Happy Sunday, WG2E-Land!
We haven’t ask this question for awhile, so here it goes:
What Would You Like to Know About Indie Epublishing from The WG2E Team?
Here at The WG2E, we treat you to a one-stop destination site for all-things Indie Epublishing, no matter where you are in the process!
We’ve got great scoop for Beginners (i.e. pre-published writers) as well as terrific tips for those of you already started on your Indie Epub Journeys. And for those of you who’ve been there and done that, we’ve got advanced techniques and tools too, complete with all our Real Sales Numbers that we luuuvvv sharin’ with you to help you make your own well-informed Indie Epublishing Decisions.
Every so often, though, we like to check-in with all of you and see what kinds of topics y’all need more information on.
So, It’s Your Turn, WG2E-Land Peeps: What Would You Like to Know About Indie Epublishing from The WG2E Team?
The Best of WG2E Indie Epublishing Wishes — D. D. Scott
P.S. Also, it might be very helpful to all our brand new WG2E-Land Peeps if you would link to your fave WG2E posts too and let us know how you’ve used these posts to further your Indie Epublishing Careers.
P.S.S. And if any of you have ideas for posts you’d like to do as a Guest Blogger for WG2E, let us know below! We’re always looking for wonderful new WG2E Contributors!!! 
My fave post from you, DD, is the paying it forward for readers one, where you said you put your first book as free. I did this for my first Angel ebook after reading this, and got so many more downloads from this way. Maybe not everyone who downloaded will read it, but for me, it is much more people who have read my work than any other work I have done before.
I would like to know who other indie authors have got so many readers and have made a following, as this is what I plan to do for all of mine.
I would love to guest blog here, perhaps about my journey or what I have learnt along the way from others.
You need regular articles from somebody like April Hamilton or Aaron Shepard. We need to know about the latest issues in the technical arena. Supported file formats, image sizes, and so forth and so on. For example, what have you told us about Amazon’s new format, Kindle 8?
i’ve linked to wg2e & rg2e on one of my recent posts (part of a series) about my new romance novella, “the old american artist, a love story”
http://yoga-adan.com/2012/07/06/im-a-what-kind-of-writer-romance-part-5/
i was trying to, in my commentary with my writing sample, point to resources i’ve felt have been helpful for me
thanks so much
Maybe a discussion on the pros and cons of different conversion software?
I’d volunteer to do a guest blog post on a few common mistakes a new writer should avoid when they’re starting out. (I’ve made more than a few.) Some of these mistakes can sink your chances of being discovered on sites like Amazon and some can be downright embarrassing.
I’d be interested in reading this, Doug
Yesterday I linked to Gemma’s post about The Myths of Traditional Publishing.
http://thewritersguidetoepublishing.com/myths-about-traditional-publishing
That kind of information is so important when trying to make a decision about which way to go when considering traditional verses Indie.
My single most favorite part of this blog is the optimism.
I’d like a post of recommended editors, proofreaders, and cover artists and how writers should go about choosing the correct fit for their style.
Well, my first book releases with a small press in November, and then I’ll be going indie. Right now, I’d really like to know more about finding my target audience, and then expanding from them. And, there seems to be two different camps in the promo dept: free giveaways and no free giveaways. Some believe the giveaways only attract the freebie searchers and not real readers. I’d like to do more than just free, and I’ve thought about a raffle with various usable things rather than just a gift card, but it’s hard to know which is the right direction. Would love any thoughts!
I absolutely LOVE hearing the success stories. Here’s one of my favorites:
http://thewritersguidetoepublishing.com/gemma-halliday-sells-her-1-millionth-self-published-ebook
Every time I hear an author telling her story on the WG2E, I am greatly encouraged. Please keep ‘em coming! Fantastic work on the WG2E, D.D.
I would love to read about tried and tested methods of reaching readers, which are acheivable by indie authors with other commitments – i.e. kids, jobs, (lives) etc. How much time should we spend on Twitter, really, and is this the absolute best use of our time?
A lot of the advice I read about book marketing – press releases, blogging, forums and the like – works best for non-fiction books where there is a topic from which the author can develop an expert platform. What about fiction? How do we realistically market our books, and ourselves, and still find time to write the next book, and the next, and so on.
Looking forward to more great posts, Jo x
I agree with Joanne. Marketing and promotion for fiction only seems to be a small percentage of the information out there.
Also simple, clear info on setting up a Facebook Fan Page.
I love the balance of business info with inspiring real life stories that WG2E always has. I suppose I would just vote for more of the same.
I’d like to hear more from Tamara about Goodreads. Maybe a sort of Goodreads Guide for Dummies because I find navigating more miss than hit.
Christine
I’d second CC’s idea. Would love to hear the Goodreads ideas.
@cc Mckenzie. Ditto re Goodreads. I know I’m on there somewhere, but its like navigating Facebook. I get lost, and up in some beer hall in Munich!
As always, Kudos to the WG2E team -always consistently informative and helpful. So can you please recommend the best book or blog (yours I hope) for instructions on converting and formatting a ms. into a file for ebooks? I’m tired of hiring professionals, its getting pricey. Ditto, book covers!
Wishing you all success and happiness! alohas from Hawaii!
Kiana Davenport, THE SPY LOVER, due out in August.
Look up Guido Henkel. That’s where I learned to code into HTML. He makes it so easy! I’d also be happy to do a series of blogs here giving detailed directions. I try to do this freelance. – I’ve had one customer so far, LOL!
This site has been a wonderful go-to place. Most recently for me was the post on Audio Books was the most helpful. NEwbies can click on you archives to find all sorts of great stuff!
Happy Sunday afternoon WG2E team! I would like you to take me from scratch through the Indie publishing process. All my written work exist as word docs. on my computer, and I am anxious to get my work out there. I came from church ,turned my computer on and saw an answer to my prayer: your post asking what help people like myself need…TRIPLE THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!
H. Teddy Crawford
I really appreciate the transparency…the details on what works, what didn’t, and the real numbers–so helpful! Thanks for sharing!
LOVE this site! It has been very encouraging as I’m just starting out.
I am a little confused about how to launch a book. I keep seeing tweets about blog tours and other big promotions for Indie authors. How do even begin to set up something like that and is it really worth the work to do so? I don’t even know where to begin.
Also, there are lots of people advertising themselves as “social marketing managers” to Indie authors. I would love to hear from someone about how these people work, why we should use them/avoid them, what they are worth, etc.
I just stumbled across WG2E today and I’m already in love and have saved to Faves. Thanks!
After completing my third novel, I’m now ready to go Indie. I held off until I had three written because of advice to wait until I had several to offer to maximize sales potential. I’m reading my way thru internet Epub how-to’s but so far haven’t come across an ‘in a nutshell’ overview of the various Epub ‘stores’.
I’d love to see a summary of the sites (top 3-5) that I can post Ebooks to, along with the following data:
Cost to post a book
Required format (just basics)
Price point royalties
Any site quirks/restrictions a new user needs to be aware of
I would also love to hear about the PAYMENT side of the Indie Ebook world – frequency of payments, how’s that ETF working for you, is it hard to figure out the data on the royalty statements, do the sites provide you the ability to vet the royalty statement, and anything else worth knowing on this slant so I can get a feel for what to expect after busting tail to get my Indie life going.
I’d be interested in hearing some first hand accounts or opinions of the Indie Pub houses like Lulu, Creatspace, Lightening source or Smashwords etc. I have a short children’s story which, when illustrated, I’d like to indiepub. I’ve been thinking primarily of Lulu but wonder if perhaps some other would be better.
“Gusty”