Sentences with phrase «indie authors detailed»

Frances Caballo presents Goodreads Quick Start Guide for Indie Authors posted at BookWorks Blog, saying, «BookWorks Social Media Expert Frances Caballo provides indie authors detailed instructions to getting up to speed on Goodreads, THE social network for readers.»

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For the complete look at this recent Author Earnings report and the detailed breakdown of how page views are impacting indie authors, click here.

I explain in detail how I use this software in The Indie Author's Guide to Publishing Ebooks.

As an indie author, you can also make edits to your book cover, your price, and other important details based on reader feedback before you move to a final version, and this is not something traditional deals typically allow.

I discuss all these topics — the importance of editing and how best to get it; legacy marketing vs indie marketing; how an author can decide what's best for him or her — in greater detail in a talk I gave at Grub Street Writers earlier this month.

Indie authors tend to write blurbs that go into the plot details.

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.

Susan's Indie Author Survival Guide goes into the process in great detail.

A Tome About Promo for Indie Authors: My detailed take on how to promote yourself as an indie author on a shoestring buIndie Authors: My detailed take on how to promote yourself as an indie author on a shoestring buindie author on a shoestring budget.

Events are designed to explain the details of this process to authors and to promote the availability of self - published works through indie bookstore websites.

We cover a lot of ground during this interview, going into some detail on Bobbi's publication schedule, revisiting the rationale for her pre-order process, we discuss her marketing efforts, and we discuss the reason she works with an agent as an indie author.

You can search at Amazon for the «Indie Author Guide To Publishing For The Kindle With Amazon's Digital Text Platform, Mobipocket Creator & MS Word 2003 Or Higher» for fullest details about creating NCX file and block paragraphing for Kindle publishing.

Of course, there are the financial details that all indie authors like to hear about: if published, authors receive:

With his first self - published title in the early 80s, through his continuing works that detail the technology and the options that are available for authors, he may know more about indie publishing than anyone other professional.

Ahead of the official launch of the Opening Up to Indie Authors guidebook, The Bookseller releases full details of the launch in association with Kobo Writing Life.

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.

This webinar will detail what indie authors and publishers need to consider in order to have a professionally published book.

Explaining in a little more detail than in my previous comment (I'm still recovering from a head cold)... I guess you can say that I'm one of those «successful indie authors» Randy mentioned because this year, my royalties are in the upper five - figure range.

For those interested in such matters, other indie authors specifically, this colophon details the hardware and software products that were employed in their creation.

When you write an original story, you automatically own the copyright for that story (in almost all cases — see Copyright 101 for Indie Authors for details).

I covered this in more detail in my last guest post on Jeri's site 4 Invaluable Tips for Indie Authors.

In today's Publetariat Dispatch, indie author Zoe Winters details the time, effort and expense that go into bringing a new indie book to market.

Self - publishing a book is a big undertaking, and indie authors must keep track of countless details.

You have already subscribed to attend our Indie Author Fringe Conference and we'll send you details about our upcoming event.

She is a voracious reader, indie author, and a detail - ninja of the highest caliber.

But then I find another detail to resolve, either with the story itself of some production - type issue that we as indie - authors have only ourselves to count on for resolution.

While I don't plan on revealing any detail on the excellent material presented in this curriculum (if you are interested, the fee is just $ 5 a month for monthly lessons, and I would highly recommend signing up and / or purchasing a copy of April Hamilton's Indie Author Guide), I am using the subject headings of the sixteen «lessons» in the curriculum to evaluate my own attempts at promotion of my historical mystery, Maids of Misfortune: A Victorian San Francisco Mystery.

But I do wonder how many of them actually do... I know the Authors Earnings statistics give a very positive view of the indie market but it doesn't provide a detailed view of the distribution of sales.

He started out with pretty unprofessional book covers that embody the design tastes of most indie authors (they focus on scenes and symbolism and details, instead of being simple...

As an indie author looking to boost her sales, I find it refreshing that someone would offer so many details on what works and what doesn't.

Fellow indie authors who are sharing their launch plans, screenshots from their sales dashboards, asking for advice on covers they are having designed and talk through the most in - the - weeds details about email lists.

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Indie Author David Gaughran wrote a fantastic article detailing exactly how Author Solutions takes advantage of writers.

These two excellent, detailed guides from prolific indie author Joanna Penn explain in very straightforward terms how to go about self - publishing in both ebook and print formats.

Writer's Beware had a detailed post about piracy problems with Scribd, and many indie authors were furious when Smashwords began aggregating to Scribd without prior consent of authors.

Although Indie Alley was preserved for indie authors as a new addition, the print program showed no specific details where attendees shoulIndie Alley was preserved for indie authors as a new addition, the print program showed no specific details where attendees shoulindie authors as a new addition, the print program showed no specific details where attendees should go.

The details on who will be featured in the digital panel presentation that will take place at 2 pm EST on Indie Author Day will be announced mid-June.

A lot of indie authors send extremely rude review requests (I've done a blog post on my blog if you want more details and direct quotes.)

I see so many indie authors describe their characters in the greatest detail, and usually all within one paragraph... but that usually doesn't work well because you overwhelm your readers with description.

Speakers include graphic artist and illustration mastermind Jean Jullien, whose iconic» Peace for Paris» symbol became an instant global meme; children's book author and illustrator You Jung Byun, known for her detailed narrative and commissioned work inhabited by strange beasts and lost children; everyone's favourite gif - wunderkind Julian Glander, creator of bubblegum - coloured digital illustration, indie games and interactive artwork, all subsumed under the catchword «digital toys»; animator, writer, and producer Ben Bocquelet, creator of the famed animation series «The Amazing World of Gumball `; Martina Paukova, illustrator with an incredibly fast - paced career, whose jam - packed images in a trademark palette and Memphis - inspired patterns mirror our mundane lives in the digital age; and Jaime Álvarez, renowned for his 3D rendered Mr. Kat (PE) universe, fusing pre-Columbian with contemporary kawaii aesthetics.