Indie Author Survival Guide - Second Edition Author:Susan Kaye Quinn **UPDATED SECOND EDITION** (25% more content, every chapter updated) This book takes first-time authors through their first leap into indie publishing and gives already-published authors a jump-start for their lagging sales or new series. Inspirational and nuts-and-bolts practical, the Guide helps you tackle your fears, plan for success, market ... more »without feeling like a slimeball, and create a beautiful book package. It's a guide for the heart as much as the head, designed to help you launch your publishing journey.
Susan Kaye Quinn is the author of the Singularity Series, the Mindjack Trilogy and the Debt Collector serial (as well as other speculative fiction works) and has been indie publishing since 2011. She's not an indie rockstar or a breakout success: she's one of thousands of solidly midlist indie authors making a living with their works. This book is based on her experience in self-publishing fiction--the First Edition was published in 2013, the Second Edition in 2015, updated to account for changes in the industry. It's a guide to help her fellow writer-friends take their own leaps into the wild (and wonderful) world of indie publishing... and not only survive, but thrive.
See also: For Love or Money: Crafting An Indie Author Career (releases 7.14) For Love or Money looks at parlaying that first book into a career.
**Table of Contents** 1 - How to Not Get Eaten By Sharks 2 - For Heaven's Sake, Get a Map and a Compass Writer's Mission Statement Five Year Plan 3 - Taking the Road Less Traveled Ten Things I Believe Fear and the Creative Worker Fear of the Dark How to Be Brave Owning the Writer Title Four (Nasty) Lies We Tell Ourselves About Writing Emotional Judo: Lack of Support for Your Writing Have Faith In Your Work Taking the Road Less Traveled* The Secret Ingredient: Confidence Making the Leap Seven Questions to Ask Before Self-Publishing 4 - My, That's a Beautiful Backpack How to Market Without Feeling Like a Slimeball Creating Covers That Sell Blurbs That Grab You Selling Your Book: Hook, Line, and Sinker Book Discovery in the Digital Age Stories Don't Expire - Don't Rush To Publish Pricing Your Ebook Kindle Unlimited and the New World Order Free in the Digital Era Reviews and How to Get Them Pre-Orders Using SMARTurls Paid Advertising and Giveaways Get Thee A Mailing List Make a Marketing Plan Launching Hard and Launching Soft 5 - What Did You Forget To Pack? Where to Publish Hiring Your Team (Editors, Cover Artists) Formatting: The Easy Way Formatting: The Hard Way Uploading Direct To iTunes How to Make A Book Trailer 6 - Watch Out For Quicksand Social Media Quicksand Yellow-Spotted Sales-Checking Fever Abundance vs. Scarcity Making the Donuts Training Your Intuition Give Yourself A Creative Retreat Four Keys to Finding Time For Your Creative Work 7 - Are We There Yet? Measuring SuccessHierarchy vs. Territory: Mastering Your Writing Domain Why Is My Book Not Selling? Big Levers and Small Levers Four Ways to Think Long Term in Indie Publishing True, Not True: Debunking Some Indie Publishing Myths Exploiting Your Rights Please Say No to Bad Contracts 8 - You Are Free, Act Like It Age of the Empowered Writer Ebooks as Cauldrons of Innovation All About Serials... Author Brand in the Digital Age 9 - What? We're Doing It Again? Debut Author vs. Career Author Appendix A--List of Freelance Service Providers
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