The first thing to note is that setting up a book signing
event as an independent author can be extremely difficult but not impossible; nothing ever is.
As an independent author winning a book award increases your credibility, improves your ability to market your books or series, and gives you more solid visibility all over the current book market.
If you're constantly changing fiction genres with each and every book you
publish as an independent author starting out, you won't get the benefit of building that loyal readership that is willing to buy your books because they know what to expect.
This cooperative analysis is the another step of my authorpreneur plan series, where I'm sharing how I'm controlling my
fate as an independent author.
But if you are willing — or even excited — to take a hands - on role managing the editing, design, and marketing of your book, you are in a position to
thrive as an independent author.
Independent authors like Hugh Howey, Darcie Chan and Bella Andre have earned very good
income as independent authors who embraced the changes in publishing and how to reach readers.
In this session, Kobo Writing Life's European Manager Camille Mofidi will cover the fundamentals of Digital Self - Publishing and share key elements on how to start and grow an international
audience as an independent author with Kobo's self - publishing platform, Kobo Writing Life.
You can still do that today however if you want to be taken
seriously as an independent author then you should also make your ebooks available at the major ebook stores that have emerged in recent years such as Amazon's Kindle Store and Barnes & Noble's Nook Books.
It's a conference in which you're not being pitched from the stage by author services, but instead being handed the conceptual and practical tools you need to make your best
decisions as an independent author: one who thinks for him - or herself.
Christine Frost presents
Marketing As An Independent Author posted at Her Raven Domain: Blog of Author Christine Frost, saying, «An article about marketing tips based on notes from conference about using social media and technology.»
You have had a novel published by Sydney - based Murdoch Books, followed by a novel
published as an independent author and, more recently, have signed a three - novel deal with Amazon's Lake Union imprint.
Choosing to self - publish from the moment he googled «publishing a book», Ben realised he could apply his knowledge of the music industry and being an independent artist into
working as an independent author.
What more might he have been capable of, had he been able to make a
living as an independent author, with rights to income from reproduction of his works, and without the self - censorship that patronage implies?