C.B.’s Comments (group member since May 01, 2015)

C.B.’s comments from the Support for Indie Authors group.

That is a steep price to pay to allow unscrupulous people to win copies of books so that they can turn around and sell them on ebay for a profit.

A reply for you, in multi-Haiku!

Tips for what it is
Lifts the spirit up higher
A summer breeze blows

Tips for what isn't
Can make some people upset
Many mud puddles

The good can be bad
When it is tilted like this
Silver linings rust

I think that you should release it when the book is finished. :)

I find that inventing your own genre solves all of these problems!

Christina wrote: "Yep! I always manually set the price anyway because I like them to be uniform (ending in 99), so for any market where I don't sell, I set the price as low as it will go. "

Testify!
I agree. Nothing like being in Canada and getting told about a dollar freebie that you want to get and finding out that it is actually $1.27, so you can't get it because you only had $1.07 left on your Amazon gift card.

1) Where's your favorite place to write?
I tend to write on my gigantic coffee table, sprawled out all over the place, surrounded by other projects I have on the go, like art, buttons, and dinner.

2) What's your favorite season to write in?
I don't really have one. The easiest season to write in is Winter, because I can hide from the snow while inside!

3) What makes writing fun for you?
Making myself giggle. Because if I giggle, I know it will make other people giggle. This also goes for something else, but I will not mention it here, because I am a classy CB.

J.D. wrote: "I am not a writer or an author. I know something about marketing and the publishing industry. I want to help writers with dreams not get bamboozled out of $$$ by hucksters who promise them things that can't be delivered. "

How do you know that writing is the easy part and marketing is the hard part if you don't do one of those things?

If you already know something about marketing, I would think that marketing would be the easy part of this equation, at least in theory.

Just Curiosity the Elf here.

Writing and Promoting are two completely different animals. They both drink at the same waterhole with the same friends, so it is always good to look for crocodiles when you mix your metaphors up with animals. What am I talking about again?

Personally I think that if the reader doesn't want to be engaged anymore, that they should just break it off now. Every day they wait will only make it harder to leave the relationship, and with the wedding getting closer and closer, there isn't much time to wait. I know it can seem like a long time, but it will be longer if you wait. I don't want anyone to be in a loveless marriage.
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What? Book engagement with a reader?
Oh. Uh... *blush* never mind then.

Pamela wrote: "You might just have given me an idea for a new story! :D"

I tend to do that to people. Be careful of me! :D

Glossy Matte. Isn't he the lead singer in that new band, The Finishers?
:D

A novel is as long as it is.
No longer. No shorter.
It just is.

Dwayne wrote: "And now someone needs to find a way to have a negative number of words on a chapter"

That would be the ultimate Chapter. I must try!

I did it!
I finally managed to do it!

In my latest work there is a chapter that is zero words long! Not even a piece of punctuation. It's just blank.

I couldn't be more happy.

I'll take a picture of it and figure out a way!

Perfect! Please do.
I used my main character as the stamp. He's been around!

Fair enough!
:D

I always forget that other people can put their books into other outlets because they didn't use crazy CB formatting!

I think I get too many page reads now to opt out of Kindle Unlimited now.

Personally I wouldn't limit your secondary books in a series to not being in unlimited.
Unlimited readers are going to unlimit anyway, so why not let them read it there? :D

You still get money.

I get createspace books as well to sell physical copies.

I also have a stamp. If it doesn't have a stamp, I didn't sign it!

Sometimes I read a favourite thing of mine that I have written to remind myself that I can, in fact, write!

It actually helps more than I thought it would. :)

Stephen wrote: "Thanks, I discovered them in a Google search. I will not click on their link. Is there any point to filing a copyright infringement claim with Amazon?"

Not really, they don't have the book so it really isn't a copyright claim.
I had luck at the beginning using a website that told me what their website hosting services were, then going above their heads and telling the host it was a scam page full of viruses. That normally got them taken down pretty quick.
Honestly though, I gave up on it. A new one will be back as soon as the old one is gone. It hurts emotionally.

There are services that do this for you as well. I am sure they are in this thread already.