Like interning or freelance writing with no contract or financial agreement in place beyond maybe a few bucks, guest blogging to
help out other authors and hoping to gain a few readers, blog tours where again, you read and review to
help out other authors, and yes, even blogging, all of it is done for free with little to no compensation and no guarantee it will further your writerly aspirations in the long run.
Use it as a way to get your book out there, as well as
help out other authors and books you love!
Not exact matches
Others start
out as
authors of self -
help books.
I will say the same thing I told the
other guy if you can't figure
out who the
authors of the bible are not even I can
help you.
This will
help you stand
out from the
other authors & businesses in your niche.
Suddenly,
authors will need to navigate their process alone or seek
out other self - publishing service providers for
help.
Most of my work here involves
helping out with support emails the
others pass along and also drumming up new business (on both the
author and reviewer side of things).
Quillen is
out to
help other authors.
It's also a great way for new
authors to
help each
other out.
It is left up to self - publishers to
help other authors meet their goals, and get great books
out in the world for readers who want them.
Other self - publishing authors are in the same boat as you and need reviews, why not help each other
Other self - publishing
authors are in the same boat as you and need reviews, why not
help each
otherother out?
My dog Max enjoys taking me for walks every day and I review books for
other authors to
help them
out.
I love keeping up with
other publishing professionals on Twitter, and I want to
help the crowd of aspiring
authors (both fiction and nonfiction) that hangs
out there.
In addition, I recommend advertising on the free sites using
Author Marketing Club or Book Marketing Tools — free to hit them all up but time - consuming OR it's 14.99 to send
out an announcement to about 35 - 40 free sites — if you want to be on the «biggies» i.e., Freebooksy or Kindle Nation Daily and
others, you have to contact and pay them directly — but that can also
help.
On the blog, I'm featuring writing tips, interviews with
other authors, short stories or snippets of my WIP (recently I wrote a short backstory piece to
help thrash
out character motivation).
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Help other authors out.
It's inspiring when a successful
author goes
out of his way to
help others in the craft of writing.
Help out other self - published
authors.
There is another website called Authorbuddies, where
authors from different countries with translations can
help each
other out.
Meditating on your own strategy doesn't
help you grow as a book publicist (or as an
author or publisher who's promoting books); finding
out how your associates have created their successes, on the
other hand, opens up the possibility of doing things more effectively all the time.
Now her days are filled with exploring Denver, checking
out the locales frequented by Mark MacFarland and his associates; recounting the exploits of MacFarland; and occasionally attempting to write a blog to
help other aspiring
authors.
Talking to
other authors in my sub-genres
helps because I find
out if I fit in with them or not, and we share information about readers; it becomes personal in a way.
I have often heard self - published
authors say they needed more than one book to make serious money and I think this can work for translators as well with a mixture of different models, as marketing one book can
help to make
others visible as well — the more you have
out there, the better.
I would also recommend checking
out her website, which has tons of videos and
other information, designed to
help new
authors succeed.
Or they'll hang
out a shingle and try to make a few bucks
helping other independent
authors realize their own pent - up dreams.
I appreciate your sharing this with your readers, too: it
helps other authors who are figuring
out what they want to do.
The guidelines for submitting a book for review are listed on the Indie Reader website, along with a detailed description of
other tools that are available to
help not only
authors, but the readers who want to find quality reads in the overwhelming sea of self - published works
out there.
A forerunner of the modern agent / impresario, he secured Spencer a New York publisher, Appleton and Co.; pressed for - and won - royalties on a par with native
authors» at a time when most American houses ignored international copyrights; churned
out scores of reviews and notices with publication of each new volume, which he placed in newspapers and magazines across the country; pressed
other reviewers into service;
helped Spencer organize and popularize his most arcane thoughts; and cultivated literary clubs, college professors, editors, ministers, politicians, tycoons, and labor councils.
