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The brand, Navigating Indieworld, is growing by leaps and bounds. We decided there was a need for a collaborative marketing effort that required a bit of an investment to begin a website, giveaways, events, and special projects that are in the works. Our goal is that you will all benefit from this in many ways. We will ask authors to contribute (social media promoting, shares, tweets, etc) and the organizers will present you with promotional material and a really cool website that consumers can visit, etc. We want to build a large network and support system for all indie authors.
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I have to go out now- but I'll think about it and send something longwinded and boring probably.
Thanks Alex, that's very generous of you.A couple of things before you click on the website:
1. The text is temporary. Erin has offered to do the copywriting. I will make a user profile for her and hand over the reins.
2. The images are from pexels and might be temporary if you all think that we should make the website more colorful. I like a clean palette but I will make it more colorful if the majority says to spice it up.
3. The book event page is up. I've added the different genres. When you click on the genre, it leads you to the books that fall under that category. When you click on one of the books shown there, it leads you to the blurb, amazon link and an individual author page.
4. The author pages contain text/pictures that I grabbed from everyone's amazon author page. If you'd like to change the text, let me know. If you'd like to add your website, facebook or twitter, DM me the links with NAVIGATING INDIEWORLD AUTHOR INFO in the subject line.
5. I added a part of my own interview to the blog lol. If you have an article or interview you'd like me to include on the blog, DM me the info with as subject line: WAZZZZUP ADD THIS. Lol. Or "BLOG ARTICLE".
6. If your book hasn't been added yet, don't worry, we'll add it soon.
7. If you have any suggestions or tips regarding the website layout or content to add, please tell me in this thread. I'd love to hear them! No (wo)man's an island.
8. Our group doesn't have a FB or Twitter page. If someone wants to set one up, please do so! :)
9. Finally, here's the link: http://navigatingindieworld.com
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Alex wrote: "I've just tweeted the link for both the new site and for this group to see if we can get some new members and perhaps some additional participants for the event, maybe even some people interested i..."Whoa, whoa, hold your horses lol. We still need to add an about page and Erin has to fix the text before it's ready to be tweeted lol.
Thanks Erica!
I added Carole's book under the tab for authors. She didn't ask me to do this but I thought it was the right thing to do. Carole is always ready with advice or to hear someones rants via DM (erhm, erhm, yeah that would be me lol), or to offer her time and money by organizing swag bags etc. After shamelessly stealing her book title for the website's name, I thought a bit of free advertising was the least I (well, all of us) could do, really. I'm sure you all would agree!But with your help, I hope that we can use the website to add resources, share cool articles etc. We won't just use it for the EVENTS. We'll turn it into a very cool, non-stuffy, informative website "FOR INDIES BY INDIES". :D
Took me like the whole night to think of that tagline. Lolol.
Here are some books to add to the site...Paranormal Romance- Stillwell: A Haunting on Long Island by Michael Phillip Cash
Paranormal Suspense- Tortured Souls: The House On Wellfleet Bluffs- by Linda Cadose and J. A. Gerber
Children's Fiction- Can A Princess Be A Firefighter? by Carole P. Roman
Children's Non-Fiction- If You Were Me and Lived in... Ancient Mali Empire by Carole P. Roman
PS- Alexis, Carole knows you said one book each but the two children's books are different genres. We figured we'd try it out and if it's not okay we're okay with that too.
Email cnbbook@gmail.com if you need any pictures or anything else.
-- Brittney (publicist)
Brittney wrote: "Here are some books to add to the site...Paranormal Romance- Stillwell: A Haunting on Long Island by Michael Phillip Cash
Paranormal Suspense- Tortured Souls: The House On Wellfleet Bluffs- by L..."
Hi Brittney! Actually, Carole is the one that said one book each. I don't mind. Look at her, breaking her own rule. :p
At first I was wondering if all books should be displayed and not indexed by category - reason being that sometimes you are intrigued by a book you normally wouldn't be searching for. However, I have changed my mind because how terrible to have a steamy romance cover beside a children's book lol! Maybe next year we can have a larger general event and a large Valentine's Day spicier event? Half-formed thoughts, here, lol.
The site is awesome!! I'm working on copy, Alexis!
Erin wrote: "At first I was wondering if all books should be displayed and not indexed by category - reason being that sometimes you are intrigued by a book you normally wouldn't be searching for. However, I ha..."Yes, exactly what I was thinking. Plus it can become crowdy and overwhelming very quickly. Most of us, when we shop on Amazon, we usually go to the genres that interests us the most; this website allows for that pattern of consumer behavior to continue.
