Sentences with phrase «indie authors talk»

A lot of indie authors I talk to struggle with the concept of book marketing.

It drives me nuts to hear indie authors talk about their 70 % «royalty» from Amazon.

It sounds ridiculously naive to me when indie authors talk about book marketing or promotion.

What a great idea — the sample of the book looks like indie authors talking to indie authors.

it's funny, because every time I read indie authors talking about self pubbing, it sounds exciting and I start thinking — why not?

Not exact matches

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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!).

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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.

Based on a pick - and - choose menu of services that includes more than just editing — which right away is a departure from the standard, as too many «author services» companies require all or none expensive packages — the platform is delving into things like review services that will send out copies of an author's book to their channels, along with talks of translation (an ungodly expense for indie authors that can easily cost upwards of tens of thousands of dollars per language) and audiobook services.

We also talked about SFWA, where Jonathan is the Chairman of the Education Committee and doing a lot to help indie authors inside of the organization.

When it comes to book promotion she knows what she's talking about and indie authors should listen — and act.

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.

To hear the hours kept by many indie authors, you'd think you were talking to a partner in a top law firm.

When the electronic revolution started to hit books and a few authors discovered how really simple it was to indie publish, lots of talk started about how writers could get rich by just indie publishing their first or second book, and a few writers actually did.

In this session, speakers will talk about how technology can enable readers and indie authors to connect, and how indie authors can promote their writing with emerging platforms.

Talk them the HELL up on Facebook or Twitter, especially if they're indie authors, because I guarantee you they'll need every bit of exposure they can get.

If we're talking indie authors, I'll see if the book's been deployed to Smashwords.

I've talked about this with some other black female writers — as indie authors especially — with our suspicions that the majority of romance readers (non-black) will not pick up a book with a black woman on the cover, should we do it anyway and take the risk just to see ourselves on the cover?

Start with: Blog Talk Radio shows that feature authors and books, like Indie Books with Will Wilson, The Backporch Writer with Kori Miller, and so many more; Google + LIVE and taped Hangouts on Air, such as my show, CHANGES, which then go to Youtube; D'vorah Lansky's and others» teleseminars and webinars devoted to books, book marketing and authors; The Authors Show, A Book and a Chat and many others on their own «channels»; podcasts and other shows, such as The Author Hangout, with Shawn Manaher and R.J. Adams, via iTunes and other sources, and so manauthors and books, like Indie Books with Will Wilson, The Backporch Writer with Kori Miller, and so many more; Google + LIVE and taped Hangouts on Air, such as my show, CHANGES, which then go to Youtube; D'vorah Lansky's and others» teleseminars and webinars devoted to books, book marketing and authors; The Authors Show, A Book and a Chat and many others on their own «channels»; podcasts and other shows, such as The Author Hangout, with Shawn Manaher and R.J. Adams, via iTunes and other sources, and so manauthors; The Authors Show, A Book and a Chat and many others on their own «channels»; podcasts and other shows, such as The Author Hangout, with Shawn Manaher and R.J. Adams, via iTunes and other sources, and so manAuthors Show, A Book and a Chat and many others on their own «channels»; podcasts and other shows, such as The Author Hangout, with Shawn Manaher and R.J. Adams, via iTunes and other sources, and so many more.

Therefore, indie authors aren't necessarily competing against authors with millions of books in print in thousands of bookstores (you know who we're talking about!)

It's only Day One and I've already heard all about what Indie authors need to know, learned how to run a great author cooperative, and listened to the great Joel Friedlander talk about book design basics.

I had the opportunity to talk recently with Inkspokes, a site for indie authors and their readers — we discussed some of the joys (and pitfalls) of independent publishing.

What I've begun suggesting to folks is to read up on and talk with the indie authors in their own professional writing organizations (such as SFWA, whose voting membership supported self - publishing by an 8 - to - 1 ratio).

The main area of conjecture is that Nielson only talks to big publishing companies and excludes indie authors.

With so much talk in recent news about the poor quality of indie authors» works and data that shows that only about 59 % of self - published authors go so far as to pay a professional editor before hitting that publish button, it's easy to forget that the traditional publishing industry has its fair share of mistakes, too.

With so much talk in recent news about the poor quality of indie authors» works and data that shows that only about 59 % of self - published authors go so far as to pay a professional editor before hitting that publish button, it's easy to forget... [Read more...]

Reach out and e-mail your favorite indie author (we're here and we're hungry to talk about our work... though, not necessarily about what you like for breakfast).

Jim talked about ebooks being rented from libraries and how it's a market indie authors should consider.

As an indie author I spend a lot of time talking to others about the importance of a quality product and how to make sure they deliver one.

She was an indie author, and we were talking about RMFW and how it helped us.

We had a blast talking about the changes technology has delivered to authors, the essential skills indie authors need to develop, the new Universal Book Link from Draft2Digital (which is very cool IMHO), and a variety of other topics.

Just a few weeks ago I was talking about Indie Author Day coming up.

But I want to talk about something totally different, that very few people are doing, that is marketing gold for indie authors starting out.

This is the third in a series of blog posts where I talk about my experiences with self - publishing and learning how to be an indie author.

What I do know, I'm learning from other indie authors who talk about their methods.

According to this attorney roundtable podcast on the Smart Passive Income Podcast (which is well worth a listen, or going to the site and downloading the transcript for free, to because 80 - 90 % of what this show talks about setting up a business structure applies to indie authors), some of these policies are junk.

I love my job and hope to see my author's succeed, so I'm not complaining about them, just a challenging situation — and a situation perhaps that is critical to the success and failure of indie published books that nobody else is talking about.

In Susan Kaye Quinn's Indie Author Survival Guide, she talks about the sharks in this industry.

I talked about this in a previous article called: Booktube for Indie Authors which opened the eyes of a lot of authors who knew nothing about this subculture of book revAuthors which opened the eyes of a lot of authors who knew nothing about this subculture of book revauthors who knew nothing about this subculture of book reviewers.

I want to talk a little about an Amazon service called Kindle Unlimited, because it's complicated and interesting, and is increasingly the primary discussion subject among authors (of the indie variety) and not for a lot of really good reasons.

We talk about this in length in The Indie Author Revolution!

Since I'm talking about reasonable pricing and I'm an indie author, I'm going to take a moment to tout my latest.

Talking about your specific book rather than books and authors in general increases the chances that the person you're chatting with will jump to support indie publishing.

For me (I'm an indie author), I see social media as a way of building a community, a tribe of fans who are interested in what I write, but who are also interested in simply talking about books and reading.

Barbara talks about going from author to CEO of a creative business, as well as branding, writing in a series, connecting with readers and what's coming next in the indie world.

I'm talking about authors writing genre fiction, either with existing fan - bases (from fanfic or their indie books) or just starting from scratch.

As an editor myself, I'm going to take a risk today and talk about some reasons that an indie author just might not need an editor after all.

They talked about the biggest 2014 developments in book publishing — from audio to subscription models to the «bleeding edge» of self - publishing — and what those mean for indie authors.