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

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

Very well done Alex. Feedback like that is priceless.

Thanks. Massive relief.

Yep.

BTW my daughter has just got a conditional offer for her first choice uni next year and another unconditional offer for her second choice uni. Absolutely thrilled. The applications only reached the universities yesterday. The first choice posted the offer online yesterday afternoon. The other one this morning. Some of the students haven't even finalised their applications yet.

That's two books submitted to two upcoming Radish Fiction Collections. Mystery Month for Missing Remnants and Remnants and Iridessian Haunts for the Radish Exclusives collection. We'll see if my blurbs are enough to entice them to feature me this time. (Taps fingers impatiently.)

Thank you.

Thanks Denise. I have a small collection of skulls. Most of the people deserved it...

Thanks Alex, I am trying to be blatantly obvious to get into the Halloween collection.

Sam (Rescue Dog Mom, Writer, Hugger) wrote: "WOW!! Awesome cover, Amy! Great job!! Hugs"

Thanks. I'm really proud of that one. The background I nicked from a free graphics site, but the skull is a picture I took of a money box I have. I had to do some dentistry in Photoshop.

And thank you for your wonderful review of Modified too. Been meaning to thank you for that.

Changed my cover for Iridessian Haunts. Just because. I can't compete with the naked male torsos, so I bring you naked skull.

Well done CeDany.

Denise wrote: "Hi CeDany, Some authors can add books to the author page. The librarians won't change the cover, they'll just add it. Covers are never deleted on Goodreads. "

I think my first book is up to at least 4 covers now lol.

But but but they told me I had to do it myself. You’re the second person in two weeks who has said they’ve been told a librarian needs to do it.

There’s a thread in the librarians group you ask in there. That’s where they told me I had to do it. (Shrugs)

Thing is they won’t get any money from me. There’s only one person reading my books and that’s Carole lol. Maybe my covers are wrong. I’ve gone down the artist created type. The ones they feature are mainly photos and a lot of bare chests. I refuse to believe my writing isn’t good enough.

Radish collections got updated. Neither of my stories were featured. (Shrugs)

I typed up a reply to that CeDany but my laptop ate it. I’ve also dealt with Facebook hackers on my daughters account which I struggled to get shut down.

And followers? Well people that know me here and one or two people I know through work and long term friends have read what I’ve written. But that’s it really.

CeDany wrote: "Just throwing this here, hoping that it'll go somewhere...

I use both Desktop of GoodReads as well as Android App of GoodReads.

Whereas, I can follow authors on Desktop, I've noticed that you can..."

I've got an iphone, so different app, but I can tell you that there are plenty of things I can do on the desktop with GR that I can't do with the app. The most annoying one is that I cannot edit posts on the app on the phone. And being a tiny screen using the desktop site via a browser on the phone is difficult on my eyes and fingers.

Faith wrote: "Can I ask authors' views on a Radish strategy question? Is it better to wait until your complete, finished book can be uploaded? I see writers adding a chapter per week and I'm unsure whether that ..."

Faith, I'd honestly upload a chapter a week. That's what Radish themselves recommend. If you upload everything all in one go you end up at the bottom of your category. One of the only ways to be visible on the Radish app is when you upload a chapter and your book then goes to the top of the list again. As soon as someone else in your category updates their book, you're bumped down the list. I have to scroll for ages to find Modified which was uploaded in it's entirety. The other three I have appear at the top of the categories once a week at the moment. But as soon as Nate and Day is finished which is this week, it'll be lost at the bottom with everything else that's completed.

Even if your book is complete, I'd still schedule the episodes to be released once a week or every few days just to keep it near the top of the list. Radish isn't designed for fast readers anyway, it's designed as a bite-sized reading app for people who only read a bit at a time. That appeared to be it's selling point when I joined.

Thanks Alex, I suspect I need to remove my face and have a sex change before that happens, but we'll see.

Well, once your story is finished, Carole, no, there is nothing you can do with their site to get your story noticed. It's drops down in the list to be overtaken by the ones that are still being updated. All you can do is to draw people to it and you from outside and continually apply to be in a collection. But the collections aren't appearing when they say they will. I'm applying to everyone, but none of the ones stated for October have appeared.

Nate and Day is going to finish this week and I'm toying with the idea of removing both that and Modified which is now way down the list because they're up there for free and everywhere else they're published has a price attached. I've just increased the price of Modified from 99p to £2.99 as well following a conversation I had with authors on Facebook who stated that they wrote erotic novels of 20k words and charged £2.99 for them. They seemed surprised when I said mine was 99p at 86k words. Besides if I was ever going to do a promo for Modified I'd need to reduce the price to qualify in the first place, as many places only take discounted books, not ones that are just at a low price.

Sheesh it's a minefield.

I have done everything by the book for Radish. I've put all four of my books in the correct categories. I have even gone in and edited the covers of the two erotic books to remove the words in case they change their minds and start featuring those on the front page of the app. I have made sure my covers are exactly the size required by their system. And although they don't contain any bare body parts on any of them, I don't think the covers are crap. We'll see if I get accepted into any of the collections I've applied to.

Aww yes I can understand how you feel.