Angel’s Comments (group member since May 23, 2017)

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

Alexis wrote: "Angel wrote: "Alexis wrote: "I'm working on our wordpress website right now. I believe that two or more heads are better than one. So please feel free to give me any tips you might have. I will pos..."

Great, thanks!

Alexis wrote: "I'm working on our wordpress website right now. I believe that two or more heads are better than one. So please feel free to give me any tips you might have. I will post my progress in this thread ..."

Hi, Alexis! I got your message on the other thread and have narrowed my genres down to the top 3 for you on the book event list.

Hi, Alexis! How's it going? Nice to meet you. Thanks to you and Carole, Julie and all for this opportunity.

Erica wrote: "Angel wrote: "I have no idea what's going on here. I must've missed this event somehow."

Go to the other thread titled "Book of the Year List". There is a brief description at the top. That is whe..."

Oh, ok. I went to the other thread and just realized that I already posted there yesterday. Oh, I got confused and thought this was some other event. I guess they haven't gotten around to me on the list yet. :)

I have no idea what's going on here. I must've missed this event somehow.

Genres: International Crime Mystery Fiction/ Suspense/Multicultural Romance

Title: Weeping Well (Weeping Well, #1)



Blurb: Fear is like a looking glass....



Author's Name: Angel M.B. Chadwick


Facebook Author Page:

https://www.facebook.com/angel.chadwi...

Amazon Author Page:

https://www.amazon.com/Mrs.-Angel-M.B...

Goodreads Author Profile Page:

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Goodreads Blog:

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Links to Author's Book(s) on Amazon:

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Weeping-Well...

https://www.amazon.com.au/d/Weeping-W...

https://www.amazon.ca/Weeping-Well-An...

https://www.amazon.co.jp/Weeping-Well...

https://www.amazon.com.mx/Weeping-Wel...

https://www.amazon.com.br/Weeping-Wel...

Hi, C.L. I'm pretty much in the same boat as Melissa and R.L. I'm in KDP Select, too but my newly released novel has only been out for 55 days so I won't be able to do the Kindle Countdown Deal that soon and so when I do they never boost sales for me. So I'm inclined not to do one at all. Thanks for the offer though.

Nancy wrote: "Angel wrote: "R.L. wrote: "I won't make the swag bags and I'm SUPER BUMMED! I had to switch banks and they LITERALLY took two weeks to do it and my debit card hasn't arrived! I'm seriously one step..."

R.L. wrote: "Yep we sure will!"

Nothing wrong with that.

R.L. wrote: "I won't make the swag bags and I'm SUPER BUMMED! I had to switch banks and they LITERALLY took two weeks to do it and my debit card hasn't arrived! I'm seriously one step away from the fetal position"

R.L. I didn't make the swag bags either for my novel "Weeping Well." But maybe next time I hope. So don't feel bad, you weren't the only one.

C.L. wrote: "M.K. wrote: "I've seen several articles like this before and I'm sure it won't be the last. One of the local arts magazines in my area recently published an article with a similar (false) conclusio..."

That's because indie music is seen as a more free-spirited genre where as the art of writing, the written word is seen as the kind that should be restrictive, to fit in a certain mold.

That same article was mentioned and talked about on another group thread. I have been on both sides of the spectrum trad and indie publishing. Let's just say I have no regrets about being indie. I don't have to be restricted or worry about defying authority.

I've been rejected and also accepted by (at least one) trad publishers, I've been told by trad publishers "I have a unique insight into mankind," but and there's the "but" coming, "we can't market that." I took as "What a lovely compliment, hmm well I may as well market this quality of mine myself, since they weren't capable." That compliment I take with me always when I write, a perfect quality to have as an indie author, don't you think? I also majored in Journalism, English literature, Psychology, Liberal Arts and three colleges later I still knew I was going to be an indie, I knew it when I was 19 and dropped out of my Journalism.

When I told my professor I wanted to drop her journalism class she said "You'll never make it." I smiled and said, "We'll see about that." I dropped out of the class because it consistently subdued my natural talents, prior to taking the class I had been writing for six years and had been accepted for a publishing contract with Harlequin, when I was fifteen (Harlequin didn't know my age at the time, by the way) which my mother encouraged me to take, but I turned the contract down because the pressure to be restricted in to a single genre and also because I didn't think they were going to accept me so I had only a chapter or two and hadn't decided to finish the whole novel, since I was expecting to be rejected anyway.

