She writes historical fiction, and is well known in
the indie author world for «The Self - Publisher's Legal Handbook», which I seriously recommend several times a week.
The award provides the opportunity to highlight diverse voices in
the indie author world.
I mean just to be clear, this is the Salon, where Orna and I basically talk about the things that we found interesting in
the indie author world in the last month and reflect upon those experiences.
This weekend I attended a full day workshop with my role models, online mentors and author hero's who are making serious waves in
the indie author world!
She writes historical fiction, and is well known in
the indie author world for The Self - Publisher's Legal Handbook and has also recently co-written How Authors Sell Publishing Rights with Orna Ross (which we recently discussed on the podcast here).
I started thinking about what I do for my clients and how that is different from
the Indie Author world.
This podcast, which is hosted by AMI founder Jim Kukral and author Bryan Cohen, is a 30 - 40 minute news program that covers the latest stories in
the indie author world.
I think your providing a valuable service to
the indie author world by telling us, and showing us, what it takes to succeed.
Sean, Johnny and Dave do it all the time and they are now creating their own empire within
the indie author world.
thank you Emily for your open appraisal of
the indie author world.
How do you promote your book in this complicated
indie author world?
Linda, I don't think * lack * of business experience is necessarily a handicap in
the indie author world, though.
This means that if you have a series of books, price the first one as permanently free or «perma - free» as is widely known in
the indie author world.
In
the indie author world, there are few topics as hotly debated as that of ebook pricing.
The indie author world was aflutter with talk June 15 when Amazon announced it was changing the way it paid authors who joined the Kindle Direct Publishing Select Program.
I will continue to share the good, the bad, and the ugly of
the indie author world right here on Fictive Universe.
Not exact matches
Shel is the primary
author of both Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the
World (endorsed by Seth Godin, Jack Canfield, Cynthia Kersey, and many others) and the earlier Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green (named a Groundbreaking
Indie Book by Independent Publisher magazine) and an international speaker.
All this really shows is that no matter how bad Amazon treats
indie authors, everyone else in the publishing
world can't get their act together or offer anything even remotely worthwhile for us.
Nothing infuriates me more in this frontier
world of
indie publishing, than the
author who ends their book on a cliff hanger.
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Indie Authors with advanced book marketing strategies.
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RB: You work with a lot of
indie authors with your
World Literary Cafe.
As an
indie author with a finger on the pulse of the self - publishing
world and bookseller industry in general, I was surprised when I received a text from my decades - older father a few days ago:
Most successful
indie authors these days (I'm talking everyone from Dean Wesley Smith and J.A. Konrath to Amanda Hocking and E.L. James) are operating in both
worlds.
I think it's fair to say that when people talk about the
indie movement in the book
world, we're really talking about a broad set of configurations from small presses to collectives of writers to individual
authors, whether they create their own imprint or just operate as a self - published
author in the Amazon or Smashwords universes.
It allows
indie authors to distribute their eBooks all over the
world.
You're a tech writer on the internet... you're barely tangentially connected to that
world by the devices people use to consume
indie authors» books.
So maybe you should get over yourself and actually read some of the books put out by
indie authors before you open your mouth and look like an idiot to the
world.
I think Scout is a really great idea and will assist in a huge problem in the publishing
world, the dirge of
indie author titles.
There is also Kindle Singles, Kindle
Worlds and more
indie author offerings than you can shake a stick at.
The vast majority of
indie authors don't contribute anything good to the literary
world and often incur the ire of many of the greatest writers of our time.
All we keep hearing from the
world of successful, bestselling
indie authors is that they owe their success to their fans who are active on social media.
Foster, whose thirty - plus
indie books have sold over one million copies and have landed on both the New York Times and USA Today bestsellers» lists, is also the founder of two sites for
indie authors,
World Literary Cafe and Fostering Success.
I was a big fan of Scout and thought it solved a huge problem in the publishing
world, the dirge of
indie author titles.
Smashwords joined up with OverDrive to make
indie authors» titles available in libraries around the
world, and Simon & Schuster provided access to a massive backlist of ebooks to... [Read more...]
Self - published
authors are expanding into conferences throughout the
world, with some
indie - centric events hitting the big time like
Author Marketing Live, PubSense Summit, and IndieRecon.
It's the professional organisation for self - published writers and
indie authors all over the
world, launched by bestselling novelist Orna Ross just over two years ago.
It signifies many things to me; it's part of a broader movement dear to
indie authors around the
world; writing, publishing and making a lot of money from book sales is basically all I plan to do for the rest of my life.
To suggest it's a level playing field for
indie authors is to ignore the facts, even within the US, let alone in that big wide
world beyond.
Make sure to check out this IBBS Rafflecopter giveaway — you could win lots of great books from some amazing
indie authors, including copies of «Stumbling Backasswards Into the Light» and «Walking Between
Worlds; Book I: Demons & Angels ``!
Okay, this one's entirely selfish but the
world does not need another low quality, unprofessional, poopy
indie author.
One of the great things about the rise of
indie publishing is its accessibility — all it takes is an internet connection for an
author to reach the whole
world.
Fill up your reading device with all the
worlds you can imagine, help
indie authors, and also benefit a great charity.
In a newly - published white paper from Bloomington - based
Author Solutions, a
world leader in
indie book publishing, Keith Ogorek enumerates four clear paths that
authors may follow to achieve their publishing goals.
This year we have some amazing work by
world - class fantasy
authors as well as the best of the up - and - coming
indie authors in the genre.
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Authors Get Into Bookstores Self - publishing services provider Blurb has launched a series of initiatives designed to help
indie authors get their print books into bookstores, -LSB
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As the
world's largest distributor of
indie ebooks, Smashwords lets you bypass having to deal with multiple
author platforms by letting you upload your book and immediately start selling at more than 20 ebook retailers.
Around the
world, there are many translation services for a fee, but these services are nearly always too expensive for
indie authors.
Look out
world, there is a wide - eyed
indie author on the loose!
This is a detailed commentary on the fact that
indie authors don't get no respect because reviewers are so firmly oriented toward the «real» (i.e.traditional) publishing
world.