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Galaxy Girls

Self-publishing: copy edits, tagging, odds and ends

September 19, 2011 by Edie Ramer 26 Comments
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 In June, a writer friend and I drove to an event together. On the way there, she said I’m one of the few indie authors whose books she’s read that don’t have a lot of errors and are formatted well. She said she buys a lot of e-books by indies and often feels cheated. You … [Read more…]

Posted in: Indie Publishing, Writing Business Tagged: Amazon, Author Central, Cattitude, copy edits, Dragon Blues, ebook formatting, Entangled, Galaxy Girls, Lori Devoti, self-publishing, Smashwords, tagging, Trish McCallan

Promoting your e-books on Amazon and Yahoo forums

August 15, 2011 by Edie Ramer 30 Comments
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In How I Sold 1 Million Books in 5 Months! by John Locke, he talks about targeting your reader audience and reaching them with blog articles. I know someone who’s gone beyond blogs and is using Amazon and Yahoo forums to reach her reader audience. Trish McCallan isn’t even published but she’s already getting emails … [Read more…]

Posted in: Marketing, Writing Business Tagged: Amazon forums, Black Dagger Brotherhood, Forged in Fire, Galaxy Girls, indie publishing, J.R. Ward, John Locke, Magical Musings, Trish McCallan, Yahoo forums

How to promote your books on Goodreads

July 18, 2011 by Edie Ramer 27 Comments

My new sci fi romance, Galaxy Girls, is just out, my shiny new baby. I wanted to learn how to use Goodreads for promotion and thought some of you might want to know more about this, too. I put a call out, and a few people contacted me. If you’ve had any promo experiences on … [Read more…]

Posted in: Marketing Tagged: Amy Atwell, Edie Ramer, excerpts, Galaxy Girls, giveaways, Goodreads, L.J. Charles, Marcia Colette, promotion, selling books

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