tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6902456921231489719.post6615622185022125513..comments2024-02-13T04:24:09.119-08:00Comments on Self-publishing for Beginners: Fighting through the low timesChris Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03041048445927976912noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6902456921231489719.post-1191088670190362562017-10-10T19:40:52.517-07:002017-10-10T19:40:52.517-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.harada57https://www.blogger.com/profile/06015023155124017905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6902456921231489719.post-79668688173677004152013-11-15T08:05:41.377-08:002013-11-15T08:05:41.377-08:00Great advice. Thank you!Great advice. Thank you!Fleurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02140115605043433713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6902456921231489719.post-70932529189972283972013-11-14T19:26:09.803-08:002013-11-14T19:26:09.803-08:00Hi Fleur, thanks for your message. I had a look at...Hi Fleur, thanks for your message. I had a look at that site you mentioned. My advice would be to be very careful with sites like that. It might be completely legit, but be wary of anywhere that requires some form of payment for reviews. Giveaways are fine, but asking for reviews in exchange for entering a prize draw has its own problems. For example, you might end up with a bunch of single line reviews that say nothing about your book and are all one-star, yet you still have to give a prize out. There are better ways of doing it, such as emailing bloggers or offering reviews in exchange for free copies of you books on sites like Goodreads. Beware serial prize-draw enterers (sp?). In any case, you don't need 100 reviews. You only need 5 - 10 and then you can start getting on promotion and advertising sites, and once your book is making sales you'll get more reviews anyway. It took my six months to get five reviews on my book Tube Riders, but once I had them the rest came quite quickly. In short, getting anywhere in self-publishing requires you to do the hard yards, and they're VERY hard. You have think long term. Two years in and I'm still making no money despite having almost 2000 sales, because I plow it all back into my books to get better covers, better editing, better formatting. This is in addition to the 3 - 4 hours a day that I work on my books (around a full and a part time job). You have to build the foundation before you can live in the house. That's the hard part, but if you put the effort in eventually you'll be rewarded.<br /><br />Good luck with your book!Chris Wardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03041048445927976912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6902456921231489719.post-22106817176847763862013-11-14T18:10:13.720-08:002013-11-14T18:10:13.720-08:00I'm currently writing my first novel, so I hav...I'm currently writing my first novel, so I have absolutely zero input, except that I deal with the same doubts in writing my novel. (will anyone like it, will it ever sell, etc)<br />I am writing on here to point you to a website called Story Cartel. It's a website where you give away your book on Kindle, plus some kind of prize carried out by lottery (they take care of the lottery part, you provide the "prize") in exchange the people who download the book on Kindle promise to write a review.<br />I have no idea if it works by personal experience, but here is the website I found out about it:<br />http://positivewriter.com/how-i-got-over-100-reviews-on-amazon-in-less-than-3-weeks/<br /><br />Good luck!! I'll be following you.Fleurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02140115605043433713noreply@blogger.com