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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.

But as an indie author it's also really important to keep up those personal connections with your fans and fans of your genre, by finding unique ways to keep your name and brand out there.

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.

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.

These reader - pleasing lists will represent many of the world's bestselling indie authors across multiple genres and categories.

Some authors who had been successful with traditionally published books, but who wanted to branch out into a different genre, went «hybrid» — still doing some books with their traditional publishers but also doing some «indie» publishing of their own.

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.

I've provided editing services to traditionally published professional writers and indie authors since 1998, for a total of nearly 500 books across the genres.

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.

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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 am 4 - LAN and do book reviews for indie authors on this site that write in the genres of Fantasy, Horror and Science Fiction.

Hi, I'm Eva Pasco, an Indie author whose novels fit the genre of Contemporary Women's Fiction.

In 10 days you'll get more traffic than the majority of other indie authors in your genre.

I'll be building resources to help indie authors publish and market their books, such as a «21 Day Bestselling Author Platform» course, and genre - specific book marketing guides (I've already added a few of them to www.marketingforwriters.com; I'll announce those more formally once I've got more genres completed.)

Of these ebooks, most independently published ones have a larger market share than traditionally published ones when broken down into genres: Self - published romance, mystery, horror, science fiction and fantasy all sell better from indie authors or Kindle imprints than they do from traditional publishers.»

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.

The main problem with this genre is that they are primarily distributed by major publishers and indie authors have not properly taken advantage of this lucrative segment.

On the other hand, maybe there just hasn't been this sort of goldrush of indie author output towards other genres / readerships and they remain untapped.

Our community at Two Drops of Ink still has room for the published or indie author, aspiring writer, poet, journalist, wordsmith, or writers of multiple genres looking for another platform to expose readers to their writing.

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.

Erotica and Romance are two literary genres that are dominated by female indie authors and 59 % of all titles on the market are written by them.

Paranormal romance is a popular genre with an active fanbase; they are keen to support indie authors and generally less critical of the writing quality, as long as the story is satisfying.

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).

«The entire ForeWord team has been at work since last summer creating a redesigned website with an easy to navigate homepage, loaded with thousands of reviews of the latest books from indie publishing along with genre - related features, author interviews and with plans to integrate more live information like blogs and weekly Don't Miss Lists,» said Victoria Sutherland, ForeWord's publisher.

Authors have long been classified by genre, but in the current era of indie publishing, those lines are blurring.

All sorts of genres from hundreds of Indie authors.

Here is a small list of trends in the four main genres, I only listed successful indie authors.

As long as a small group of Fans think they are better than the fans who put money into the pockets of authors and artists, as long as they refuse to admit indie published works can be as good — or better — than traditionally published works, and as long as they refuse to admit that the Hugos were meant to be a fan award, they will continue to disenfranchise most fans of the genre.

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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.

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?

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.

Connect with women writers of all genres and experience levels, from indie scribes to traditionally published and self - published authors.

Communicating an author's brand is especially challenging when you're an indie author not bound by the constraints of traditional publishing to stick to a specific genre.

Genres come in and out of popularity, more efficient ePublishing formats develop, and indie authors grow in -LSB-...]

Genres come in and out of popularity, more efficient ePublishing formats develop, and indie authors grow in numbers.

But what indie writers would be interested in — at least this one — is professional help with gaining exposure in those areas that can actually do indie writers some good: identifying key book - review bloggers by genre, sorting through the maze of sites that offer paid advertising, and knowing which ones are the best bet for a particular author's work, helping with ad language, etc..

It's not in a genre I read, but I'll add to that list of good books by Indie Authors — KEPT — a novella by Zoe Winters.

As a technical writer and indie author, I get all kinds of questions about writing and publishing in various genres.

From my short time in the Indie world as I prepare to release my book, there seems to be a deep sense of comradary, whereas the feeling I had while under a traditional publisher was competition with authors of the same genre, fighting for the attention of the publisher.

Although these successful indie authors write in a number of genres and categories, have different levels of experience, they all have one thing in common: they wrote and self - published because they couldn't imagine doing anything else.

(If your cover is perfect, they should already have a very clear idea of the genre, but most of the time, indie author's covers aren't communicating genre well enough — and EVEN if your cover is perfect, you still need to repeat the keywords and genre indicators because search engines can't read cover text.