TKG08 WE WILL BUILD Rel 01 (41 page)

Further, it was to test the issue with falling off the ’30 day cliff’.
 
Basically, Amazon will push your book for a little while and then it lets the book sink or swim.
 
To ‘swim’ usually takes a fair amount of marketing effort.

Like, hours each day.

Hours I was thinking I could use for other things if…if maybe… I could keep releasing a book about every 3-4 weeks.
 
So, one big story, then a short between them and then the big story again.

It mostly worked except for two challenges.
 
The first challenge is myself.
 
I have the patience of a gnat and so when I finished the short story, I didn’t wait to put it ‘out’ in 21-28 days.
 
I released it about a week early against my stated plans.

Boy did I pay for that mistake, sort of.
 

Last week, the overall sales for my books went down on Wed / Thurs.
 
So much that I started advertising again on FB (which I hadn’t been doing).

The second challenge was I offered to help some authors if they felt what I was doing would help them.
 
I had been mentoring four (4) authors and thought that I would double that and be helping 8 authors.
 
I offered this on Kboards Writers Café Forum.

Within 3 days we were at 50…then 70…Now the FB group is over 130. Some of these are other major authors who are available to reach out for advice and some are representatives from companies (KOBO, Draft2Digital) that have agreed to be ‘in’ the group so we can send them questions easily.

Thank God!
 
This happened at the end of March while I went to Austin for an Author summit.
 
I would have melted if Scott Paul (T S Paul), Diane Velasquez and Dorene Johnson hadn’t agreed to help shoulder the administration duties while we grow and help me as we move over to another forum to help everyone as much as we can.

Part of the downside of this whole situation is I ended up getting on the radar of some petty ‘authors’ or frankly trolls.
 
I’ve had what are called drive-by-1-stars on my books and efforts to enhance the number of “this review was helpful to me” on the lower reviews to hurt me.
 
Fortunately, I had over a 100 reviews by this time so the effort (while a pain) isn’t a death hit.

Does it hurt my sales?
 
Probably a little (I’m totally guessing it might be 8-12% on the high side).
 
But in the end that person or people will have to look in the mirror at themselves.
 
The question will come up on how I know that the reviews are not legit?
 
Well, when they are 1-starring book 5 and talking about how they are complaining to Amazon about something we talked about on an AUTHOR’s forum?

Yeah, that’s another ‘
author’
, not a reader.
 

One of the gripes is that I have a line between my paragraphs.
 
Mind you, this is how I personally LIKE to read.
 
I like paragraphs with a line between them.
 
Does Amazon care? No.
 

So, screw them and the horse they rode in on.

So, I got caught up working with 100+ authors while needing to get this book out.
 
This is in a forum, so a lot of authors are helping each other – not me helping all of the time. I’m about a week beyond where I would like to be, but without the incredible support of this books beta readers and production editor (see them up front, THEY are the reason this book is in your hands so quickly) I would still be two weeks away.

Thank God for them!

Further, I screwed up.
 
Due to my poor handling of this stuff, dealing with personal support requests, and pushing on my writing, I failed to keep a good relationship with the Beta Readers and stumbled dealing with something that frankly wasn’t a big deal, but I succeeded in screwing it up anyway.
 
Fortunately, they are wonderful people and ... well, they are wonderful people.

That is why
THIS BOOK
is dedicated to them.

So, now the question gets begged (because, I’m willing to beg)… What am I doing as an Authoring Outlaw this time?

I’m adding a good amount of author’s you can reaad to the back of my book.
 
Why?
 
Because I can.
 
These are cool people and some of them are incredible writers.
 
Some, maybe not.
 
I did NOT limit who I would help.
 
I told them that my fans were chatting about what to read when they finished with my latest.
 
I told an author group my fans were incredibly cool people and would like to engage with authors and would they like to get a chance to introduce themselves?

Knowing that a lot of authors are introverts (I call it rejection adverse), I told them to just plug their information into my forum, and I would email my fans AND I would plug them all in my book.

Why?
 
Because you, me and these authors are all people making a new engagement reality for readers and authors.
 
Together.

I’m doing my dead level best to figure out what readers want / like / need and delivering it.
 
At the same time, I want to help those who deep in their soul want to make a living at writing a chance to do it.

They can’t make a living if no one is willing to give them a chance, a hand up and believe it or not every one of
you
reading this has allowed me the opportunity to give them that hand.

Why?
 
Because this book is going to sell 2,000 copies in the next two to three weeks.

That’s a number that is going to help more than one of these authors see something really, really cool.
 
Their sales take a pop up… Maybe a lot for some of them.

A couple of these authors are already big sellers and realize that sharing is caring.
 
Some will get ten sales and lay their head on the desk and smile to themselves with a tear coming out.

Trust me, it works exactly this way.

I did it, hell, I STILL do it.

Let me explain.

This is my 9
th
book (8 full books, 1 short story).
 
I’m about to start biting my nails in a few hours when I hit ‘publish’.
 
Then I’m going to fret and worry and agonize that this book SUCKS.
 
That the cover wasn’t right, that… well, you get the picture.

Then sometime in a few days or so, I’ll see some happy reviews and peek above the desk and go, “maybe that one was ok, they seemed to like it…”.
 
Only to bite my nails again in 5 weeks or so as I push out the next book.

I’m excited about this story.
 
This is the first book of the new arc.
 
It is, for all intents and purposes, the beginning of the next 7 and I like how it is shaping up.

Now, we have ‘more’.
 
More people, more activity, more bad-guys and more problems.
 
Because, without problems, we don’t have a story.

For those who are asking me ‘will my favorite character die’.
 
