Carole’s Comments (group member since Oct 19, 2016)

Carole’s comments from the Navigating Indieworld Discussing All Things Indie group.

Wishing all a happy and safe Labor Day.


To our friends in the southern part of the US and the Caribbean - our prayers are with you- be safe in the hurricane.

Great!

They do it all the time. I have books that are out for over eight years, and they take away reviews that are verified purchases. Somehow, the one stars are never taken away.

I want to help!

Congrats!!

I always say that Alex. Book trip has packages for a few hundred dollars. I found their reach amazing

Book Trib runs affordable specials.

I hired a fancy, well-known, high priced publicist for Monsterland when it came out. It was a fortune. I didn't see any big difference. When I complained, he said I didn't give him enough time. He worked on the book for three months. I swear, I got more interviews than he did for my kid.

I found Book Trib after. They show up a lot on Publisher's Weekly. I met with the owner. She's a publicist who went out on her own and realized indies don't have big budgets. She has some reasonable packages.

I also started using amy@authorsxp.com . She runs some good specials and I've tripled my mailing list with her.

Anybody hire a publicist? Did it make a difference?

Thank you so much, Ben! It looks amazing. Everybody, please share!!!!

Me! Me! Me! Ben. I could use some help promoting my new joke book. They don't pay me any royalties or give me a marketing budget, so I'm looking for all the publicity I can get.

Sounds like a good idea!

The problem is they take away legitimate reviews and you can't get them back.
Many of my regular and honest reviewers (librarians, teachers) stopped reviewing because Amazon won't put them up.
For every new review I get, they remove two others.
It feels like they won't let our numbers increase past a certain point. I was getting many more book reviews in the past, and somehow, they've become very scarce.
I notice when I personally review another indie, very often they don't post the review or it takes weeks before it's [published.
It makes me wonder as I watch traditional authors reviews grow, if they get the same attention about their reviews.
My son has one book that steadily got reviews. For the past year, only a few have gone up, but he still sells the same amount of books.
It seems he can't get over a certain number and when they do publish- they remove some of his older ones.

Congrats Dale and Erica

No- you're doing great.

Yup. You have to keep making friends and I think also publishing for other publications help.

That's more than I made. I think it's pretty impressive. Imagine what it would have been if you posted daily.

Pretty.

Cute article.

Feel better, soon.

Great job Alex