True – a glut of bad writing and fake reviews/awards brings down the market. How does one stand apart? It’s this kind of thing that brought down the video game consoles in the early 80s (not just E.T. for Atari). This all makes me blink sadly.
That is every indie author’s conundrum. Friends, family, co-workers. Participate on similar blog and fan sites as a fan so people can get to know you as such, and sign up for their book reviews. Many of those sites also invite authors to post guest blogs or articles (I wrote one about time travel tropes for SciFi & Scary). Have a web site, even a free one, with proper SEO that will make it appear in searches. Buy ads on Amazon if you can afford them. Keep an eye out for author and book fairs in your area and sign up.
Present yourself as professionally as possible and eventually you will rise above the refuse.
Awesome! More fake awards and fake reviews for yet another poorly written book. Thanks for killing indie publishing, Dew.
True – a glut of bad writing and fake reviews/awards brings down the market. How does one stand apart? It’s this kind of thing that brought down the video game consoles in the early 80s (not just E.T. for Atari). This all makes me blink sadly.
We stand apart by producing books good enough to not end up on sites like this.
Agreed – but how to let others know?!? That’s my conundrum 🙂
That is every indie author’s conundrum. Friends, family, co-workers. Participate on similar blog and fan sites as a fan so people can get to know you as such, and sign up for their book reviews. Many of those sites also invite authors to post guest blogs or articles (I wrote one about time travel tropes for SciFi & Scary). Have a web site, even a free one, with proper SEO that will make it appear in searches. Buy ads on Amazon if you can afford them. Keep an eye out for author and book fairs in your area and sign up.
Present yourself as professionally as possible and eventually you will rise above the refuse.
Great info, thanks!
Surely Dew Pellucid deserves om-nom-nom-de-plume?
Check out the Amazon preview … is it just me seeing a load of long smears like a stuck fax?
I saw that too. Bad code?