Mike’s Comments (group member since Mar 15, 2017)

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

Fab, thanks Alex

Weeee, thanks!

ah right. Gotcha :)

I think I'm still waiting on questions from you RL, unless they've got lost in the ether somewhere (which is very likely!)

If you've already sent them, would you mind resending please?

Thanks very much Alex :)

Peri June's interview is live: https://miketurnerauthorblog.wordpres...

I'm good to post Peri's interview tomorrow.

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happy birthday RL! and thanks for the explainer.

Elina wrote: "Hi,

I like it, Mike! It looks like your own and personal. :)

Would you all like to check out my site too? :p

I have nothing published yet and the book is still in progress... very much so. Lot..."


Hi Elina, thanks v much for looking at my site.

I've had a poke around yours - it looks really good. A couple of bits that stuck out to me - on the blog posts, maybe try and make the images smaller. They take quite a while to load.

When the book is published it'll probably be worth having somewhere really easy to be able to click through and buy it too.

Best of luck with the editing process!

David wrote: "Hi everybody!
I just published my first book, Personal Pronouns
It's a mystery in a school setting and my protag is dealing with guilt after losing his wife. Here are the links:

www.amazon.com/aut..."

congratulations!

I've signed up. Exciting stuff.

Erin wrote: "Are you using wordpress.com or wordpress.org? I'd be more than happy ro help anyone with any wp issues if I'm able. Please message me here or email me here: [spoilers removed]"

thanks so much Erin, that's really kind of you. I'm using wordpress.com.
I'll see if i can fix things tomorrow when i have a bit of time, but if not ill take you up on the offer :)

Actually, thanks everyone for your feedback - it's all greatly appreciated. I'll try and tweak it until it's up to scratch

Erin wrote: "Challenges
I need to know within 3 seconds of landing on your page that you are an author and what genre you write in. There should be some visual element to let you know you've come to the right p..."

thank you very much for such a comprehensive response. I'll try and implement some of this this week - I find wordpress to be oddly tricky to use when it comes to fine tuning (such as changing the size of my name...can't find a place to change the font size on that part of the page anywhere, even though logic dictates that there must be a way!)

thanks again.

Hi all,

Quick background - I published my first ebook on a whim after forgetting about it for a few years and it has done quite well (or rather, much better than the 0 sales expected).

I'm planning on putting out a follow up in the next few months and want to get all my marketing ducks in a row before I do, and part of that is my author website.

If you've got a spare moment, it would be great if you could have a click on the link at the bottom and tell me what you think - any feedback (good or bad) is very welcome.

https://miketurnerauthorblog.wordpres...


Thanks in advance!

Alex wrote: "Mike wrote: "This is a fun thread!

Mine would be:
"The world may have ended, but Papa Bear's problems have only just begun.""

That has me interested. very good."

Thanks :)

thanks nice to meet you all

Hi everyone! I've been posting about on the forum for a few weeks - it's a great community - but didn't see this thread until today.

My name is Mike and I published my first post apocalyptic steampunk book on a bit of a whim in January after failing to find a traditional publisher for it a few years back. It did much better than I thought it would so I'm now writing a second.

Here's my amazon author's page: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B06XK6THH5
and Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

This is a fun thread!

Mine would be:
"The world may have ended, but Papa Bear's problems have only just begun."