o ritmo. Essa parte eu amo. Mas divulgar, vender, saber como falar da obra sem parecer um folheto ambulante... aí já é outro esporte. Sou péssima em vendas e até quando o assunto é interações sociais.

Sempre fui muito introspectiva e reclusa, muito confortável no meu próprio universo e nas minhas histórias. Isso me alimentou por anos, mas agora percebo como também me deixou pouco preparada para essa fase em que o livro precisa sair das minhas mãos e encontrar o mundo.

Então além de compartilhar essa alegria enorme de ter publicado meu primeiro livro, também queria abrir essa conversa com vocês:

Como vocês lidam com divulgação?
Foi natural? Qual o segredo? Clubes do livro? Venda de porta em porta?

Aceito dicas, relatos, conselhos, rituais, simpatias e qualquer sabedoria de guerra literária. E, claro, se alguém quiser conhecer o livro, vou adorar também.

Sometimes I think one of the strangest things about writing is how deeply it can fill your inner world while quietly leaving your outer world a little empty.

For me, writing has never felt like “creating characters” in a cold or technical way. It feels more like meeting them. Listening to them. Following them. Some stories arrive with such emotional force and fluency that it almost feels like I’m discovering something rather than inventing it.

I’ve always loved solitude, and I genuinely love the private, introspective life that writing gives me. But lately I’ve been feeling the other side of that more strongly too, especially now that I’m trying to share my work and actually bring readers toward it. Writing feels natural to me. Marketing, visibility, and self-promotion do not.

I write historical drama, which can feel like an even lonelier corner sometimes. I love stories shaped by melancholy, moral conflict, psychological depth, and the emotional weight of history, but it’s not always easy to find people who want to talk about those things with the same intensity.

So I guess I’m sharing this partly because I’m curious: Does anyone else feel this way?
Do you ever feel so fulfilled by writing itself that you forget to build the social side of being an author, only to realize later how much that support system matters?

And if you write historical drama, literary fiction, or emotionally heavy stories, I’d especially love to hear from you.

Also, this is the mindset from which my novel Rest In War was born, a WWII historical drama shaped by inner conflict, emotional tension, and the kind of questions that don’t offer easy answers. If anyone is curious, I’m happy to share the link too.

Some stories are born from love.
This one was born from conflict.

Rest In War began with a question that stayed with me for a long time: what happens when human emotion begins to break through the walls built by fear, ideology, duty, and war?

I’ve always been fascinated by historical drama, psychology, and the inner contradictions that shape people under extreme circumstances. Not only the battles fought in the world, but the ones fought in silence, inside the soul.

The conflict between conviction and emotion. Between what we believe we should be and what we actually are. Between our nature, our ideals, and the impossible standards we sometimes try to live up to. That is where this novel came from.

Set during World War II, Rest In War is a historical drama about trauma, faith, cruelty, forbidden emotion, and the impossible choices people make when survival itself begins to blur the lines between morality, longing, and self-preservation.

Synopsis:
In occupied Poland, Lena Kowalski, a devout Catholic schoolteacher, refuses to submit to the new regime. Her quiet resistance pulls her into the machinery of the Reich, where faith, conscience, and survival begin to collide. Opposite her stands Thomas Schauren, a young German soldier shaped by indoctrination and emotional repression, until war starts exposing the fractures beneath the uniform. Around them, prisoners, collaborators, and children reveal the full spectrum of human nature under terror: courage and betrayal, tenderness and cruelty, and the fragile hope that compassion might still survive.

If that sounds like something that might speak to you, here’s the link:
https://www.amazon.com/Rest-War-I-End-Innocence/dp/6501924979/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0

When you click, you’ll be able to see the available editions and also read the free sample from the beginning of the book, which may give you a better feel for the story than I can in a single post.

And if you do decide to give it a chance, I’d genuinely love to hear your thoughts.