The #1 Mistake Most Authors Make
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Re: The #1 Mistake Most Authors Make
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My biggest issue is when one story is broken up into multiple books with each book under 100 pages, especially when it is not obvious that there is a cliffhanger and multiple books in the series. I would rather pay one higher price for one large book than pay multiple some amounts for each book.
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I tend to split my reading time between browsing the "slush pile" of authors who are offering free books, and immersing myself in the works of accomplished authors. I go to the slush pile looking for people who are just emerging, who have put in the time and the effort to create something different and unique. I go to the established author so that I don't get too jaded in my view of how "good writers" write. The best write books I don't like, and new writers can create gems. But both succeed when they focus on giving more in their story than they ever expect to get back.
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Book pricing is a real mistery to me, I have been trying to make sense of it, and I am puzzled. My best selling book (Gates to Tangier) has been a bestseller in Spanish, I have priced it between 2,99 and 9,49 and it sells at all these prices. It sells the same between 6,79 and 2,99. I tried for s short time to sell it for 0,99 and sales were only 20% higher, which doesnt make sense at all.
I think that mostly it depends on the way amazon itself makes the book visible.
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Yeah, it is a great thing to check out for early stage advice!Barbara Dominick wrote:This is a good article. Quality is more important than quantity. Thank you Scott... I'll check out your 10 Step Plan!
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The only thing I regret, so far, is releasing the novel on Kindle before professional copy-editing. I chose to do it, to get feedback and the feedback was both valuable and positive (besides comments about the grammar). After feedback came in it was clear I needed professional editing help. Which I got and couldn't be happier with the results.
Don't gamble on your abilities to copy-edit a manuscript correctly. Copy-editing and line-editing are a different skill set from writing.
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