I will look forward to reading this series of blogs by Don Massenzio regarding Indie author challenges.
As an author, there are significant challenges. Finding original ideas and turning them into something interesting is a significant challenge. If you are a traditionally published author, you have to not only find an idea that interests you, but it has to interest your publisher as something marketable and viable so that they can make money. You also have to please your agent so that they will push your work on a publisher.
As an independent author, coming up with ideas, in my opinion, is the smallest hurdle to be faced. Because we are independent, we are free to publish whatever interests us and then take that work directly to the readers. One thing that indie authors discover quickly through social media, there are niche reader markets for just about every genre you can think of. If you like to right paranormal zombie western romance erotica, there will be a…
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Don Massenzio said:
Thanks again for sharing this, Stevie.
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Stevie Turner said:
You’re welcome.
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Phil Huston said:
Man I’m full of them today – Niche markets? My dad made side hustle in his not so healthy days of retirement by writing for trade mags. Everything from California Hiway Patrol to muffler shops, wire merchants and laundromat supplies. Jeez, the music biz alone has a publication for every instrument and every genre. That’s not including the fanzines. Dad wrote fillers. Humorous Old West history. Something to read besides ads for testing equipment and articles on de-sudsers and how Bob in Springfield reloads winch motors with recycled coat hangers. However, personal opinion, the biggest hurdle facing Indie authors is style. Followed by formula and authorly insertion. And the Tsunamis of adverbs and similes/metaphors. Can’t fix any of that. BUT! I’ve opened a new thing I call Gambits – For authors with dry wells. https://philh52.wordpress.com/2019/02/14/gambits-1/
Plus I finally took on potty mouth https://philh52.wordpress.com/2019/02/13/random-nvdt-writerly-concerns-16-the-potty-mouth-episode/
Niche writing thoughts!
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Stevie Turner said:
Will check these out. Thanks Phil.
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Don Massenzio said:
Thanks for the insight. I will check them out as well.
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