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.
You might interview other
indie authors in your genre; some will return the favor.
Take a look at how the top
indie authors in your genre use free.
In 10 days you'll get more traffic than the majority of other
indie authors in your genre.
Even if I'm not making a profit from the transaction, helping other
indie authors in my genre is good business for me, because I'm doing them a big favor, and they may repay it by blurbing my books or sharing me with their audiences.
I'd find easier ways, like trading author interviews with 50
indie authors in your genre (ask to interview them, put the content on your site linking to theirs, then do the same thing with them).
But even the best designer can't guarantee you're targeting your genre — study the covers of the bestselling
indie authors in your genre (not tradpub).
I know this post is long past by now... but I felt I needed to come back after recent experiences reading / talking to other
indie authors in my genre and let you know that I now, unfortunately, see what you're saying.
It would be much more effective for you to get in touch with 25 other
indie authors in your genre and build a community list.
It makes more sense to trade book reviews with other
indie authors in your genre.
Not exact matches
Steampunk (and Harlequin and Amish romance)
author Shelley Adina joins us today to talk about managing multiple pen names and
genres, keeping a long - running series fresh (and selling), paying for foreign translations of
indie books, and working the cons to get
in touch with more readers (and take trips you can write off on your taxes!).
If you're an
indie author who's competing
in your
genre, on your own, with best - selling
authors who have the resources of big publishing houses behind them.
It's a good option for
indie authors who write
in genres that tend to be really popular for KU.
The
author, or
indie publisher, does the research into the book market and the
genre in which the book will compete, setting the book up to compete successfully
in the marketplace.
I'm an
Indie Author writing
in the romance
genre.
«Because most people can read more than one book a year, you're not
in competition with other
authors so you need to start partnering with other
authors, especially other
indie authors that are
in your
genre.
Most successful
authors, tradpub or
indie, start
in one
genre and build that to success before branching out.
Do you know who the top selling
indie authors are
in your
genre?
A bold, new phenomenon has taken place
in publishing, arguably started by the
indie authors who maintained strict control over their works and were free to publish as they chose, but also taken up by the romance
genre within the traditional industry due to an abundance of readers who clamor for new content.
Verdict: 4 Stars A bold, new phenomenon has taken place
in publishing, arguably started by the
indie authors who maintained strict control over their works and were free to publish as they chose, but also taken up by the romance
genre within the traditional industry due to an abundance of readers who clamor for new... [Read more...]
Blurb, who began as a limited print company who specialized
in niche books like professional portfolios before expanding into
genres like
indie cookbooks and art books, announced today that it has a host of new features for
authors, including free ISBN numbers, direct to Amazon distribution for print, and a new tool called BookWright that lets
authors upload without having to have the expertise to submit files through Adobe's InDesign.
TIM STEVENS: I'm taking a leaf out of the book of Russell Blake, the New York Times bestselling
indie author who writes
in a similar
genre to me.
Because self - published
authors keep 70 % of their total purchase price on Amazon compared to the 25 % that most traditionally published
authors get from their publishers,
indie authors are earning almost half the daily
author revenue
in the Mystery / Thriller, Science Fiction / Fantasy, and Romance
genres.
Established
indie authors (mainly romance) hit the USA Today and even the NY Times with new releases all the time, but
in the thriller
genre, it is mainly traditionally published
authors who do that.
By uniting 7 critically acclaimed works of
indie contemporary fiction, their
authors hope to demonstrate that
author publishing is a valid quality route even
in a
genre that is still perceived by many as a traditional publishing chasse guardée, according to Jane Davis:
I polled other
authors in an
indie Facebook group about what
genre they thought the book was, based on this cover, and overwhelmingly they said «time travel».
As a group,
indie authors sell more books
in the bestselling
genres on Amazon than the Big 5 publishers combined.
If it takes years to write one literary novel, then how is an
author in this
genre to make an impact, especially as an
indie?
I am 4 - LAN and do book reviews for
indie authors on this site that write
in the
genres of Fantasy, Horror and Science Fiction.
Some
indie authors use «keywords» (for search engine optimisation (SEO)-RRB- on their websites, blogs and social media pages so their books will pop up first
in the particular searched for
genre.
Indie titles
in these highly popular
genres are outselling centuries» - old publishing houses, but now that means that an
author whose work can not be readily categorized into one of these popular cubbyholes has even more work cut out for him than before
in terms of promotion and visibility.
I learned from my fellow
indie authors in the same
genre about what works and what doesn't.
