Review: An Interesting Take on Indie Publishing Success
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 19, 2012
I read and enjoyed the author's Children of the Fog, so when I saw that she had written this book, I downloaded it.  I wish now, though, that I remembered why I bought the previous book.  That would have brought her advice in this book more into focus as I could have connected it to my own buying decision.There is no arguing with the author's success, so I think any indie author should read this.  I do believe there is some good advice with regards to things such as covers and titles, two things that tend be less than optimal as I surf through available books to buy.  With all the books available today, I, for one, tend to gloss over books with amateur covers.A good portion of her book deals with her KDP efforts, and I didn't delve into the details on that as while interesting, I dont think it would be that pertinent to a hopeful author.  I think the first portion dealing with how to create your book and the last section dealing with social networking were far more valuable.  Personally, I am not sure many people are up to her social networking advice, and many would think it would be too spammy, but results are results.  She works this arena, and she sells books, so do the math.Some of her advice is somewhat trite, such as "get on a Top 100 list."  That is akin to "sell lots of books."  That is the goal, of course, but there isn't specific advice as how to achieve that.  And I do think she missed out on the most important advice of which I can think:  write a good book.I do not believe this a blueprint for an indie author to immediately begin selling thousands fo books per day.  But I do believe there are enough kernels in here to warrant indie authors reading it.