D.J.’s Comments (group member since Nov 08, 2017)

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

Oh very nice. Well done.

I just emailed my kindle app the mobi of my latest and it turned up with the cover and everything. Gradually getting my head around things.

When you do an Amazon PB setup it asks you if you've got an ISBN. I've never had one and just gone with the one they give me. But the option is there to chuck your own number in.

Not if you own them. If you've already bought ISBNs don't you just use those ones?

I came in late to self-publishing, 2016 I think. I saw that Amazon had it's own platform and went with them for ebooks (Smashwords got me to iBooks etc). Amazon didn't even have their paperback system until after I published an ebook. I used the Amazon paperback beta just because others hadn't and I thought I'd see what the new thing was like. Due to finances I have just stuck with free ISBNs on D2D and KDP. If I ever sort out the formatting of the latest paperback in the way I want it'll be a miracle. That too will have to be on KDP it's not worth me paying a setup fee at this point.

I agree with Ted to a point, it will not go in their favour to inconvenience a great deal of authors. However I also think they're big enough to not care about authors with my kind of reach.

If you don't have that many titles, setting them up on KDP isn't difficult if you have access to it. If you already own your ISBNs you're fine, but free ones are available. It would be nice if Amazon would do wassit called-wider distribution.

Yes Erica, KDP offers free ISBNs.

I had to change a cover on one of mine before I knew how it worked. You need to leave the ISBN area of your back cover blank without the white ISBN box they add their own and the isbn.

I am. @BarkingMadDJ (because it’s accurate!)

I’m in be UK Evelyn. Medium pays me with no problem every month. They don’t even have a minimum level you need to earn before they do.

Yes that’s pretty much it. Get some that read your genre. That’s all.

If you get 200,000 people or even five people telling you the same thing, worry about it then. One person is just one person. Actually if you get 200,000 people reading your book you’ve cracked it.

I wouldn’t worry about one person I would therefore concentrate on attracting non suspense readers and don’t market it as suspense, unless your friend has got it wrong.

Plenty of people out there reading all manner of things. You just need to find them. (Let me know when you’ve cracked it lol)

I think the best thing for me to do is to test that out on mine. Until I actually see something work I worry that it won’t. If it’s there, I will worry about it!

Got it and responded. Thank you Carmel.

Thank you. Funny isn’t it? I’ve been DJ all my life and Amy for just 2 years! I’m off to read things.

Yep. Something like that.

Ah ok. I was worried about just that. Thanks.

Thanks for the info. On paper it looks very straight forward. I have questions like how do you go about actually sending them a copy of you book as a prize? Do you just email a .mobi or is there another way that’s used?

Thanks. (Amy-split personality)

What type of thing do you post on your FB takeovers? A couple of things worry me. One of them is coming up with interesting content. The other is having good enough vision on the day to respond to things-I can’t control that one.

Anna Faversham wrote: "That's not to say, D.J. that you shouldn't jump up and down in your own space (your thread) and sing and dance to draw attention to your writing. I've read a little of what you write and it's worth a little singing and dancing. I know what you mean though - it's not easy, is it?"

Thanks Anna. No it's not easy.

I'd like a friend like Alexis has. I could delegate this one right out the window!

MASH, I LOVED MASH!

I think dead people are OK too. (Couldn't eat a whole one). Obviously having a character rave about a celebrity must be OK. I can't see how that would be an issue. I didn't even want to name characters that happened to have the same name as someone who appeared in The Apprentice (haven't seen it) just in case someone found out that's what I'd done in a book that no-one ever read.