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

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

Hi Chrys. I misread "church" as "crutch" because I'm weird. Welcome. Have fun.

Ah the unknown author. That would be me more than you, I haven't done any sort of out of the house promo. Enjoyed reading your blog post.

Picked up our "new" car today. Cheaper than the old one, yet newer. Diesel, not petrol, yet with only £20 car tax instead of £130. Infinitely more comfortable to sit in. Just as well because I now have what appears to be a circulation problem in my right leg and both feet. The feel icy. I intend to ignore it and hope it goes away rather than drop off.

Yes I was forgetting you both need pictures. So pleased I didn't pick that genre!

Nice one everyone, congrats! (I awarded myself a coffee!)

These are the Ingram ones Carole? It's a crying shame about the Amazon POD sales thingy, I was really pleased with the quality of mine. (Not an expert, wasn't expecting gold leaf, looks fine, got nothing to compare it too but looks OK to me.)

Angel wrote: "I've decided it's best for me to leave the Navigating Indieworld Group. For reasons that keep becoming apparent to me and I can no longer ignore those reasons."

Why what's up?

R. wrote: "Also, consider the old green-eyed monster."

That might also be true. It's one thing to say you want to write a book, it's another thing to actually do it.

Carole wrote: "AMY- so now you have print! I have you listed on the newsletter as an ebook- can I state that print is available through KDP?

Yes great, if it's not too late and too much trouble, that would be superb. Thank you.

I hope to be in a position in the future to say I'll buy my own ISBNs. Baby steps at the moment.

Just to compare ease of POD. I found Amazon's KDP POD a doddle. Free ISBN, easy to set up. OK for a beginner like me. But obviously no good for Carole if they're playing shenanigans with the availability of POD books.

I have about 5 reviews over 2 platforms I think. (Pleasingly mostly 4s and 5s) My 1 star is from a friend who said he stopped reading at 20%. He trivialised the storyline he hadn't fully read and stated that it might be ok if you like erotica. So yes, those bad reviews from people who don't read the genre are by and large meaningless, or just less meaningful. My husband pointed out the review was a review of the reviewer rather than my book. (And Carole very kindly voted it down for me. Then I raised my middle finger...)

A huge job. I'm wondering if I'll ever have cause to put anything anywhere other than Amazon's POD. Their actions are suspicious with your books.

Very hard to judge reactions to mine Carole. I suppose "any" would be a start. Although I did sell an ebook last week. A whole one!

Let's hope it works. I'm not really expecting anything. Eventually I expect to have a conversation where someone says "I don't understand why that isn't working." It's usually the way it goes, but at least I'll have done the right thing.

Agreed. I've done my best. At least I'm using all seven key words now, when I first published I think I used about four.

Time to move on to other things before I go mad. More mad.

The number of times I've changed my key words over the year! Just thrown a more informed batch into the mix. I'm not expecting anything from it other than accuracy, I guess.

Thanks for the links. Busy reading now...

"Certain fiction sub-categories require publishers to include specific keywords so that the book will show up in that category. Romance, science fiction & fantasy and erotica are three examples. Learn more here at the bottom of the Selecting Browse Categories page."

So um, THAT'LL BE MINE THEN FFS! Why didn't I find that a year ago. Probably because I have only just looked. As you were...

I'm currently googling how to successfully use keywords on Amazon. At the moment I'm pretty convinced that my book is on the Invisibility List of books that never appear anywhere when people browse. Either that or it's on page 300.

Any constructive advice welcome.

Jumps in to say-this is the type of thing I'd look into, take all the necessary steps and STILL not get anywhere, such is my past experience in other jobs.

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