Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning and Author Groups

My wife and I watched the latest Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning and theaters, and I personally liked it. There are valid criticisms of the movie such as the length of the movie, and that there are so many MacGuffins utilized that they had to recap the overall mission more than once. However, there was an overall feeling of danger throughout the movie with Ethan Hunt barely escaping a lot of tricky situations. The action was good, and of course, Tom Cruise did his trademark intense running. The side cast was good as well, introducing some characters who were memorable.

I joined some Facebook author groups recently and have been ingratiating myself to their communities. Some allow me to advertise and market my works, and I did advertise The Mustard Prince in the Condiment Kingdom on some of them. With one group, I did get a few Likes and comments, so that was nice, but it was not some sort of significant number. There are many people who are in the process of writing a book or who are published in the fantasy genre. However, it is not necessarily a competition but just getting a niche audience to like my product. I also feel that I am doing something a bit different than author fantasy books out there, as The Mustard Prince in the Condiment Kingdom is closer to a Japanese Light Novel than the fantasy novels that I’ve been seeing.

I do not know if Final Reckoning will be the end of the Mission Impossible franchise, but it looks like it could be, for now. Hopefully, we will see some new works out there that could potentially be big-time franchises. It is all about taking that initial risk, as who knows what the final outcome will be?