If you don’t know if they are living in the future?
 
They can die.
 
Unfortunately, these seven books get more dangerous… And then the final seven are … well… really tough.

Hold on to your hats during this arc.

Want to visit Maxwell’s in Sydney?
 
It is a real coffeehouse
.
 
The owner (Pip) is a real person and she is a FAN
 
I asked her permission to use her café as a scene location and she not only gave me her permission, she helped with the book and is a HOOT to listen to.
 
If you have a minute, check out her FB page and “Like” It.
 

Let’s get Maxwells fans from AROUND THE WORLD.

She deserves it. She is a spunky woman who would fit right in Bethany Anne’s group.
 
Here is the link:
 
https://www.facebook.com/www.maxwellscafe.com.au/?fref=ts

As of right now, she has 82 Fans on the page.
 
What say we up that a few hundred?
 
Would you do that with me?
 
Then, in her comments occasionally make a mention that you love her allowingw Samuel and Richard in her place?
 
(By the way, no one killed there during the making of this book).

BTW – J.L. Hawk (Jordan) is a real author.
 
I sat next to her at Smarter Artists Summit and we were told by Boyd Craven (another author) about how he and a friend were ‘killing’ each other in their books.

So, I told Jordan I was killing her – right after I made her a prostitute!
 
She thought it was hilarious.
 
Here is her Amazon Author Page (complete with Pirate hat):
http://www.amazon.com/Jordan-L.-Hawk/e/B00A2336YC/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1461294451&sr=1-1

Stop by and say ‘hi’ sometime!

P.S. - Thank you Emily Clair for requesting a resolution for Peter and his Father… It made me tear up.

You can find book links on my Amazon Author Page here:
 

http://www.amazon.com/Michael-Anderle/e/B017J2WANQ/
 

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Software used to write this book is Scrivener (Windows and Mac):
 

https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php

Book Cover Images purchased at PhotoDune.net:
http://photodune.net
&
http://www.dreamstime.com
& 123rf.com

(Sometimes better selection on
www.dreamstime.com
- TKG07)

Image software to make the cover (Mac):
http://www.pixelmator.com/mac/
(1.6 ratio @ 300dpi)

Image software to make the 3d book Covers:
http://www.Adobe.com/photoshop

3d Template Script:
http://www.psdcovers.com

Thank you,

Michael Anderle, April 2016

*All credit for me having ANY shoe knowledge goes to my wife, who still works to provide me with even a finger’s amount of fashion sense. Why she asks me to comment on her outfits in the morning still confuses me to this day.
 

Second note, the suggestion to include special canines also came from my wife.

Third note: I’ve now had the pleasure of a trip to a Christian Louboutin store and watch my wife buy two (2) pairs… Oh H@LY Crap… I needed a root beer float to deal with that.

;-)

Ready to read something? Authors Dropping In.

This is copied from my forum post here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/forum/cd/discussion.html/ref=cm_cd_fp_ef_tft_tp?ie=UTF8&cdForum=Fx2LGFPPMJOE6CZ&cdThread=Tx9MSJ0FBQAE8T

Ready to read something else?
 
Check out other Independent Authors :-)

(list in order of forum notes)

TS Paul

I write more classic Sci Fi. My series is the Athena Lee Chronicles.

It's about a female engineer on her first deployment who gets left behind after a big battle. She has to engineer a solution how to survive. My books have pirates, murder, ghost ships and lots of fun. Her sidekick is a AI that thinks he is a famous VID star. On my blog is a weekly series called Wilson Wednesdays that highlight this AI and his adventures.
 

Check me out and have some fun. You can find me on Amazon here
http://www.amazon.com/T-S-Paul/e/B01C7IPHYQ/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0
or catch my Blog and my FREE short stories Here on my Blog
http://tspaul.blogspot.com/

Art Deforest

My name is Art Deforest and I'm one of the many writers that Michael has helped. You can get my book here.
Hunter's Home: Hunter's Saga Books 1-3

I'd love to hear from you. You can post to my Facebook page here. https://www.facebook.com/hunterssagabooks/

You can also check out my Author page here.
http://amazon.com/author/artdeforest

Have a great weekend and happy reading.

Art DeForest

Jackie Dana

I'm a fantasy and sci-fi author in Austin, TX. My first novel, By Moonrise (http://www.amazon.com/Moonrise-Jackie-Dana-ebook/dp/B018TOPIR8/ ), is historical fantasy. In the novel, a young woman from our world gets caught up in a political firestorm involving an outlawed prince and discredited mages, and has to figure out who she can trust. Book 2, The Hidden Moon, will be out this summer. I'm also working on a time travel novel called In the Company of Outlaws.

In addition to writing novels, I'm also an author coach and freelance writer, and I'm working on a series of online courses to help people get through the book writing process.
 

You can follow me on Facebook (http://facebook.com/jackiedanawriter/ ) and Twitter (http://twitter.com/jadana17/ ) . My blog is at http://jackiedana.com . I'd love to hear from you!

Gary Jonas

Hey everyone! I want to start by thanking Michael for inviting a bunch of us to post here. He rocks!

As for me, I'm the author of the Jonathan Shade urban fantasy series (as I type this, there are seven novels and a spin-off book with book eight coming later this month--my editor is working her magic). If you like Jim Butcher's Dresden Files, you'll enjoy Shade. In the SF field, I have a space opera novel called Pirates of the Outrigger Rift, which I wrote with my friend Bill D. Allen (who recently released a fun sequel), and a UFO conspiracy adventure called Guardians of the Sky. You can check out my Amazon page here:
http://www.amazon.com/Gary-Jonas/e/B0050651V2