Celebrating Independent Authors
Congratulations to S. A. Molteni whose entry won this week’s Indies Unlimited Flash Fiction Challenge.
The voter-selected story is recognized with a special feature here today and wins a place in our 2015 Flash Fiction Anthology, which will be published as an eBook when this year’s challenges are completed.
Without further ado, here’s the winning story:
Continue reading “S. A. Molteni Wins Flash Fiction Challenge”
Guest Post
by Sophie Jonas-Hill
Suddenly, after months, or years, of feeling like you were getting nowhere, a publisher wanted me. I jumped right in when I should have asked myself – do I want them? I should have looked that gift horse in the mouth, because it turned out to be a donkey. Yes, I made the mistake of publishing with an indie publisher without doing my research first, and boy, did that go wrong for me. Here’s some simple advice I’d urge you to consider before signing up. Continue reading “The Top 10 Ways to Prevent Being Scammed by a Publisher (by someone who did the opposite!)”
That’s right, indie author books are now available through Amazon.com’s Pre-Order (or Pre-Release) program. If you want more information on that program, you can read Laurie Boris’s follow-up article here. This means, you can check books out before they’re even available, just like titles by Stephen King, Clive Cussler, and other famous names.
Readers: look in the comment section below. If you see a book that interests you, click over and reserve your copy. How easy is that? (If you don’t see the book covers, adjust your browser’s adblock settings.)
Authors: if you have a book available through the Amazon.com Pre-Order Program, post it FOLLOWING THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW. Authors who do not follow instructions will have their comments deleted.
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1. Book title
2. Author name
3. A one sentence blurb (tweetable in length.)
4. The Amazon link to download the book
5. The date the book will be released
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