Sentences with phrase «indie authors time»

I've heard indie authors time and time again report that their overall sales start to pick up around book three or four.

Not exact matches

As a long - time publicist (and both an indie and traditionally pubbed author), I respectfully disagree.

Only time will tell — but from this indie author and huge advocate for indie publishing, I think that any change to get my book on an actual shelf is a win.

When deciding which bestseller category to target it's important to pick a category with enough readers to be worth your time, and that's fairly easy to break into for an indie author.

So I've spent five years of my time educating, for free, and building resources to get over the biggest hurdles (like book design) so indie authors have a fighting chance.

One of the joys of being an indie author is I can change covers when I think it's time.

One of her workshops was with a panel of two other New York Times bestselling authors, each discussing how they found «Indie Success with No Publishing History.»

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While she does not shy away from calling out the bias against indie authors, she also asserts that it's never been a more exciting time to be in book publishing — and her passion and enthusiasm are contagious.

Few indie - published books from first - time authors have enjoyed the immediate success that accompanied the publication of Dina Colman's Four Quadrant Living: Healthy Living Your New Way of Life.

But for most of the indie authors and small publishers I work with, money is at a greater premium than time.

This is unfortunate because indie authors already have a tough time figuring out what makes a «Good Cover» — and if book cover contests like this give prizes to fairly ordinary or even pretty ugly book covers, the bar will not be raised.

In the meanwhile, I've been kicking around the idea of how to freelance with a handful of authors in a partnership similar to this... I've worked with several indie authors to create virtual marketing strategies and to teach them about branding themselves and what I've discovered is that often authors whose work I believe in the most generally don't have the time or aptitude for marketing themselves effectively.

They were done trying to help indie authors, and they chose the worst time of the year to pull the rug out from under us.

I've tossed clunkers from both, but spend most of my time reading Indie Authors now.

There are Indie authors who could buy his house ten times and throw a party every night but he laughs at them.

I've gone back through a lot of comments, though by no means all of them, and a couple of times I've seen him say that indie authors should be culled and used as bio fuel.

Indie publishing is here to stay, and it's about time that authors — the creators of the media this industry revolves around — were recognised as a valuable part of LBF.»

I think it's great these professional organizations are allowing indie authors into their groups, though I suspect over time they too will come to recognize how commercial results alone are an inadequate measure of professionalism because ultimately they'll shut out professional authors — wonderful writers — who write about unpopular or arcane topics.

This time, nearly thirty indie authors signed the letter thanking Amazon for its service to the reading public and to authors in particular.

Chances are, yes, a reader will get a poorly written or unedited book from time to time when trying Indie Authors, but it's also likely in a traditionally published ebook.

The vast majority of indie authors don't contribute anything good to the literary world and often incur the ire of many of the greatest writers of our time.

Foster, whose thirty - plus indie books have sold over one million copies and have landed on both the New York Times and USA Today bestsellers» lists, is also the founder of two sites for indie authors, World Literary Cafe and Fostering Success.

Jonathan's road from his first published short story in 1978 to being a full - time indie author of more than thirty novels of (mostly) military science fiction.

Taking the advice in this book will save authors and indie publishers a great deal of time, trouble and money.

An indie author does not take the time to learn how to maximize royalties, compare service options, or do the research necessary to ensure the book has the best chances out there in a ferocious marketplace.

It's also the most productive time for indie authors, because their book marketing efforts can translate into book sales.

And as more and more indie authors are picked up by big houses based, not on queries and submissions and the traditional system, but on established sales records, it could be a viable alternative to a frustrating and, at times, broken system.

And with more and more indie authors making audiobooks, chances are better all the time that your favorite books come on audio.

--(Briefly) started a book recommendation site with a fellow author — Launched a movie review blog with a friend (still going)-- Launched a t - shirt company with a couple other friends (sucked a bunch of time and never amount to much of anything)-- Found a publicity company for indie authors called Book Review 22 (the second best venture)

Force, a New York Times and USA Today contemporary romance author who has written more than 50 books, was at the forefront of the indie publishing wave in 2010 when she self - published books that had been rejected by traditional publishers.

Self - published authors are expanding into conferences throughout the world, with some indie - centric events hitting the big time like Author Marketing Live, PubSense Summit, and IndieRecon.

Many publishers require no - compete clauses that prevent an author from working with another publisher (or from indie - publishing) during a certain window of time.

When it first came out, I emailed and asked if Indie author's books can be included and they said they had no plans to include them at this time.

Most indie authors we've known over the years spent a lot of time (and money) with professional copy editors, developmental editors, and writing coaches.

Indie authors can stay competitive with their pricing, offer limited time discounts around holidays, there are a lot of creative book marketing options that revolve around pricing.

Since the explosion of interest in Indie authors, there's been a parallel explosion of people / businesses / websites / blogs clamouring for your time, attention and sometimes your money.

We have two nifty offers for savvy authors today, one absolutely free (and just in time for NaNoWriMo, and the other, an Indie Author Power Pack with over 1,000 useful pages for just 99 cents...

The lineup consists of quality indie authors along with some New York Times bestsellers, and includes:

This will be my step - by - step process showing how I (hopefully) went from an indie author selling a handful of books per month to a bonafide bestseller with a foundation to begin making the transition from an everyday to full - time author.

Give this Indie debut a try as it's one of those that promises a talented author to watch for and who hopefully will continue to enthrall his readers for a long, long time.»

Self - pub / indie authors like us... we shouldn't waste our time trying to convince publishers to change.

Specific, in - depth nuts - and - bolts guides include The Unofficial Scrivener Workbook by M.J. Carlson, Excel for Writers by M. L. Humphrey (walks through how to create spreadsheets that track time spent writing, page production, year - to - year metrics, and keep track of your works), Excel for Self - Publishers by M. L. Humphrey (amazingly useful for indie authors, how to track ads and effectiveness, revenue by sales channel, keywords, amazon reports, and more), and The Author's Guide to Vellum by Chuck Heintzelman (an incredible new app for producing print and eBooks; I'm a total convert myself).

When it's time to monetize books, indie authors need to grow their readership.

Many times, indie authors submit their books for review by filling out the submission form and accepting to pay for review.

Never has there been a better time for indie e-book authors.

Like in KOLL, indie authors in KU are paid each time a customer accesses one of their titles (a customer must access a certain percentage of the given title in order for payment to be issued).

She's a former accountant turned full - time psychology suspense author who took the plunge into Indie Publishing after an impending milestone birthday galvanized her into action.

All of us probably have a list of things that we're falling behind on at all times, which is part of why we never feel like we're truly «off duty» as indie authors.

Indie authors and artists are far too often selfish with their time — because they are always hustling and trying to get noticed.