tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post7928884455227634207..comments2024-03-28T02:00:11.260-05:00Comments on A Newbie's Guide to Publishing: Melinda DuChamp & Summer DanielsJA Konrathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08778324558755151986noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-86184790843025303842014-03-14T11:20:34.709-05:002014-03-14T11:20:34.709-05:00If you have already defined the type of essay writ...If you have already defined the type of <a href="http://essayreview.com/" rel="nofollow">essay writing services reviews</a>, it's time to get to work. To help you cope with success, you may want to read and enjoy the following top essay writing tips.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00677343721378578086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-86850908060228220082014-03-14T02:34:59.458-05:002014-03-14T02:34:59.458-05:00Also, I review anonymously on Amazon myself, as an...Also, I review anonymously on Amazon myself, as an indie author. Most of my book reviews are positive, but I don't want anyone thinking that I'm butt kissing any other authors in particular. That's why I value the option of reviewing anonymously on Amazon.<br /><br />I think a lot of people who buy books from Amazon would be very pissed off if they couldn't review anonymously any more. Most people who buy books don't bother to review, but when they do and they want to do so anonymously, they appreciate that they can do so.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-13249265735225616752014-03-14T02:32:05.709-05:002014-03-14T02:32:05.709-05:00Oh poop, I think you're right, Joe. I'm an...Oh poop, I think you're right, Joe. I'm an indie author and I signed that petition without really thinking about it. I was just angry at the trolls. I didn't realise that the way I've avoided trolls all these years is by ignoring them. I just didn't go onto Goodreads or any Amazon forums. By not engaging with the trolls, they didn't know who I was and never attacked me. It's obvious to me now. If authors don't want to be bullied then don't go where the bullies are! Duh.<br /><br />I wonder if I can get my name off that petition...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-31904882050406821312014-03-10T08:53:48.400-05:002014-03-10T08:53:48.400-05:00As long as I’m here, I also want to thank Summer. ...<i>As long as I’m here, I also want to thank Summer. My pseudonymous smut was launched when I did a guest post on Joe’s blog back in September (http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/09/guest-post-by-brianna-salera.html), and Summer was kind enough to put a blurb for it on WTRAFSOG. Summer, your kindness rocks.<br /><br />Alas, and nonetheless, my sales took a precipitous dive soon after the book’s launch. I haven’t written a second one and was seriously thinking of giving up. But some of Summer’s ideas in this post have me rethinking. I’ll be following Summer’s FB page and new app. If Amazon won’t provide fair visibility, maybe Summer’s future plans might.</i><br /><br />My pleasure Brianna. :-)<br /><br />I think as technology changes we do well to adapt and change with it, opening up new avenues of promotion and thinking outside the box.<br /><br />As Joe has long proposed ... don't be afraid to experiment! <br /><br />Summer<br />https://www.facebook.com/WhatToReadAfter50ShadesOfGreyAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05081851829122947255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-38175927363281063362014-03-10T05:03:17.606-05:002014-03-10T05:03:17.606-05:00"http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-v..."http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2014/0307/Pastor-reportedly-buys-his-way-onto-New-York-Times-bestseller-list<br /><br />Pastor reportedly buys his way onto New York Times bestseller list<br />Mark Driscoll reportedly paid the firm ResultSource Inc. hundreds of thousands of dollars to secure a place on the NYT bestseller list for his book. It's only the latest story of companies who will work to ensure a book makes it onto a bestseller list.<br /><br />Has anyone ever tried this service before?"<br /><br />There's someone, and his name is Soren Kaplan. He relates his experience here: http://www.leapfrogging.com/2013/02/18/debunking-the-bestseller-book-sales-spike/<br /><br />I've blogged about that on february, 2013.Alan Spadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12265515535005420739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-88165979479744808202014-03-09T18:33:31.299-05:002014-03-09T18:33:31.299-05:00I’d read in the comments on this blog that Amazon ...I’d read in the comments on this blog that Amazon suppressed erotica and, though I didn’t doubt that the posters believed it, I had a hard time accepting it as fact. Until…<br /><br />I put one of my books, which had sold zero copies the prior month, on the Countdown Deal. It sold 50 copies in four days. OK, not blockbuster stuff, but proof to me that if it was ‘discoverable’ some people would buy it.<br /><br />Then I put the one book I recently published under a pseudonym up for the Countdown Deal. It, too, hadn’t sold a single copy the month prior.It had zero sales in countdown and I knew that, like the other one, if it was discoverable by those who liked the genre it would sell…at least some copies. So I paged through every screen of the countdown books, in every genre I thought it might have been tucked in to. It wasn’t there. When I went to its product page, there was the countdown meter and the reduced price. So it was a countdown deal, but Amazon gave it no visibility.