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Self-published author H.M. Ward is a regular on our self-published bestsellers list. GalleyCat caught up with the bestselling romance author of to discuss her predictions for 2015.
“Savvy authors who built their brands for the past few years will begin to utilize their brand in ways traditional publishers failed to do,” said Ward. “They savvy indie will utilize their brand loyalty to build up more indies, connect with new readers and offer opportunities to readers that have been absent until now. Examples include everything from apps to text messages.”
Ward has experimented with interactive ways to communicate with her readers. For instance, readers can now flirt with her popular character Sean Ferro via text message. Besides offering a fun way to interact with a book in the real world, the function allows her to build a list to promote her text-o-gram feature which alerts readers when a new book hits shelves. Ward is also interacting with readers and letting them get involved through Kindle Worlds, a fan fiction site. (more…)
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Self-published—and to an extent, traditional—writers who owe much of their reading audience to Amazon’s publishing platform are upset with the retailer’s new Kindle Unlimited program, notes the New York Times’ David Streitfeld.
The KU subscription service offers 700,000 self- and traditionally published books for $9.99 per month. While this new model may continue to draw readers, writers are earning less. Successful romance author Holly Ward, writing as H.M. Ward, saw her income drop 75% after two months in the program. She wrote on the site kboards under the topic “KU Crushed My Sales,” “I couldn’t wait and watch things plummet further,” and left the program.
Streitfeld writes, “Amazon, though, may be willing to forgo some income in the short term to create a service that draws readers in and encourages them to buy other items. The books, in that sense, are loss leaders, although the writers take the loss, not Amazon.”
Authors’ responses have included calls to unionize. As the Times points out, “since the payment is the same whether the book is long or short, other writers are taking the hint,” and adapting by writing in shorter forms, with serial novels and short stories, and publishing more frequently.
E-Book consultant and publisher Bob Mayer split his book on failures of technology and leadership into seven different Kindle Unlimited volumes. Ward’s first novel was 500 pages; some of her recent works average 100 pages. Volume 17 in her “The Arrangement” series pubbed in early November; she brought out “Life Before Damaged Vol. 1” at November’s end, following it with “Life Before Damaged Vol. 2” two week later.
“I’ve started working with four co-authors,” Ward told the New York Times. “If you’re not constantly putting out new material, people forget you’re there.”
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The Arrangement 16 (The Ferro Family) by H.M. Ward leads the Self-published Bestsellers List this week.
To help GalleyCat readers discover self-published authors, we compile weekly lists of the top eBooks in three major marketplaces for self-published digital books: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords. You can read all the lists below, complete with links to each book.
If you want more resources as an author, try our Free Sites to Promote Your eBook post, How To Sell Your Self-Published Book in Bookstores post and our How to Pitch Your Book to Online Outlets post.
If you are an independent author looking for support, check out our free directory of people looking for writers groups. (more…)
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The Proposition 5: The Ferro Family by H.M. Ward leads the Self-published Bestsellers List this week.
To help GalleyCat readers discover self-published authors, we compile weekly lists of the top eBooks in three major marketplaces for self-published digital books: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords. You can read all the lists below, complete with links to each book.
If you want more resources as an author, try our Free Sites to Promote Your eBook post, How To Sell Your Self-Published Book in Bookstores post and our How to Pitch Your Book to Online Outlets post.
If you are an independent author looking for support, check out our free directory of people looking for writers groups. (more…)
New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.
Fans of Barbara Freethy, Bella Andre, H.M. Ward and Lucy Kevin can sell fan fiction on Amazon based on selected books from these writers’ work.
Writers can visit this page to start writing for the Kindle Worlds program. Amazon revealed the program earlier last year, allowing authors to write fan fiction based on someone else’s work and share royalties with the rights holders. Here is more about how royalties are paid: ”Amazon Publishing will pay royalties to the rights holder for the World (we call them World Licensors) and to you. Your standard royalty rate for works of at least 10,000 words will be 35% of net revenue.”
Other content included in the Kindle Worlds program include: Ravenswood, G.I. Joe, The World of Kurt Vonnegut, Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, and The Vampire Diaries; Valiant Entertainment for Archer & Armstrong, Bloodshot, Harbinger, Shadowman and X-O Manowar.
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