Julie’s Comments (group member since May 16, 2017)

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

Carole wrote: "I just finished reading a bio of Marie of Guise, Mary, Queen of Scots mother, I'm reading a book about the wives of all the presidents starting with Jackie Kennedy. Just finished her bio.

I'm work..."
Sounds busy. I'm going to write a series of blog posts then put them in a kindle collection and pb. It's going to be aimed at chemistry students. Not AP, not SAT II prep...just translating the jargon for normal, college prep kids.

Carole wrote: "Me too!!!"

What are you working on?

Personally, I've been on a non-fiction kick of late.

Alexis wrote: "Facebook approved my ad. FINALLY! And I'm actually seeing good results. No sales (boo!) but lots of likes and post engagement. It shows me that my cover is eye-catching. The blurb needs a bit of tw..."
I can help ;-)

This is more of a new release, but 5 Steps to Better Blurbs is now available from Amazon.

There are a limited number of review copies left on Instafreebie. https://www.instafreebie.com/free/BpldS
Password: 5Stepsrev

It won't let me PM you. http://juliecgilbertwriter.com/

It's called Julie C. Gilbert Writer, Teacher, Believer

Prices are going up to $20 but it's still $15 if you mention this group or you buy my book on blurb writing.

I was going to try KDP's paperback but the dang thing had the wrong setting for the cover...it whined about having 12.5 inches across instead of 12.475

Carrie wrote: "Julie wrote: " I'd see what happens with a rewrite then do an addon (ie. pay the difference..."

Sounds good. I'll send you an email shortly."
Your suggested rewrite is finished. Let me know how you like it.

Totally up to you. The prices are changing soon, but if you mention you saw this here...I'll always honor the $15 price. I'd see what happens with a rewrite then do an addon (ie. pay the difference) if you want something worked from scratch.)

I think the way you can do that is put a code or something within the book. ie. "tell me the third word on pg (something in the middle)" to enter.

But you do have to leave it open to everybody to be legal in most places.

Marjorie wrote: "Hi, my name is Marjorie Reynolds, and despite knowing about Goodreads for years, I haven't participated until now. I published two novels through William Morrow (HarperCollins), but it soon began t..."

Marketing's the hard part, but we do better when we stick together... ;-)

R.L. wrote: "Nice to have you Julie!"

Thank you. It's good to see a nice, active group. Been an indie author for a long time...networking is super important.

Carole wrote: "Hi Julie- so glad you came by!!! Thanks for that spot on your blog today!"

Pleasure to be here. I'm glad to reconnect. Nice, active group you've set up here.

Deanie wrote: "Hi Julie,
I' d love to help but I specialize in children's book editing. I don't have any experience with mysteries or other types of stories. All the best."

The book is about writing better blurbs. Should be useful to most indie authors. But I totally get it. No problem. Thanks for stopping by to say hi.

... or for $30, I'll write one from scratch from your notes.
Short version of a rewrite:
You send me your blurb draft and any notes you think might be helpful in fleshing out the description. You'll also need to let me know if you want an invoice.

I'll do the rewrite then let you comment on that and make suggestions. I'll then do one revision of that rewrite.

I also do $10 10-page manuscript critiques or 20-pgs for $15. I might open a separate thread for that later. But for now, I've got a non-fiction book on blurb writing to tinker with

Note: prices changing soon as I publish the book on improving blurb writing. But I will honor the $15 price if you mention you're from this group.

Here's my website where you can read more details.
http://www.juliecgilbert.com/author-s...

Hi,
I just posted a blog spotlight created by Carole P. Roman. She suggested I throw the same offer up here.

My email is devyaschildren@gmail.com.

Basically, you write what you want (within reason) and I tweak the post so that it fits the page and pleases the SEO monsters. Then I send you the link with when it'll go live. That's it. It's mainly up to you to publicize the fact that it's there, but I might tweet something too.

My blog mainly publishes reviews of audiobooks and interviews with authors and narrators of those audiobooks, but I'm willing to expand. My preferences are for scifi, fantasy, mystery, and Christian stuff.

One last rule, it has to be kid-safe. I'm a teacher and if any of my students run across the blog, it needs to be safe for them to read. Same goes for the types of books I promo. Sorry, no hard core horror or erotica.

Hi all, I got invited by Carole P. Roman (thanks!). I usually don't join GR groups, but I'll give it a go. Nice to meet everybody.

I write mysteries, scifi, YA, Christian mysteries, poetry, and soon, non-fiction. My first non-fic book will be about writing blurbs. Poke me if you think you'd like to beta read that. Will def require feedback because this is new territory to me. Like I said, fiction's been my world for a long time.

In other news, I teach high school chemistry.

Let's connect.