Back to why I drop the journalism class, I wrote for my college newspaper and the student yearbook, it wasn't because I couldn't do journalism, it's because I didn't like the fact that once I wrote the articles they were edited so much that my writing voice wasn't there anymore, people at my college were coming up to me and saying "I love your articles," or "I love what you wrote," I'd tell them "I didn't write that." They'd always look with a surprised or disappointed look on their faces. "I would tell them I actually wrote the article better.

The editor edited so much that only a very few words were used that I actually wrote. I thought what's the point. I know I can and have done better. So I told my professor about how I felt and why and she made her comment after she signed the papers to give me permission to allow me to withdraw from the class. I wanted my original writing voice to be heard and it wasn't. It was being stifled.

It was only when I was in literature class in college that my voice could finally be heard, which was years later, when I wrote critical literary analysis papers as an assignment on Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne's works and on Bertrand Russell's philosophical works. I still have those on my flash drive. I'm hoping to make a collection of them and produce a book of my critical analysis on those among others. I always got all A's on literary and philosophy type stuff.

I also took a Philosophy class which I excelled. Point being those things among other experiences I can use in my writing as indie, which probably wouldn't be appreciated or subdued by mainstream publishing. I freedom as an indie. And as far as that article says about indies, I don't care. I've been doing and have been in this writing/publishing industry for nearly three decades, what they say is just static and I have had no problem making noise like that irrelevant. R.L. don't let that bring you down. Ok, I'm done. Mic drop.

Groovy wrote: "That goes for me, too. Thanks, Alexis and Angel. And Angel, thanks for those kind words. I've got some books on my Kindle, if you see a review, that means I've read it--LOL!

(hint: Angel is one o..."

Sure, you welcome!

Alex wrote: "My head just exploded at the thought of all that reading Angel, and I'm someone who loves to read in general.

Wendy, I found Navigating Indieworld very useful, I even redid my blurb following the..."

LOL! Oh, no, don't let your head explode. I'm also writing and trying to finish my own books to get my next new releases out this year. So yeah, I stay busy all time as mom and author. I have to stay busy I get bored easily.

R.L. wrote: "Lol Angel you're a busy bee!"

Yep!

Jane Jago's latest book "Bolded Hearts" is on my currently reading list, so a read and review will be in store, once I narrow my currently reading list, which I'm doing now with each book I read and review. My currently reading list keeps growing. There are currently twenty on my list to read and review, not to mention those on my kindle that I'm also reading and reviewing (total on my kindle over 5,000) so everybody will eventually get a read and review from me. Carole, I've been reading your books to my nine year old son, so a review from me will be coming for you soon. R.L. I got you too, girl. Erica Graham and Groovy I have your books on my kindle I'll be sending a review(s) your way also. I pretty much got everybody to read and review. Groovy, I read and reviewed at least one of your books in the past. I'm intrigued by your lastest one so that's one I'll be reading and reviewing. Also when I read and review each book I usually recommend them to my other Goodreads friends. So I hope that helps everybody!

Carole wrote: "No worries, Angel. They have too much money invested with all of us to let us hang. They will have other programs in place right away. If not, there are other places we can all go.
I got nuts when ..."

I am and will always be grateful to Createspace. They gave me options that I wouldn't and didn't have decades before to make myself relevant as a published author. I waited a very long, long time in between other failed and less than fruitful options for a company like them. Oh, well.

Amy wrote: "As I've not used either the Amazon beta or the Amazon Createspace I don't know which one to use. But as they're both parts of Amazon-why do they have two? Also put off by the 9x6 book size and the ..."

Readers need options and not all of them are willing to read an e-book. Some readers are quite particular about having to read from a screen or deal with a computer even at all. So with that in mind maybe that'll help you decide.

Until Amazon makes a formal announcement in detail about this so call closing of Createspace. I'm going to keep my cool and not worry about. Besides I already have a list of long term and short term goals to keep myself and my works relevant and published. I made sure that I didn't put my eggs in one basket with Createspace. Createspace was a start not the end all and be all solution for me as an author. Being a veteran author I have other options. But as I said until Amazon makes an announcement ....

The KDP paperback option is still in the beta stages and as far as Createspace someone mentioned that in another thread about it closing and that is actually a rumor. Createspace isn't closing. So sticking with Createspace is a likely option for paperback. I've never had anything but great success with them and the same goes for KDP with the e-book.

Groovy wrote: "I couldn't find it, but I'm so impressed with all of the wonderful reviews you got, Angel. Good for you!"
Thanks.