This is the first in a series of blogs that will answer that very question. Right here you will hear the facts and figures from the authors themselves.
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Pennies add up to $$$. It’s Leap Year! Save all of your loose change in a jar in your kitchen for great good luck all year and beyond. Plus you won’t be broke on January 1, 2017.
If there is any single thing I have learned about indie authors over the past three years it is this: There ain’t no way to shut a complainer up beyond cutting out his or her tongue. A few of the longest running complaints:
“I can’t afford an editor. ”
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Welcome to the Cyber
Porch where eNovel authors gather to chat.
Big Red. Patience Prevails
Welcome to the Cyber
Porch where eNovel authors gather to chat.
New Release Promoted w/o reviews
In spite of what you hear and read on author blogs, Linkedin, on Facebook pages, author forums, and chat rooms, you darn sure can promote your book without a review. How such toxic information managed to find such a poisonous and penetrating life in our indie author universe is beyond me. I am weary of listening to it and I’d like to put it to bed. Here is the single complaint that plagues me the most:
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A Gourmet Demise ~ Murder in South Tampa
Enthralling is the single word that best expresses this new mystery author’s talent. IMO A Gourmet Demise is equal to or better than Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. Christie’s most popular book is a classic. I love the Orient Express. It is my all time favorite mystery. Now, to my delight I have discovered a contemporary mystery writer who has produced a book with all of the class and cachet of Murder on the Orient Express. L. A. Lewandowski is an indie author. She owns a dinner club in Tampa, Florida and she has her finger on the pulse that fabulous city. Moreover, the woman can write. Oh, my goodness.
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Superstitious Author,
Jackie Weger
I am superstitious. I can’t help it. I don’t know where it comes from. I don’t sit on a bed after it is made to perfection and I have heart failure if any visitor to my home does. Pull the covers down first if you need to nap. That’s fine. Okay. So now I’m a writer. I need good luck along with craft and a few good author pals. I have a keeper who likes to nap. And I have cats for the first time in my life. Cats are no respecters of superstition. I don’t make the bed up any more. There is good luck, bad luck and no luck. Not making up my bed guarantees NO LUCK. I’m good with it. The cats are good with it and my keeper is good with it–or maybe not, but I didn’t ask his opinion.
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Unleashed July 18, 2014 on all indie authors published in KDP Select on Amazon and Amazon readers, too, Kindle Unlimited is a new subscription service. $9.99 a month. Readers can download unlimited titles for $9.99 as opposed to Amazon Prime that allows only a single title borrow per month. Critical to authors–in order to get paid a portion of the global fund $ set aside in KOLL, a reader must read at least 10% of the book. Subscribers to Amazon Prime need only to ‘borrow’ the title for the author to get a royalty. No reading required. Indie authors across the internet and in blogs and forums are looking askance at Kindle Unlimited and wondering what the heck it means. Asking how they’ll get paid for the download–if ever.
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There is an empyreal quality in life called happenstance. Some call it kismet. Nietzsche called it amor fati. I’m from the South. If something awful happens and we can’t do anything about it, we just say, ‘that’s the way the mop flops.’ If something good happens, we say, ‘Praise the Lord’ or ‘Hallelujah!’
When widowed junkyard owner G. G. Morgan scoops up the pitted and rusted bumper of an old truck, he didn’t know his life was about to change; that a skinny, conniving girl would abhor his junk but covet his land, his house, and his heart. But G. G. Morgan is about the find these things out–the hard way–because Phoebe Hawley is on a quest to find her family a home. She squats in his kitchen like an old-time land grabber and refuses to budge until her family is sheltered under his roof, fed from his table, and clothed in his love.
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