EDIT: Book 2 is published! Free for the next few days. Any downloads/reviews especially appreciated. :)
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Hey everyone,
I promised updates to people who wondered about self-publishing, so here we are!
We received a check for the advance on the book that Harlequin contracted (see
this post). Yay!
We also just (finally!) self-published her first one on Amazon, Memories of Gold:
Memories of Gold (A Gold Rush Romance) (Affiliate link).
The Process:
Step 1: Write the book
Step 2: Set up website, with newsletter subscription (with free short eBook giveaway for signing up):
www.authoraliolson.comStep 3: Publish book to Amazon
Step 4: Ask friends/family/beta readers/Mustachians for reviews.
Guess which step I'm on? ;)
Caution: The following is SPAM (see: Step 4 above), and is hidden, please only read if you want to be solicited:
Memories of Gold is free for the first few days, but if you miss out downloading it in time, please don't pay for it; email me and I'll send you a copy. :)
I would really love it if anyone who's interested would go on Amazon and download it (while free) and leave a quick--honest--review of Memories of Gold. Amazon reviews are the #1 thing that boosts a book's visibility to other potential readers, so if you have time, I'd really appreciate even just a sentence or two.
If you already read it from an earlier copy I sent you (because you were a beta reader), and you do leave a review right away, mention in the review that you read a advance copy--Amazon gets suspicious if a bunch of people leave reviews right away on a book, they wonder if they are fake, paid-for reviews. If you download it and read it like normal, no need to do that.
Also we just sent out the next book to the beta readers, if you'd like to be a beta reader, PM me your email address or post in
this thread, and I'll add you to the list and send you a copy.
Feel free to post any questions you have about the self-publishing process, I'll share what I know (which is very little). :D
Thanks for putting up with me. I plan to post data and figures (on newsletter signups, free downloads on Amazon, paid downloads and revenue, etc.), that will hopefully help other people interested in this.