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    Private forum - Authors

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    I like 2 or 3 too, but like Hicks, only if the speed is low enough to include me. :o
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    Best Places for Cover Images?

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    I do have an editing gig through oDesk, hadn't thought to go back and look for more work there. Thanks. Sometimes I have a one-track mind.
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    [PROGRESS THREAD]: Six-figure Fiction

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    My last submission took a good 16 hours to go live, and category is not an issue for me, since listing Erotica automatically eliminates all other categories. I think maybe they are just getting bombarded with new titles; it seems to take longer and longer each time I upload a title. In any case...
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    Ways to learn how to write before writing an ebook.

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    I'm sorry you feel that way. You are one of the people whose contributions on the Hello from Denver thread and your own progress thread I value greatly. I absolutely did not intend to intimidate, nor to make anyone believe I think I am a 'real writer' as opposed to a 'hack'. In fact quite the...
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    Hello from Denver - self publishing success

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    Have we completely exhausted the promote/don't promote subject yet, or are you guys up for another opinion? I just had the opportunity to read an ARC for an established author who has a background in PR. Her website is beautiful, and there's a section called Help for Writers that has posts...
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    Ways to learn how to write before writing an ebook.

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    I second both approaches. As an editor, I'm appalled by a lot of the indie published stuff I'm reading in my genre. In fact, I had to stop reading a title with what could have been a compelling story line today, because literally every sentence had some sort of error. As I struggled to make...
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    Road to Becoming a Fastlane Author

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    I seriously love you guys! Finding so much in common with many of you. Breaking Free, my kitchen floor got mopped for the first time in a month yesterday when my hands reached their word limit--about 7500 plus email and social media. My husband accuses me of not listening to him just because he...
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    Best Places for Cover Images?

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    Even $35 per cover is steep for me, considering I'm publishing something new every couple of weeks. Maybe I'm trading time I shouldn't trade for 'free' art, but I'm using Google's advanced image search to find images I can use under Creative Commons licenses for free to use and modify, even for...
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    Road to Becoming a Fastlane Author

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    Glad to hear I'm not alone in this dilemma.
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    [PROGRESS THREAD]: Six-figure Fiction

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    Holy crap! I must purchase one of these overpriced volumes and see why everyone's buying them. Now off to raise the price on my last one, lol.
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    Self Publishing a Kindle Book & then finding a publisher

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    Also co-authored a very entertaining ebook on the subject Amazon.com: Be the Monkey - Ebooks and Self-Publishing: A Dialog Between Authors Barry Eisler and Joe Konrath eBook: Jack Kilborn, J.A. Konrath, Barry Eisler: Kindle Store
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    [PROGRESS THREAD]: Six-figure Fiction

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    Timely reminder for me. Since I created a Facebook and a Goodreads presence for my pen name, I'm spending valuable time interacting with people who seem to mostly want to read my books for free. I'm not opposed to that if I can get reviews or constructive feedback from beta readers out of it...
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    [PROGRESS THREAD]: Six-figure Fiction

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    Thanks for posting the link, and for the fascinating first post. I have a couple of questions. First, what method did you use to determine there is a deep pool of buyers in your genre? Next, how did you arrive at your calculations to get to your monetary goal? I'm an analytical freak, so every...
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    Hello from Denver - self publishing success

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    I read every post on this thread anyway, and have been enjoying Chickenhawk's updates. If any of you guys who are taking action start a progress thread, please post it on here if that's allowed, so I'll know how to follow you. Side note: I just got the first-ever notification from Smashwords...
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    Hello from Denver - self publishing success

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    Absolutely, and I'm very relieved. I may not have as much re-write to do as I thought. But I'll be looking for adverbs in my mechanics pass and attempting to do it your way, thank you! PS, when you have a photo of Champagne Johnny available, I'd like to see him naked, too. :smxB:
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    Hello from Denver - self publishing success

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    If you want to take out the left alignment, I can't help. If you want to make everything else left-aligned, you could use the Format/Text/Left Align selections, and I assume you'd have to do it for each section. There are also some preset formats in the Compile menu, which is the icon on the...
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    Hello from Denver - self publishing success

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    Could you give an example? I'm genuinely interested; I just thought the adverbs were what did show it. Obviously, I have a lot to learn.
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    Hello from Denver - self publishing success

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    In light of the discussion way up above somewhere about how to carry dialogue, check out these 10 Rules for Writing by Elmore Leonard (Get Shorty, et al). 10 Rules For Writing By Elmore Leonard I'm devastated...I'm violating at least five of them. :sigh: Back to the drawing board.
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    Hello from Denver - self publishing success

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    You've hit on one of my pet peeves. I think I can write dialog, but how to format it is driving me crazy. There's discussion somewhere above in this thread also about 'he said, she said' vs. just the back and forth without identifying the speaker. I've tried it both ways, and still haven't...
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    Hello from Denver - self publishing success

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