Tag: indie
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How I Learned To Hate The VAT
My fellow self-published authors have no doubt already been bombarded by emails from Amazon in regards to changes in the VAT, but I thought I’d take a moment to tell my readers why prices are going to suddenly change on a number of books and how this change affects authors. These changes take place on…
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Independent Author’s Toolbag: Alpha and Beta Readers
One of the biggest fears that I face as an author is the dread of wondering what people will think. The reaction of family and friends is one thing… but what about people you don’t know who are going to pick up the book in a store or glance at it on kindle? For that…
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Independent Author’s Toolbag: Writing Groups
Hi there, my name is Kal and I write stuff. It sounds a bit like an introduction from an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting… because that’s what some writing groups feel like. And in a way, that can be good or bad. Writing groups are, at their root, about support. Writers, get together and read one another’s…
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Independent Author’s Toolbag: Publishing an Audiobook pt 3
This is the final post I’ll have as far as building an audiobook with Amazon’s ACX system. In the first two installments, I talked about the process, first enrolling/selecting your book, then choosing a narrator and finally proofing the narrated sections. You can see those two sections here and here. It was a time-consuming…
Kal Spriggs 