Author: Stephen Hise

Stephen Hise is the Evil Mastermind and founder of Indies Unlimited. Hise is an independent author and an avid supporter of the indie author movement. Learn more about Stephen at his website or his Amazon author page.

The Title Will Tell

Long before the prevalence of internet keywords to help people narrow down a search, the concept applied to book titles. To be more accurate, it applied to books in popular fiction. Literary fiction has its own thing going. You pretty much know if you see a book with a title like As Grow the Wild Tulips, or A Garden in Antioch, you’re probably looking at literary fiction.

With popular fiction, the keywords become genre-specific. You can be pretty sure if you see words like heart, song, secret, or forever that the book is a romance novel. As with all rules, there are exceptions. Other keywords also play a role, so Cannibal Heart might not necessarily be a romance. Neither is this short list all-inclusive. I’m sure there are romance titles that don’t include any of the keywords I mentioned, but those words are strongly representative and indicative of the romance genre. Continue reading “The Title Will Tell”

Introducing Auto Fame

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Authors, you have enough to worry about without spending time looking for an audience. Here at PseudoData Laboratories, we have the perfect solution for you.

Auto Fame is an exciting new program that can build your sales and readership, allowing you to focus on writing your next bestseller!

In the olden days, authors had to rely on actual people personally buying copies of their books in order to make it onto the most prestigious bestseller lists. What a hassle.

Thanks to technology, those days are gone. All that’s required now is money! With enough money, we can get your books onto any bestseller list. You produce the books, we’ll produce the “fame.”

At PseudoData, we have banks of virtual “people” who can buy and favorably review your book, making it appear as though your book is the best thing since sliced bread. All you have to do is give us the money* to buy enough copies of your book to make your dreams come true!

Remember, time is money. If you’re not giving us your money, you’re wasting your time.

*Other charges, surcharges, service fees, and premiums may apply. Actually, we’re pretty sure they will apply.

For Sale: NYT Bestseller Status

Moving the needle on your book sales is a chore. It’s hard enough to write a book, but selling it takes things to a whole new level. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could just publish your book and have it appear on the New York Times bestseller list without making any effort at all?

An appearance of your book on the NYT bestseller list is a sentinel event. It is one of the highest bars to hurdle. You’d be up there with the big names in traditional publishing. You’d become a household name. The money and recognition would start pouring in. Steven Spielberg will make your book into a movie, Oprah will want to interview you, and [insert name of latest sex symbol here] will want to have your babies!

After all, an appearance on the prestigious New Your Times bestseller list must mean you’ve sold lots and lots of books. It’s probably one of the books everyone is reading, right?

That’s a nice dream. If you like it, I advise you to read no further. Continue reading “For Sale: NYT Bestseller Status”

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