Alicya’s
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(group member since Sep 14, 2018)
Alicya’s
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from the Navigating Indieworld Discussing All Things Indie group.
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Gina wrote: "Thanks for all the information about Medium. I had never heard of it before!So I added my first article:
https://medium.com/@ginakarasek/there..."
I've got to catch up with my medium reads today so I will follow you Gina. Congrats on your first post.
Who doesn't have 5 minutes to give themselves for a little stress relief?https://medium.com/live-your-life-on-...
Dale wrote: "This is an aside, but might offer some insight to others writing on Medium. I was invited to submit one of my stargazing stories to the publication "Dialogue & Discourse." Once I replied that I wou..."I agree with you Dale. Writing for publication does give you a wider audience for sure.
D.J. wrote: "I was asked a while back to write for a publication, but it seemed very science driven filled with people with letters after their name.Meanwhile, I won an award
https://medium.com/@debzcooper/..."
Congratulations!
D.J. wrote: "In other news, having not seen one page read whilst having Missing Remnants in KU and also having some basic Amazon ads running, its stint in KU is over and I'm throwing it out directly to Kobo and..."My stint with KU will be over on Feb 24th too. I going to try my luck going wide and see what happens.
It will be interesting to see what happens for you!
Sam (Rescue Dog Mom, Writer, Hugger) wrote: "Thank you very much, Alicya. My mental and physical illnesses continue to worsen, causing me to lose hope. Hugs"I'm so sorry to hear that Sam. I know mental health issues are different for everyone but if you'd like to hear how I recovered, I'd gladly send you a pdf of my book. Sometimes reading other people's stories can help (I read a lot of them before I got well) At the very least it might give you a laugh and some hope :)
Anyway, just let me know. I realize many people don't like to read heavy topics such as mental health so please don't feel obligated.
Wishing you well
Alicya
Sam (Rescue Dog Mom, Writer, Hugger) wrote: "Sharing this with anyone who has mental illness and taking Benzodiazepines as I do. This is truly frightening. It is my response to a 2-part series on Benzos written by Michelle Monet. Hugshttps:..."
I responded to the article too Sam. It breaks my heart how many people are in this situation and am thankful that my intense fear of addiction prevented me from taking them myself.
I'm sorry you're affected by this.
Sam (Rescue Dog Mom, Writer, Hugger) wrote: "I'm with you both Alex and Alicya (read your article, too.) Come on Spring... hurry up and get here!1 We NEED the sunshine. Hugs"Exactly right Sam!
Alex wrote: "Thanks, Alicya, good article from you as well. as a SAD sufferer, Winter can tough."Thanks Alex. Hope you're feeling better
Alex wrote: "You're never going to believe this, but I actually posted something to Mediumhttps://medium.com/@arcarver87/trying...
And I put a post on my blog
http..."
consider it done Alex!
Great idea Alex.I do find there's a big difference in options available depending on whether your book is free or not and also the genre.
Mine is not free and is part self-help/ part memoir so it's a bit more challenging but so far I get most success with Amazon sponsored ads.
Alexis wrote: "I have had two work in progress; both over 50.000 for years now!Today I finally got to write THE END on one of them.
Now I am going to buy cake and cry."
How fabulous. Hope you enjoyed your cake (and your cry)
On checking my book sales this morning, I'm surprised to see that 50% of orders are for paperbacks. I don't sell a lot (average one per day) but it's uplifting to see that physical books are still going strong.
So happy I didn't listen to the 'expert' that told me not to waste my time creating the paperback ;)
Alex wrote: "I managed 1 episode then got hit by bad news that put me in a funk, so not sure I can say i'm doing well yet"Hoping tomorrow is a much better day for you Alex.
Here's this week's good - not so good - all good again!Last November I created a giveaway for a gift pack of my book and journal. The woman who won it loved it and contacted me earlier this month to see if she could buy 2 more gift packs.
I had never thought to sell the book and journal together but couldn't say no and she wired me the money.
The problem was I didn't have any spare journals so I quickly ordered a few copies with a delivery date of Jan 20th and I waited and waited.
When they didn't arrive by Jan 24th, I checked the global shipping company' tracking and it said the package had been dropped off at my door on the 19th......nope.
Called Amazon (the shipping company will not take calls from Amazon customers :( After finally answering all the questions such as "Did you look everywhere?" she said the package is declared lost and my money would be refunded.
That's great but I still had a customer who had prepaid and I still didn't have the books. Went through the process again to order the books and even with fastest shipping it takes at least a week but I was stuck so had no choice.
The next evening at 8:00pm a box arrived at my door.
My original order arrived!
phew!!!
