Sentences with phrase «indie authors do»

Now, before you take issue with the word professional or think that I'm trying to insult people, all I mean is that many indie authors don't treat their writing and their book promotion as a business.

In essence, this comes down to marketing, which many indie authors don't understand at all.

While most traditionally - published authors pay an agent, not all of them do... and while most indie authors don't pay an agent, some do.

It certainly seems like something is up, and unfortunately, most indie authors don't have the consistent sales to stay up in the rankings without either freebies, tags, likes or something else.

Because I treat writing with great reverence I can't get my head around the idea that some indie authors don't bother to edit their own work.

Don't do anything of the things you think new indie authors don't need to do.

So by «wrong» I mean, «inefficient» — as in, these are things indie authors do, but that they should stop doing because they don't produce positive results (and can actually do more harm than good).

While those figures might sound exciting, indie authors do not uniformly agree.

With statistics that say most indie authors don't make more than $ 200 per book, I'd hope new to the game authors will stop and consider that.

A lot of indie authors do their own copy editing and line editing.

That's not as easy as it sounds, and if I were to guess, I would say 75 % ~ 90 % of indie authors don't ever make it to $ 1000 a month in earnings (but YOU can do it — I swear you can, just keep publishing books until it happens).

Books that are perceived to be by indie authors don't sell as well as those perceived to be by traditionally published authors.

«Indie authors don't waste creative energy longing or complaining.

Although provocative, ``... a handful of agents, all of whom spoke to PW on the condition of anonymity, said they're worried that contracts from print - first imprints will increasingly come with clauses indicating that the publisher makes no guarantee on format» (meaning, no guarantee the publisher would produce a print version of a work), what stood out for us was that literary agents are fulfilling this watchdog role for authors... an advantage most indie authors don't enjoy.

Indie authors don't have to wait on a publisher to decide to publish them.

I don't know if traditionally published authors follow their feedback as closely as indie authors do, but I would guess that reviews and ratings mean more to indies always in search of validation and reassurance.

It's not uncommon to see an indie authors do well and make tons of money despite having an unprofessional cover or website, and doing half of everything wrong (they're nearly always writing books in very popular genres and doing things better than their competition... and it's worth pointing out these books can often make MUCH more money than professionally published / traditionally published books, because they have control over their pricing, promotions and advertising.)

Um, indie authors don't get advances, but they write their books anyway.

That seems to be something Indie Authors do really well.

Many indie authors do not do their homeword and publish unedited rough drafts.

She felt that almost all indie authors do a much better job of branding themselves.

At this stage, I guess when this occurs is because indie authors do not trust paid book reviews, maybe they hope to sell many books from it and consider a paid review useless for this purpose.

Building a readership or audience is important for any author — but indie authors don't have publishers to help them shoulder some of the promotional challenges.

The majority of indie authors do not have a budget for developmental editing, and in my opinion shouldn't.

What's not said here is indie authors don't have to leave their novel in a drawer, even if it's been edited by the best editor in the world.

I always find it interesting when people bring up that lots of indie authors don't make much money.

Indie authors do not need to make an initial investment, besides the time to properly communicate with your translator team.

But indie authors don't get a free pass, if you want to sell more books you need to take a hard look at your book cover, and determine whether it's supporting your book marketing in all the right ways.

Fortunately, most indie authors don't make such outrageous mistakes.

Indie authors don't have the luxury of a cover design team or much money to invest in professional help, yet covers can be very important for the success of a book.

And yes, indie authors do need organizations to help them.

The fact is that many indie authors don't just own a potentially valuable book, they own the rights to their work and these can be licensed to produce the same book, in English, into different territories around the world — whether US, Australia or India.

Since indie authors don't have budgets that allow them to do a lot of paid ads, they have to use whatever tools are available to them on the cheap.

Mainstream - published authors do their own writing, just as indie authors do, but that's where the similarities end.

Although the Mandarin or Arabic languages would reach a lot of people, indie authors don't have platforms to reach that segment yet.

I think some indie authors don't have a clue when it comes to the legal matters pertaining to self - publishing.

Should indie authors do everything they can to make their book error free?

However what most indie authors don't know is that they can borrow somebody else's network.

Yet what a lot of indie authors don't understand is that we need to know the industry before we publish.

As such, the issue is much bigger than just what indie authors do or don't do.

Author HP Mallory, the bestselling writer who has penned such titles as Fire Burn & Cauldron Bubble and Toil and Trouble, as well as her Dulcie O'Neil series, had one thing going for her career that a lot of indie authors don't have, namely, experience in online promotion.

Many indie authors do not have a dedicated editor and their books are full of grammar errors and other facets that throw off a reader.

This week, indie author Hugh Howey released some data on how well indie authors do financially, as compared to authors who publish with large publishers (the «Big 5»).

Indie authors do have to work within a budget, and since most freelancers require payment upfront, this can put many authors in a bind who don't have a few grand or millions to throw around.

This is what the vast majority of indie authors do.

Most indie authors don't bother with ISBN numbers for ebooks because they aren't necessary.

Let us hope the true Indie authors do not get a bad rap because of one person who obviously was looking to make a buck at the expense of readers and the authors he / she stole from.

What savvy indie authors do, is market their books in the climate available.

While progress has certainly been made — namely in the fact that more and more readers don't care how the book came about so long as it's a great read — there are still a few holdouts where indie authors don't garner... [Read more...]

Plus many indie authors don't care about standard tracking mechanisms.