Certainly, there are more
indie than Big Five
authors earning above minimum wage
in this daily snapshot (486 vs. 302), but to know the probability of hitting the right place on the list, we would need to know the distribution of publisher types across all of the ebooks
in the selected
genres.
These
indie authors write
in your
genre, are at a similar level, not yet at bestselling status, but hungry.
Authors have long been classified by
genre, but
in the current era of
indie publishing, those lines are blurring.
I'm glad that you mentioned the 70 score is for an «
indie author writing fiction reasonably fast
in a popular
genre».
Here is a small list of trends
in the four main
genres, I only listed successful
indie authors.
This is why
indie authors should study the books
in their
genre and see how they're packaged.
All Acting Vs. Writing Advertising Apps For Writers Art
Author Collectives Banning Books Blogging Blog Tours Book Cover Design Book Marketing Booksellers Branding Character Development Character - Driven Fiction Christian Erotica Clichés
In Writing Co-Authoring Construction Coping With Anxiety Coping With Rejection Letters Copyright Copyright Infringement Copywriting Creating A Business Plan Dealing With Fear Defining Success Depression Developing Setting Drug & / or Alcohol Abuse Editing Vs. Writing Editors Education Entrepreneurial Skills Ethical Issues
In Fiction Evoking Emotion Expat Writers Fame Fantasy Finding Inspiration Finding Your Voice Follow Your Dreams For Aspiring Writers For
Indie Authors Gender Issues
Genre Getting Published Ghostwriting Grief Handling Critique Historical Fiction Horror Stories
In Publishing Interdisciplinary Art Karma Lit Killing Off Characters Learning From Mistakes LGBT LGBT Literature Literary Adaptations Literary Journals Lyrics Mailing Lists Marketing Memoir Metaphysical Lit Multicultural Fiction Music Music Vs. Writing Nonfiction Nonfiction To Fiction Nurturing Creativity Packaging Advice Perfectionism Photography Playwriting Plotting Poetry Political Art Pornography Protagonist Development Public Speaking Publishing Religion Research Romance Novels Self - doubt Selfpublishing Setting Goals Social Effects Of Fiction Social Media Social Networking Spiritual Lit Staying Motivated Stereotypes Success Taking Care Of Yourself Taking Risks Target Audience Thrillers Time Management Time Travel Traditional Publishing Trilogy Trust Your Instincts Truth
In Fiction Twitter For Writers Typesetting Websites Work / Life Balance Writer Quirks Writer's Block Writers» Conference Writer's Life Writing Advice Writing A Series Writing As Therapy Writing Book Reviews Writing Craft Writing Dialects Writing Erotica Writing For A Living Writing For Children Writing (General) Writing Groups Writing
In A Foreign Language Writing Playlists Writing Sequels Writing Vs. Medicine Writing Workshops Writing Yourself Into Your Characters Youth Arts Youth Education
This might give you a good idea of how much readers
in that
genre expect to pay for a new
Indie author's book.
Indie authors are way ahead of the traditionally published books
in sci - fi / fantasy, mystery / thriller, and romance
genres.
An award - winning, Los Angeles audiobook narrator, Jeffrey Kafer has performed over 400 titles
in all
genres from
indie authors to bestsellers.
How else do you explain the fact there are so many
indie authors writing science fiction, fantasy and certain sub-
genres of romance who are making livings from writing
in genres all but abandoned by traditional publishing over the years?
Indie authors sometimes team up with others
in the same
genre to produce book bundles for promotion rather than profit.
You can also pay a service like BookBub to promote your discounted eBook to their email list — a strategy that many
indie authors swear by if you have a book
in the right
genre.
If you don't already have a short list of other
indie authors who write
in your
genre, you should.
Comprehensive resources like
Author Earnings» quarterly analyses, the only full picture of traditionally published and
indie book sales, can give you important insights into what price points for print and e-editions are successful
in your
genre.
As an
indie author with books ranked
in the top 100 of my
genre — I am frustrated by the «paper ceiling» created by traditionally published
authors.
Thousands of
indie authors are earning good money publishing
in a wide variety of
genres, including Mysteries, Thrillers, and Suspense, to name just a few.
Even the big guns, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, have paid options for
indie authors as there are so many... No easy answer, obviously, and we usually suggest
authors BEGIN with the free reviewers (we identify who's who
in the Winner Circle, and vet reviewers by traffic, free vs. paid, which
genres, etc..)