P.S. I hate the Pexels images on the Book event page by the way. I will try to find better ones on Dreamstime later. (Or if anyone has any images, let me know,)
Alexis makes this look effortless but I'm not fooled ha ha. She is some sort of design goddess! If you don't believe me check out my book cover ;)
Alexis- don't put this up yet- I forgot to add the social links, so here they are:Website: http://www.caroleproman.com/
Blog: http://caroleproman.blogspot.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CarolePRoman...
Twitter: https://twitter.com/caroleproman
Amazon Purchase Link: https://www.amazon.com/Carole-P.-Roma...
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Paranormal Romance- Stillwell: A Haunting on Long Island by Michael Phillip Cash
Paranormal Suspense- Tortured Souls: The House On Wellf..."
I know, I know- I'm so conflicted- I will only list one- if you guys don't think it's fair- but it's like choosing children. HELP ME!!!!
I already put the books up Brittney. But thats okay. I'll edit the author pages later tonight.
The children genre is my favorite. The covers are adorable lol.http://navigatingindieworld.com/book-...
Alex wrote: "I agree there should be a limit, Carole, but I think that limit should be maybe 2 titles per author per genre, so if you write in multiple genres you can list more books.I don't think it would loo..."
Can you guys add your official links to the other thread or in your case Alex, add them to your post in there? The list one? Just so that I don't miss anything.
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http://navigatingindieworld.com/book-..."
Aww...Thanks Alexis! I am loving looking at all these covers. There are some great looking books!
I think we should put out a call to World Writing and Wealth. They have several authors but no dedicated events of their own. Thoughts?
Erica wrote: "Alexis wrote: "The children genre is my favorite. The covers are adorable lol.http://navigatingindieworld.com/book-..."
Aww...Thanks Alexis! I am loving looking at all these covers...."
How come you don't have a kindle edition of your book Erica?
Erin wrote: "I think we should put out a call to World Writing and Wealth. They have several authors but no dedicated events of their own. Thoughts?"Good idea. They have to become members though. :D
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http://navigatingindieworld.com/book-..."
Aww...Thanks Alexis! I am loving looking at all..."
I was worried about reports that picture books don't always format correctly on Kindle and inconsistencies across devices. Words sometimes become separated from pictures or the pages become misaligned and suddenly you have two pages that should be side by side and aren't. I also know sales for kids picture books are minimal for electronic versions. I am currently researching my options though because I know some people like to get an electronic version first before buying print versions.
Erica wrote: "I agree with keeping the number of books down to one per genre. If someone is interested in your book, they will be able to find your other books when they click it. I see what Carole is saying too..."I agree.
Thanks Alex!Updated event page: http://navigatingindieworld.com/portf...
I've decided to keep the Pexels images (you can't beat free) but I edited their colors so that the images match a bit. The sci fi one is photoshopped and is so cool, if I may say so myself. :D
I'm excited!
Ok, so I write in two completely opposite genres am I only adding my romantic suspense and not my YA Dystopian? Also are we adding all of our stalker links to the book pages?
Ember wrote: "Ok, so I write in two completely opposite genres am I only adding my romantic suspense and not my YA Dystopian? Also are we adding all of our stalker links to the book pages?"You may add two books as long as they are different genres, so you can add your YA Dystopian as welll. And I will add any info/links that you want to your author page.
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It looks EVEN better! Wow! Fantastic job Alexis. I am itching to share this on my fb page when it is ready. :) I really like the separate genres. They help organize the content and, when we get more authors, it will keep the list from being too overwhelming.
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Alexis- we have to set up the rafflecopter.
Also, do you think we should have a guest post or article, some blurb explaining something about us- what makes us as special as we are??
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Carole wrote: "Come on- we need more people- everybody tell your friends about it. Alexis- we have to set up the rafflecopter.
Also, do you think we should have a guest post or article, some blurb explaining s..."
Yes the about page. I think you should write it!
I've been thinking guys..I think we should make it two books per person regardless of genre.
Otherwise it would seem like some authors get an extra chance just because they happen to write more than one genre.
I think it should be either 2 per person or just 1 book for everyone.
What do you guys think?
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Funny story- his descendant actually worked for me. His name was Dumas too. I can't think of his first name- I will probably at 2 in the morning. He was a lovely man and one day I said any relation to you know, the writer? thinking he would say no. He said, yes actually and told me some of the family history. He was a musician for CBS television.
Carole, I think that there's a way that you can send one DM to all members of this group. You can use that to tell them about our event. I always get standard DMs like that from the mods of other groups,
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