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Authors: do you have a professional approach?






If you are an indie author, you will do everything alone. Writing a book is an easier part. You will do promotion, editing, marketing, choosing cover creators, and your editor for a final manuscript.

Indie authors are aware of this so they do the best they can to look professional. 

There are some exceptions, those are people who are just starting or they are naturally egoistic so they think everyone will listen to their demands.



What kind of mistakes do indie authors do in approaching their audience?

Send private messages to unknown people. 

Tag unknown people with their book links.

They post above-pinned tweets of other authors their book links.

They post under other authors' links their book links.

Underestimate other authors, trying to make laugh at their work.


Selling a book means you need to find a market. If you are lecturing others, you will not be popular. If you try to use others, it will come back to you.

Here are three tricks that some indie authors use:

Fake promise. I will review your book, but first, you must review mine.

The author reviewed your book, but it looks like he did not read it. "Excellent work. " This is it.

The author writes the same review for you and other authors, like the automatic review.


Selling a book means an interaction. If you talk in a way: "Hey, you should purchase my book. You should review it. " you will not have success.

Talking about a professional approach means you need to have a product that looks professional.

Three elements:

A professional cover. Generic cover from Kindle Creator will not be noticed.

An edited book. If you have many grammar errors, you will get lower ratings.

A book formatting. Your chapters must look readable, to understand the story.


I must add here how much I appreciate comments under my posts because I collect the experiences of other authors. I will approve every comment that is connected with the topic, but I erase comments that send links on other blogs or promote something out of topic. 



Comments

Eva Pasco said…
Writing to be read is basically a solo journey. However, one needs the support of fellow authors. Respect goes a long way.
John Willett said…
Excellent advice, especially for someone relatively new to Twitter like myself! Thanks for the info…

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