Amy’s Comments (group member since Jan 15, 2017)

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

I’ll have to make a note of that one. So I know Amazon assigned an asin for my ebooks. I can’t remember if the smashwords one was different. I’ll figure it out. I was forgetting ebooks can just have the free isbns.

Trouble with Smashwords is the system needs a huge amount of help to accept a book first time. I’ve been accepted first time twice but the formatting is about 2 hours if I followed their manual. Amazon does most of it for you. These days I would expect to more or less upload a copy of a word doc and be done with it.

Didn’t know that. If you don’t use Smashwords what’s the best ebook distributor thingamy? I hate the Smashwords formatting procedure and wondered if anyone else was less laborious.

One for ebook one for paperback. What I read said you needed 2.

Thanks Anita. I might actually get to use that one.

I thought the same. My husband wasn’t keen on 100. That’s 50 books. I’ll need more than 10. I’m not sure I’ll reach 50 books though.

I sent mine. Thanks very much.

You're welcome. It was the one that kept coming up no matter how I googled.

£89. It still makes me chuckle. That's got to be for someone who has spent 50 years writing something epic and has no intention of ever doing so again.

I liked the lottery because it funded things for other people. Naturally I would have liked to win a jackpot. We got four or five numbers once. Thought we'd scored a huge win. Four or five numbers used to get people loads of money. We won less than £100, split three ways. Oh well.

Or you can buy one for £89 lol

Sorry, just looked £159, not £149.

https://www.nielsenisbnstore.com/

What I don't know is if this is the only place you can buy them from. I checked a few times and everywhere said you have to go to Nielson to do this before using our whatever it was service.

How much to other places in the world pay for 10 ISBNs I looked it up for the UK and got £149 for 10. Is it roughly the same?

Me too. I know I can't remove the erotica from Radish for three months after finishing Nate and Day. (Or any other book.) I picked up another subscriber on Modified which is free. I keep asking myself, do I really want those two books available for free. It's not like anyone else has read them and immediately jumping at the other two and paying for chapters.

"(c) You may not publish the entirety of any Premium Serial on any other platform until the entirety of that Premium Serial has been published on the RadishFiction Platforms (i.e. not until the publication of the last Chapter of that Premium Serial). Following the publication of the last Chapter of that Premium Serial, you may publish and monetise the relevant Premium Serial on other platforms."

That to me says as soon as I've finished and the last chapter is published, I can publish it anywhere I like. There will be a delay, I can't order a paperback cover until I know how many pages it'll be- or can I? I want to use a different trim size too. They'll be shorter books, they can have smaller pages.

I actually won the money though Carole. I cancelled, I still had three or more weeks left on the subscription and it was like they were trying to entice me to stay, I won three times before my tickets ran out. That's not normal.

I've never looked into Premium Bonds. I suppose for similar reasons of not having money to spare.

Funny you should say that. In order to save a stonking £18 a month, I've recently stopped buying lottery tickets. They must run out soon if they haven't already. As soon as I cancelled them online I won small amounts on both, one of them twice. Tell me that's not rigged. I hadn't won anything in over a year.

Nah, you know so much more than I do, I'm trailing along behind trying to pick up bits of information. We have similar views. And then I sit around wondering how you do all the things you do.

Ugh, it's like my IT career, one of the reasons I left was I really couldn't be bothered with relearning everything every six months. I only went into IT because it was expected, it wasn't what I wanted. Now there's all this stuff attached to being an author that I don't want to do. Where is my lottery win?

Hi Mary how is the book launch going?

I think I’m Carole’s clone. I’ve also performed on stage. I spent my 20s singing, dancing and acting. I did every school performance they’d let the fat kid take part in. But those things were appearing not as me. As me I can’t handle crowds and have other issues with travel and people. There’s was a thing last year at a celebratory lunch. I had to leave. It was my 15 year long service lunch in my current job. But I couldn’t stay for it.

I’m also Carole’s clone because I loved The Martian and have Andy Weir’s next book on preorder. I read Fifty Shades because everyone else was and I was researching what the establishment considered viable erotica. It’s a great example of a badly written trad book. I know it didn’t start out as a trad book. It might have had all the commas in the right place but that doesn’t make it a good book, that just makes it grammatically correct. The critics couldn’t get past the first 100 pages because of the repetition. I read the lot to allow me an opinion. And my opinion is, I write better than that, but I’m a nobody.

I can’t even go to my “local” business meetings. (90 minutes away) Too much anxiety. I have no idea if we have hinges like that over here. I wouldn’t go to them though.

Agree, not necessarily about those authors as I haven’t read them. I have read plenty of trad published books where I’ve thought there’s nothing here I couldn’t write myself. I just wouldn’t be as polished as them as the money for the editing goes into feeding my kids. Some of these trad books are full of guff and that’s after they’ve been edited.