Faith Kindred

Ah, poor Cobalt. In with the bad guys, is he?

I don’t think Denholm’s going to stop being banged up and banged around until the climax finally finally comes and goes. Everything’s gone wrong for the poor guy lately.

It’s okay. He forgives me. 😛

Oh boy this thing made me laugh.

I’ve absolutely nothing to pick on except one thing. I noticed you use subject sentences a LOT. So many of the sentences began with ‘I’ or ‘Me’ or ‘The etc.’ You might try breaking up that pattern a bit— it can sound a little strange.

But otherwise this was great. Sterling has a very distinct personality (so…[Read more]

Ah, I see. 😛 I would never want you to kill Denholm. Cobalt’s rather banged up at the moment as well, though. XD

Only when I am extremely nervous or in a very stressful situation do I talk out loud in second person.
The occasional first person comment on a ridiculous situation is more common for me. Sarcastic first person.

I haven’t done Kindle specifically, but I’ve done the general ebook formatting. The chapter break stuff is a pain. But it’s pretty much the only one, so that’s good. I didn’t have the word doc headings in properly so it took me a while to fix, but if you have that going it should be alright.
@kate-flournoy, we aren’t exactly a huge public. Still,…[Read more]

@hope shhh! *shocked voice* I’m not ready to declare myself in the public market yet! *looks around stealthily, lowers voice* I’ll tell you a secret— you are my guinea-pig.
😉

Also, does anyone know if, after you publish a kindle book, you could edit or add to it? Like if I published a novella and then, a month later, wanted to add a page at the end with contact information or a free book or something like that? Could I change it or do I need to make sure everything is done before I publish it?

Actually, @kate-flournoy is designing my cover. 😉 I’m currently planning on doing the rest of the formatting. And I did just get that book, though I’ve not read it yet.

And I don’t know if I’ll just do kindle. Right now I basically want to have two novellas to build my mailing list though, to start with, I am going to attempt to publish…[Read more]

@kate-flournoy Yes!!! Same here; I asked my sister that question and the look she gave me still makes me laugh.

Second person. Always second person. 🙂

Hmm, no I can’t say I’ve had any experience with kindle (but give me a couple months).

Did you get that book I mentioned in “dear me, I’ve been selfish”. I think that will cover a lot of your questions. If you did the goodriter thing, I think they have some other books that might help you too.

I know if you pay someone to design your front…[Read more]

A random and slightly crazy question…judge me insane if you wish. Most people say they talk to themselves, but what they consider talking to themselves and what I consider talking to myself are two very different things. It would probably be more accurate to say I talk with myself. Anyway *takes deep breath*…do you talk to yourself in first or…[Read more]

@rolena-hatfield Go for it! No time like the present for anything. There is also no reason you couldn’t take an old book and re-boost its sales. People do that all the time.

@ivy-rose Glad you’re liking it. I am too. Did you get Reader Magnets?

Thanks for posting this! I downloaded it on my sweet little Kindle (Christmas gift…yippie!!!) and have begun reading it. Awesome resource! Thanks so much! 🙂

All of your resources have been fantastic Daeus! I look forward to looking into this newest book you’ve suggested.
I’ve already done some self-publishing, but I haven’t yet taken it very seriously. (such as marketing and gigantic email lists, etc.) :p

I think now is a good time to start!

I’m becoming convinced that that is because most authors don’t really have a good plan and so they blame their failure on being an indie. My strategy is to hunt down successful authors, copy what they did, and then add my on twist to make it even better. I don’t really care what unsuccessful authors have to say.

I’ll try to publish a case study…[Read more]

Okay, wow, thanks for the info. So much of the research I’ve done on indie publishing has come out gloomy and negative, but maybe I just didn’t search deep enough. I’ll definitely keep those books in mind.