<br /><br />The first book was mainstream genre with a handful of very good reviews. The second book was erotica with a handful of very good reviews. The only difference: one was erotica and one wasn’t. Really, Amazon? <br /><br />As long as I’m here, I also want to thank Summer. My pseudonymous smut was launched when I did a guest post on Joe’s blog back in September (http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2013/09/guest-post-by-brianna-salera.html), and Summer was kind enough to put a blurb for it on WTRAFSOG. Summer, your kindness rocks.<br /><br />Alas, and nonetheless, my sales took a precipitous dive soon after the book’s launch. I haven’t written a second one and was seriously thinking of giving up. But some of Summer’s ideas in this post have me rethinking. I’ll be following Summer’s FB page and new app. If Amazon won’t provide fair visibility, maybe Summer’s future plans might."Brianna Salera"noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-81594692223848537152014-03-09T18:31:35.910-05:002014-03-09T18:31:35.910-05:00Which, if I remember correctly, was your second gu...<i>Which, if I remember correctly, was your second guess. :)</i><br /><br />I have no illusions that I have the ability to write like a woman. I lack the empathy, talent, and emotion.<br /><br />But if we want to play the sexism card, my realization that I can't write like a woman makes me acquiesce to the women I write with. I hope. JA Konrathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08778324558755151986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-74875601958152644532014-03-09T16:38:37.168-05:002014-03-09T16:38:37.168-05:00Ahh, Patrice...
But it wasn't written by a ma...Ahh, Patrice...<br /><br />But it wasn't written by a man. It was written by a man AND a woman. Which, if I remember correctly, was your second guess. :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09323940362038736624noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-63747060144570780192014-03-09T12:14:54.738-05:002014-03-09T12:14:54.738-05:00http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2...http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2014/0307/Pastor-reportedly-buys-his-way-onto-New-York-Times-bestseller-list<br /><br />Pastor reportedly buys his way onto New York Times bestseller list<br />Mark Driscoll reportedly paid the firm ResultSource Inc. hundreds of thousands of dollars to secure a place on the NYT bestseller list for his book. It's only the latest story of companies who will work to ensure a book makes it onto a bestseller list.<br /><br />Has anyone ever tried this service before?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-47556008874123329332014-03-08T22:02:44.431-06:002014-03-08T22:02:44.431-06:00Good for you, Joe, for starting another good avenu...Good for you, Joe, for starting another good avenue for fun stories and more income. I thought it was written by a man all along: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2PC5HBLWE3TLM/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B008O9ALXA&nodeID=133140011&store=digital-textPatrice Fitzgeraldhttp://www.patricefitzgerald.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-7703244204225604162014-03-08T18:25:23.768-06:002014-03-08T18:25:23.768-06:00Thank you Shandra, Kiki and JKR ...
I appreciate ...Thank you Shandra, Kiki and JKR ...<br /><br />I appreciate the kind words and positive feedback!<br /><br />And you too of course Selena ... :-)<br /><br />I still offer free promo to one and all ... I just started offering paid promo options to attempt to counter-act the FB changes.<br /><br />The APP is simply another salvo in that battle. One that I have high hopes for in terms of reaching new readers and markets.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05081851829122947255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-19152171015414192952014-03-08T14:14:34.396-06:002014-03-08T14:14:34.396-06:00Summer's page has been a huge boon for erotica...Summer's page has been a huge boon for erotica and erotic romance writers - if it weren't for Mark Zuckerberg and those meddling Facebook algorithms! :/ She generously offered the service for free for a LONG time and now has paid marketing (thanks to FB's hanky panky) as well. It really helped boost visibility for erotica/erotic romance when the cockblockers at Amazon and elsewhere were trying their best to keep us down. :P She deserves a lot of credit for that. <br /><br />As for Melinda/Joe - how's it feel to be out of the closet as a smut writer? Congrats on crossing the streams. May the royalties be ever in your favor! :)<br />Selena Kitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17783685215421352626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-61800030277678772102014-03-08T13:28:58.516-06:002014-03-08T13:28:58.516-06:00Great post on all the possibilities with self-publ...Great post on all the possibilities with self-publishing. There is so much more to this journey. We've all just begun. Jill Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10754506629717417267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-46506491062439654722014-03-07T22:00:50.607-06:002014-03-07T22:00:50.607-06:00I personally think that the DuChamp covers are th...I personally think that the DuChamp covers are the best examples of book covers on the market. They are eye catching, and have a unique design for an easily recognizable branding. Good work. I have my guess on your silent partner but to respect their privacy, will keep it to myself. <br /><br />Summer,<br /><br />Great idea on the app. I hope you can find time for your writing, but I assume you must be enjoying your other directions right now. Ride the wave while you can.