Check
out our resource library here at The Kill Zone (down the right sidebar), as well as blogs like Writer Unboxed, Janice Hardy's Fiction University (formerly The
Other Side of the Story), K. M. Weiland's
Helping Writers Become
Authors, Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi's Writers
Helping Writers (formerly The Bookshelf Muse), Elizabeth Craig's Mystery Writing is Murder, Joanna Penn's The Creative Penn, John Yeoman's The Wicked Writing Blog, and more.
And, click here to check
out our
other website to
help authors looking for Christian nonfiction literary agents at Literary Agent Undercover.
And, click here to check
out our
other website to
help authors searching for a list of Christian literary agents at Literary Agent Undercover.
And, click here to check
out our
other website to
help authors seeking Christian literary agencies at Literary Agent Undercover.
Lit agents can
help authors figure
out which work would be best sold to
other venues prior to going to market and what work is best served direct.
Hopefully we can get
authors / readers to
help other authors out by reviewing their books without breaking the bank.
Especially, if you're an indie
author, you should
help to show
others that there are some quality indie books
out there.
In my experience in working with
others, fielding zillions of phone calls and emails of complaints, I've concluded that ASI and all its offspring are
out to exploit
authors rather than
help them sell books.
So check
out what
other unknown
authors are charging in your genre to
help you decide what to do.
And it's certainly true that as Barton winds into her recitative --» I Set
Out To Build a Platform Called Book Country» — we're reminded of the many times we've read what seemed like a wholly informative blog post from an
author only to find the
other shoe dropping: «So that's why I wrote this how - to book, to
help you with your writing,» etc., you know the drill.
Some of them are 100 % not recommended, but
others might actually be worth checking
out or completely necessary, and hopefully over time you can develop your own list of recommended services (and horror stories to
help other authors avoid bad ones!).
I applaud Mr Correia's efforts to
help other authors get noticed and I'm wondering if perhaps maybe he should encourage these those who participate in his book bombs to spread
out their purchases over the space of, say, a week or so.
It is so true as
others have stated, there are few established
authors / writers who will reach
out and
help newbies.
I think that it's important that indie
authors help each
other out by recommending services that they have used, and I hope this post
helps indie
authors make a decision as to which service they ultimately use, whether it's BookBaby or another publisher.
And, click here to check
out our
other website to
help authors looking for Christian literary agents for children's books at Literary Agent Undercover.
One
other friend of mine left he was in the real estate space wrote a book with with a major publishing house and then a few years later stopped he left real estate and went into a really strong personal development business and the publisher went up well you're not promoting this book anymore and they took his book word - for - word and put somebody else's name on the cover of it and just put a new introduction on it no credit to anybody he had worked because he had two co-
authors help him with it because he's dyslexic so they essentially were the ones that wrote it and he provided a lot of the content and the publisher gave those
other authors no credit took his name off and put somebody else's name on the front and then the publisher was 100 % within their rights to do it so you know there's a lot of things that I challenge people to kind of think about what's important and if you're putting all your expertise into this book you want to make sure that somebody's negotiated a heck
out of it giving you a contract that actually makes sense for you and your business.
Authors love to
help each
other out, especially when it's a win - win situation.
I think it definitely plays to every indie
author's advantage to orchestrate a box set set per the advice in my prior box set post because once the box set is
out there, not only
help you reach more readers but it will also make you a contender when iBooks or some
other retailer is looking to do another box set promotion.
Author and public - relations star Sandra Beckwith provides articles, training programs and
other resources that
help take the guesswork
out of book marketing.
With all of the new books
out there it will be important for
authors with a strong following to
help and support each
other with combined books and perhaps even combining book tours.
Most indie
authors are eager to
help each
other out, but few have been effective at actually reaching young adult readers and selling a lot of books (but I know a bunch of YA
authors who are selling over 20K books a month, and I plan to interview them soon!)
I know $ 6.99 might be lower than
other works
out there by published
authors, but that seems awful high for a eBook and I can't
help but think it would kill sales.