Eldon’s Comments (group member since Jan 05, 2017)

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

R.L. wrote: "fill out tons of those free .99 book promos ..."

Are you saying there are websites that will promote your .99 deal for free?

Carole wrote: "RL and Alex are 100 percent correct. You never stop promoting a book. I just bought The Handmaiden's Tale because Amazon was advertising. It's a forty year old book!"

But they haven't been promoting it for 40 years. They started up again because of the television series.

It is hard to implement the rotational pattern though for a couple of reasons. First, I don't know how it works in the U.S. but, outside America Amazon forces you to use your countdown days all at once. This means one sales spike per month as opposed to three or four.

And second, working the second and third books into the mix requires a certain number of reviews (usually) which I don't need to tell anyone are hard to come by. Harder for the later books in a series than the first for sure.

This is a question I posted on the Facebook page a while back now and never received a response so I figured I'd give it a go here.

At what point do you stop paying for promotion of your book? Is it when you switch to the next book or sooner?

Good to know Anna :)

C.L. wrote: "Eldon wrote: "Congratulations C.L.!!! Awesome news about Bookbub :D

What does non US mean though? It won't be on the .com site?"
Their newsletter is segmented by country so only people in non-US c..."

Good thinking :)

Congratulations C.L.!!! Awesome news about Bookbub :D

What does non US mean though? It won't be on the .com site?

Thanks Justin! Nice to get a view from someone who has used them :)

Carole wrote: "I'd rather take the money and spread it in multiple and diverse places. Besides, there are tons of free blogs to get your book on and stir up interest."

No doubt. :)

Carole wrote: "How many books do you have to sell to cover 149.00? I've never heard of them. I find those places are so full of books, mine would get lost."

I never found what they were charging. What do they give for 150 dollars!? Sheesh!

Does anyone know anything about Author Marketing Club? http://www.authormarketingclub.com/ Has anyone used them? Anyone a member? And is it worth the money?

Amy wrote: "Awesome thank you Ben."

You went with the humorous :D Looks great Amy!

Amy wrote: "Alex wrote: "Amy wrote: "I may have submitted Nate and Day everywhere for pre-order. I've set the date of release for 14th July. And I think I've done everything I need to do, I'm just waiting for ..."

Sarcastic one is pretty funny Amy :)

Congrats Amy!!

Congratulations Alex! It won't help with your free charts but I just got my copy of Written in Blood :)

Judy wrote: "Eldon wrote: "On the subject of copyright... do we have any lawyers present? I'm wondering about the inclusion of song lyrics in books. I've seen it done and was wondering if giving proper credit t..."

So I've discovered. Thanks Judy!

Annabelle wrote: "It was called "Remember Me" by Lynda Renham."

Thanks! :)

Thanks for the replies :D

On the subject of copyright... do we have any lawyers present? I'm wondering about the inclusion of song lyrics in books. I've seen it done and was wondering if giving proper credit to the owner of the copyright is enough or do you need prior permission from them before inclusion?

Anyone know?

Annabelle wrote: "I recently read a book on Amazon that was a best seller in thrillers with over 100 positive reviews and very few negative reviews, and the complete lack of commas was startling to me. The person ma..."

May I ask what the name of the thriller was?