Tag: indie author
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The Exhaustion of Self-Promotion
Boy, do I need a publicist! An independently wealthy publicist who can spend hours on end promoting my writing just because they have nothing else to do and they are head-over-heels in love with my prose. So if you know anyone … As an indie author who has a job and who coaches softball and…
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Win a 10-Page Read by a Literary Agent! Yeah, Right.
I received an email from a website advertising their latest book contest that they wanted me, as an indie author, to enter. I have nothing against book contests. I’ve entered some, but it was the grand prize of this contest that made my stomach curl a little. The grand prize was this: two literary agents…
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About that Facebook Author’s Page
Honestly, thinking about making a Facebook Author’s Page for author Mark W Sasse makes me extremely uncomfortable. Self-promotion is one of the jobs I like least about being an indie author, but I have to keep telling myself: there is no one else to promote me! And so I keep coming back to the ‘should I’…
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Indie Author: Jack of All Trades, Master of One
I shall not tell a lie: being an indie author is a lot of work. There are so many different hats one has to wear. Hopefully, the one I am best at is the writing part. Indie authors must master the writing. Without that, nothing else matters. However, as we all know, the job doesn’t…
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Workshop Aftermath: Wow, the Ground has Shifted!
I had a great time this evening highlighting the changes in the publishing industry over the last decade or so with a great, responsive group of eager writers trying to best understand the landscape through the eyes of this indie author who is still finding his way. I greatly enjoyed seeing the shock on the…
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I’m not a genre writer
Genres are popular. I get it. Genres categorize novels so readers can browse through the books they are more likely to be interested in. (Yes, that’s a preposition at the end of a sentence. It’s late, and I don’t feel like re-writing it. Plus, that’s what blogs are for.) Back to genres. Many authors are…
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Indie Authors: Price Point or Exposure
In my continuing effort to market my novel, navigating the swift-moving, stubborn avenues of promotion which are available to indie authors these days, I tried an experiment in price point to see what would happen. My novel Beauty Rising is finishing up a three-week sale at .99 for the Kindle Version. Here are a few…
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The Benefits of Using Goodreads Giveaways
As an indie author, any and all promotion is good promotion, and each farthings-worth of promotion has to be painstakingly fought for because of the fierce competition. I’ve used a variety of promotion techniques with my first novel Beauty Rising, and I’ll continue to do so. But at this point, one of the most…
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Writers, we control so little
I had to laugh. I got my first one-star review the other day. It’s not really funny, though it kind of is. I’ll explain in a minute. I’ve been writing for a number of years, but I have only recently – how shall I put it? – ‘gotten into the game.’ What game? The game…
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3200 Words on Novel 3
Chinese New Year has provided me with some down time to do some writing, which I haven’t had much of lately. I read an article a while back which said that indie authors need to spend about 80% of their time promoting and only 20% of their time writing. Well, over the last two months…
Author Mark W Sasse 