A group where you can share you tips and woes on self-publishing with Amazon or Smashwords. There are other platforms, but I haven’t tried those yet, but if anyone has had a good experience, I would love to hear from them.
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Self-Published Authors 5 years, 3 months agoWatch out for Amazon prices. Amazon have yet again advertised a book of mine with an astronomical price.
They always mess up
Then they put the book as unavailable because I tell them.
Next book I am not going to use Amazon at all. Nobody is going to want to take out a mortgage on a house to buy my books!
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I know what you mean, I have been reading up on how to get around certain barriers like using Smashwords and offering it free, but still able to list it on Amazon with a price.
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I know what you mean, but imagine if you could only sell 1 or 2, LOL. You’d have it made.
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Jackalyn posted an update in the group
Self-Published Authors 5 years, 3 months agoHello all,
I have self-published several books. I began using Lulu.com. I know others have not had a great experience, but usually the quality of print books has been fine.
The cover for a book I published on CreateSpace was disappointing.
Most of my work is Christian.
However, I took a number of old Bubblews posts and rewrote them into a…[Read more]
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Poetry is a hard genre. I have some poems and I’ve read the best way is to enter competitions to get them printed and thus build up your name first before trying to sell it in any medium.
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Self-Published Authors 5 years, 3 months agoMy fifth book went live as a paperback on CreateSpace today and should be available on Amazon in a few days. I’ll begin my promotional push on FB, Twitter, and other sites (but not here, have no fear).
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Are we allowed to post links to our books here on Blogjob?
I will have a search for your book.
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I am not sure about posting a link to the book, but the title is Sea, Sand, and Sabine.
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Excellent, do tell us the title. Do you bother with the Goodreads giveaways or Amazon ones? They can be a good way to promote, although Amazon I think you have to pay.
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The title of the book is Sea, Sand, and Sabine. I recently ran an Amazon giveaway for my first book just to see how it would go. It didn’t do as well as I’d hoped, but it went well. I may have one for SS&S very soon.
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Found you on Smashwords. I added you as a favorite author. I use another pen name which I won’t use here, but you may find me. I also followed you in HubPages. Thanks for the FB lke on my blog FB page.
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Self-Published Authors 5 years, 3 months agoHas anyone found Goodreads useful? I have a page there, but I end up spending so much time navigating, I could have written several chapters there.
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I have a presence on Goodreads but have not found it of particular use so spend little time there anymore.
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DW Davis replied to the topic Have you self-published yet, or are you planning to soon? in the forum
Self-Published Authors 5 years, 3 months agoI can understand why you would want to keep control of the publishing of memoirs. My books are all young adult, coming-of-age, stories.
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Beauty Spy replied to the topic Have you self-published yet, or are you planning to soon? in the forum
Self-Published Authors 5 years, 3 months agoI have self-published two books on Smashwords and Amazon as it was easier and free. I will look at traditional publishing for my other books, but it depends on finding the right publishers, and as the books I published were memoirs, they are sometimes better self-published because it’s so personal.
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Self-Published Authors 5 years, 3 months agoKindle desktop publishing allows free self publishing.
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Yes, it does and I use it, but people do need to be aware that they can’t advertise it elsewhere for less if they use KDP, for example on Smashwords.
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