Question of the Week: If you could choose literary fame as a pauper or financial success without acclaim as an indie, which would you choose and why? How would your answer have differed when you just started out as an author?
After plugging the upcoming Indie Author Day (on October 8th, 2016), Jim and Bryan chatted with Ashley Durrer from InstaFreebie for their latest lab segment. Following their big thanks to two patrons, Craig Lea Gordon (and his book Hypercage ( https://amzn.com/B01KPGFQXY ) and Megan Haskell (and her book Sanyere: The Heir Apparent http://bit.ly/sanyare2 ), the publishing pilgrims took on tips related to relaunching your books, Shelfie’s new reader tool, and a “caring” social media strategy. News stories included Google Play’s new recommendation algorithm, Amazon’s big news about Audible, the end of the authors vs. Harlequin lawsuit, one author’s tough road, and another author’s joke-turned-success story. This week’s Question of the Week: If you could choose literary fame as a pauper or financial success without acclaim as an indie, which would you choose and why? How would your answer have differed when you just started out as an author?
What You’ll Learn:
- How authors can renew interest in their series with a relaunch
- How new features on Shelfie can help readers find new books
- How authors can increase social media engagement with C.A.R.E
- How Google Play Book’s new app stacks up against Amazon Kindle’s
- What new free features Amazon is offering Prime members
- How one group of authors settled a lawsuit against Harlequin
- How one author went from writing a critically-acclaimed novel to delivering mail
- How switching to genre fiction got one author shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize
Links:
- Sanyare: The Heir Apparent by Megan Haskell
- Hypercage by Craig Lea Gordon
- InstaFreebie
- Indie Author Day
- Relaunch Sequence
- Top-Shelfie (1)
- Top-Shelfie (2)
- Sharing is C.A.R.E-ing
- Write Out of the Play Book (1)
- Write Out of the Play Book (2)
- Prime by Cha-nnel (1)
- Prime by Cha-nnel (2)
- Prime by Cha-nnel (3)
- Labor of Love
- I’ll Gladly Pay You Tuesday for a Book Today (1)
- I’ll Gladly Pay You Tuesday for a Book Today (2)
- Be Like The Cool Kids
Question of the Week: If you could choose literary fame as a pauper or financial success without acclaim as an indie, which would you choose and why? How would your answer have differed when you just started out as an author?