<br /><br />It is truly a pleasure to see these great examples on what can be done in the self-publishing world. Thanks for sharing your ideas.Colin Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02511279879308565952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-18703875080762931132014-03-07T21:43:17.201-06:002014-03-07T21:43:17.201-06:00To quote the great Chandler Bing: "I KNEW it!...To quote the great Chandler Bing: "I KNEW it!"Suzan Hardenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04600258874634909988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-51457352354626219712014-03-07T20:18:09.913-06:002014-03-07T20:18:09.913-06:00Summer is awesome, and works her butt off spreadin...Summer is awesome, and works her butt off spreading erotica love to the fans. Thanks to you, Joe, Melinda, (and whomever else is in there) for giving back.JKRhttp://www.tearotic.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-53052388171247716522014-03-07T16:54:55.783-06:002014-03-07T16:54:55.783-06:00"Summer is an absolute treasure for those wri..."Summer is an absolute treasure for those writing in the erotica genre."<br /><br />She really is. I can't say enough how much I appreciate her tireless work on behalf of erotica authors and readers!Kiki Wellingtonhttp://www.sexwithkiki.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-58826090509763918842014-03-07T15:17:29.363-06:002014-03-07T15:17:29.363-06:00So Joe/Melinda, now that the pussy-cat is out of t...So Joe/Melinda, now that the pussy-cat is out of the bag, do you plan on sharing DuChamp sales data? We are all curious how well the pseudonym has done compared to your other ebooks...<br /><br />My guess is pretty good or you wouldn't be writing more.William J. Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03363006166880987871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-9531367164609240232014-03-07T13:25:14.358-06:002014-03-07T13:25:14.358-06:00Summer is an absolute treasure for those writing i...Summer is an absolute treasure for those writing in the erotica genre. She's done so much to help us get the word out about our writing, to targeted readers -- and she answers stupid questions from people like me who seem to struggle with reading directions before acting!<br /><br />Glad to see her interviewed here -- maybe even more success for her!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12848486807726442453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-5226882474112144182014-03-07T11:35:47.652-06:002014-03-07T11:35:47.652-06:00Congrats to Melinda & Summer! I thought that M...Congrats to Melinda & Summer! I thought that Melinda was JA Konrath before I even read anything by her. The clue was in the first post when Melinda mentioned hiring Rob Siders of 52 Novels for book design. I hired 52 Novels based on JA Konrath's recommendation and I've always scheduled my books with Amy Siders - who I think works with new writers. If Melinda had been a new writer to 52 Novels, I believe she would have heard from Amy instead of Rob. Happy Coming Out, Melinda!Mary Matthewshttp://www.splendidsummer.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-89480380801021299662014-03-07T11:26:41.302-06:002014-03-07T11:26:41.302-06:00Alan,
I have not personally had a hand in (yes - ...Alan,<br /><br />I have not personally had a hand in (yes - pun intended) ... others trying to copy the success of WTRAFSOG, but there have been attempts.<br /><br />There is a page I believe called What To Read After The Hunger Games for example ... that has not managed to duplicate the success.<br /><br />I think much of the success can be explained by hard work (I've done nothing but the WTRAFSOG page for almost 2 solid years now), but also due to the voracious nature of the genre readers. Many of them go through 3 - 4 books a week if not more.<br /><br />Thinking of franchising though stirs some interesting thoughts.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05081851829122947255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-42988461087668891602014-03-07T11:06:38.607-06:002014-03-07T11:06:38.607-06:00Good idea, Alan.
That could be very lucrative, an...Good idea, Alan.<br /><br />That could be very lucrative, and it would be a much different route to visibility than bookbub. Potentially effective, too.JA Konrathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08778324558755151986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-15623201092262011472014-03-07T10:58:27.853-06:002014-03-07T10:58:27.853-06:00So many closet references, so little time.
Congra...So many closet references, so little time.<br /><br />Congrats on coming out, Joe. I think most of us knew you had a hand in Melinda … uh, what I meant to say was … oh, never mind.<br /><br />In all seriousness, I'm wondering if Summer has ever thought about "franchising" the WTRA idea to other genres. Like a WTRA Harry Potter, or WTRA The DaVinci Code, etc.Alan Tuckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06003811594552160836noreply@blogger.com