The IndieView

My friends who went the traditional route were spending a year and even two getting an agent and finding a publisher. Then it’s at least another year before the book comes out. My indie friends, and those who signed with small publishers like mine (Red Adept Publishing-RAP), had their books in hand and were moving on.

Elizabeth Buhmann – 6 June 2013 Continue reading →

I brainstorm the plot roughly. Then I brainstorm it fuller with a friend, then I just write from the gut. If I slow down, I brainstorm while doing something mindless like vacuuming or floating in the pool, etc.

Elizabeth Alsobrooks – 4 June 2013 Continue reading →

Indie publishers are a mixed blessing. Sure you can get published even if you are an unknown, even if you’ve never written so much as a word before, even if you don’t have an agent. But the other side of it is that you won’t get a sweet advance check from the publisher. And even though the publisher will, depending on the publisher, do some marketing for you, most of it is up to you. 

Jon Bradbury – 2 June 2013 Continue reading →

My pet hate is the futile, never-ending cycle of self-promoting tweeting between Indie-Authors. Writers should be more creative and supportive of each other when approaching promo. Tweeting “here’s my book, buy it,” fifty times a day is like throwing adverts written on confetti and hoping one person in ten thousand reads it after picking it off their jacket; and that one person in a hundred thousand, follows the link to your book.

Mark Wilson – 30 May 2013 Continue reading →

If there is any advice I could give, it would be to never stop. Even if life gets in the way and you have to put your focus on important things like family, work, school. Please handle your business, but continue to work on your craft. It is hard, manual labor and serious time has to be invested to create something of quality. 

Eric Danhoff – 27 May 2013 Continue reading →

I realized when I was writing my first book, Inheritance and Other Stories, which also dealt a lot with Southern Missouri, that rural areas have an underbelly that I know all too well. I thought the best way to document that underbelly were snapshots, and to me, that’s essentially what poems are.

Jarod Powell – 23 May 2013 Continue reading →

Other than the two main characters who were completely cooked up in my head (and maybe taken from my own quirky personality at times) my characters were all based on someone I knew at the time. Loosely based, but they can see themselves in there, I think. We used to call each other by our character names at the bank. I miss those days…ok maybe I just miss the people. 

Erica Lucke Dean – 20 May 2013 Continue reading →