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Awethors Awareness Day

What happens when a group of Awesome Awethors get together on Facebook? Find out on August 15^th and August 16^th. Pure pandemonium? Brilliant repartee?  Exciting exchanges? Surprising revelations?  Meet some of the bravest and boldest contributors to the world of writing. We’ll be talking about and promoting the books of authors other than ourselves. Find out what books we like. Find old favorites and discover new ones.

Today and tomorrow (Aug. 14th & Aug. 15th) “Riddle” is FREE on Kindle. Take this opportunity to read my romantic thriller. It has an overall rating of 4.6 stars. You may ask yourself why I would give my book away. The main reason is that I LIKE the story. I think it’s a good book; an exciting and compelling mystery/thriller. I believe readers will enjoy it. I’m an indie writer. I don’t make a lot of money…

Here’s something the average reader may not know:  Most authors at some point think making our ebooks free seems like a good idea.  Once it’s free, we see a spike of downloads — “Look at my ranking! This is amazing!” …And then we don’t see much after that.  But we keep trying, because it’s a good way to get our books “out there” and maybe build up our audience.  And, quite frankly, everyone else is doing it so we feel like we have to or else we’ll get lost in the shuffle.

Unfortunately, ebook consumers are “trained” to look for freebies — “why pay $0.99 for a book that might be a dud when I can get this other one for free?”  But a lot of free ebooks get lost to the sad end of a rotating Kindle carousel, never to be looked at again.  Admit it, we all have them (I’m including…

Hans Christian Andersen by Anne Grahame Johnstone

There are a lot of articles and reports out there giving various and often conflicting figures about the Indie book market. All seem to agree, however, that the percentage of Indie writers and publishers is huge and growing. You only have to read a few Indie books to realise there is some seriously good stuff out there and marvel at the ingenuity and diversity of the imaginations from which they were born.

Yet there is still a stigma attached to independently published work. There are those, it is true, who see it only as a way to make a fast buck and churn out little more than rubbish. These are not writers in my opinion and it is not of their books I speak, they are little more than opportunists; marketeers who, seeing a potentially lucrative product churn out a cheap imitation that…

These past few weeks, I’ve been making a lot of lists.  On Twitter, on Facebook, on blog favorite folders, etc., etc.  I’ve been doing this not only because I have some OCD tendencies but also because of this – my author-based collection/database has become paralyzingly vast and in some ways useless.

I’ve been at this author thing for a while now.  Certainly long enough to know what groups, blogs, clubs, and advertising sites work for me and which do not.  In the past few weeks (and probably in the next weeks I’ll sift through more), I’ve finally let myself sever ties with those that are sucking up my time, cluttering my inbox, and in general just aren’t doing me any good.

Some of these sites/clubs I’ve been with long enough to see that our philosophies differ by way of author-to-author support, review policies, etc.  I don’t want to badmouth anyone in…

Okay people this is big so listen up. There’s an event on the 12th of April that you need to attend. Emphasis on the need here. More awesome authors than you can cram into a bus are taking over and it’s going to be well awesome:

https://www.facebook.com/events/800021626731180/

Here’s a little taster of some of the books you can win:

                              

These are a small handful of the books up for grabs in a variety of genre based bundles. There’s something for everyone and a bit more on top.

And here are just some of the other authors who are going to be attending, answering questions, chatting and playing games:

Wolf Schimanski – http://www.amazon.com/Wolf-Schimanski/e/B0094JVA8O

Tory Gates – www.behance.net/torygates

James Quinn – https://www.facebook.com/pages/James-Quinn/1558765681046413?ref=hl

Judy Bishop – http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00OO8ZGT4/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1424533095&sr=1-1&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70&keywords=red-line

Jason Greensides – http://mybook.to/TDSOV

These are just a few of the…