Well, by golly, the Gurus have Spoken… Telling you up front I like The Digital Reader. But a recent blog 8 Ways For Authors to Waste Their Their Money leads with the advice that an author should not start marketing until that author has published three books. Not all of this advice is from the […]
Are You Marketing Your First Book? If Not~Why Not?
Blogging ~ A Call to Action? Or Not…
Blogging Off-Topic Since I first stepped into indie authorship, advice has poured into my mailbox that I must blog. And recently suggestions are piling up telling me to blog about anything other than my books. Blog about cooking or recipes or crystals or knitting… And once foodies, new age aficionados or knitters are following my […]
Read the rest of this entry »Five eBOOK BASICS–Are you Getting it Right? Or Forgetting it Wrong?
Five Basic Steps to Best Book Presentation There are thousands of promoters and indie author insiders calling themselves Experts and every single one has some offer in hand that will teach you how to sell your book–or if you fork over $$$–they will sell your book for you and pretty soon you will be a bestselling […]
Read the rest of this entry »Review Plague ~ A Disease more Viral than Ebola
“If I’m ever short of money, at least I know I can write this badly and still sell books to make extra cash. ” [11 readers agreed]. Those few word transmit the review plague. Every indie author is at risk of becoming infected and only the wisest avoid becoming a susceptible host. Not a day goes by that […]
Read the rest of this entry »90% of Indie Authors Don’t Act
In March I wrote a blog Your Amazon Author Page~Is it Working for You? That blog generated the least amount of traffic on this site. I was stunned at the lack of interest. Yet, creating an effective Amazon Author page is the single most critical and basic step to an indie author’s success. When I first stepped into […]
Read the rest of this entry »Read & Review Program to Rival NetGalley
A Read and Review program for indie authors that rivals NetGalley. How did that happen? Is it true? Yes it is true and eNovel Authors at Work has the privilege to announce it. You want the skinny up front. Here it is: Jay Lee, the founder of Choosy Bookworm rolled out the program in an email […]
Read the rest of this entry »Amazon TOP 1000 Reviewer Dilemma
Here is what is new in the life of a freelance book reviewer. A few months past, I received a request from a self-published author seeking a review for two of her books. I read the first book, wrote a review and posted the review on Goodreads and Amazon US. I alerted the author […]
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