Anna’s Comments (group member since Jan 15, 2017)

Anna’s comments from the Navigating Indieworld Discussing All Things Indie group.

Carole wrote: "Okay- it's not fair, but you do have a chance. Look, my kid wrote a self-help close to six years ago. I didn't promote it, because I didn't know about promotion. He has sold over 250 thousand copie..."

Thank you for sharing your experience, Carole! :) This is wonderfully encouraging.

Best investment timewise: beta readers. Finding them takes some time and effort, but I've learned so much from their feedback. I love my betas!

Best investment moneywise: professional editor and professional cover art.

Yay, Alexis! Great that you're back! :D

Added my books, thanks for this opportunity! :D

I think you're interesting, Alex! :) You're super nice and it's always fun to chat with you. And props for daring to get interviewed in the first place! I haven't applied for author interviews yet because the mere thought is so scary...

Haha! :D Grammarly is clearly optimized for science fiction. I'm broke too, so my tool of choice is the free web version of ProWritingAid. It also makes funny suggestions sometimes, but so far nothing as profound as your Grammarly.

Alexis wrote: "This author pretty much did it by using BookBub
http://www.thecreativepenn.com/2016/0..."

Thanks for the link, Alexis! Very interesting how Joanna Penn did it.

Wow, I was not aware of this kind of "playing the system". 0_o Thanks for sharing, RL!

Supported on Twitter!

Supported on Twitter!

That's great news, Erin! :D Thanks for sharing. It's the best feeling when readers enjoy the books.

Expat Finn living in Germany, writing contemporary steamy romance and scifi romance. Drink of choice: green tea with fresh ginger.

Not planning my first book release but simply launching it into the void. But it was a good learning experience. Now I know that I should look for ARC reviewers BEFOREHAND. XD

Great! Looking forward to it. :)

Will Navigating Indieworld get a Twitter account as well? I'm not on Facebook, but I'm on Twitter. I'd be happy to follow and retweet!

I was finally able to leave comment to Erica's post. Wohoo! I'll return to this party later, I have to go edit my WIP now. :P

@Alexis, I emailed you a screenshot. @Groovy, I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who has this problem. :) I tried your trick, but unfortunately it didn't work for me. Or maybe I'm just doing something wrong...

Mods, can you check if everything's all right with Erica's blog post? I tried to leave a comment there, but the comment function doesn't work. Instead the "post a comment" button tries to open a file or something.

Is anybody else able to post a comment there?

Thank you Kevin, this article is brilliant! :D

Oh yeah, the royalties.

You say you get 70% royalties from unit sales, that's good. (me too)

In addition you get paid based on pages read on Kindle Unlimited. This is a separate graph on your sales dashboard and a different system. When someone is reading your book on Kindle Unlimited, you see the graph move. Amazon sends you a report once a month how much money this translates into.
In my case, I've made twice as much from KU reads than from unit sales every month since publication, so I'm not getting off the KDP Select train anytime soon. I hope it'll work well for you too.