Tag: #indieauthors

• Ugliness in The Publishing Industry

  Ugliness in the Publishing Industry   I’m angry. I’m furious. I’m at the end of my fucking rope. I’d like to say its about the BLM movement, and what’s happening in Australia and America is terrible. I’d like to say it’s the #Publishingpaidme tag and the disparagement between black authors and white authors is sickening.…

  E. J. Dawson

  June 7, 2020

  Social Media, Uncategorized

  #diversity, #indieauthor, #indieauthors, #indiebooks, #selfpub, #SelfPubIsHere, #selfpublish, #selfpublished, #selfpublishing, #writingcommunity, amwriting, indie, writing

• Seeking Self-Publishing? Stop Here First

  I started writing a seriously in 2014 and consequently, self-published called the Last Prophecy Series. My reason remains sound; it was a twenty-one novella and book fantasy steampunk series. Not exactly a trendy topic, succinct series, or the kind of project that would be over in a few years. But I was determined and it…

  E. J. Dawson

  May 30, 2020

  On Writing

  #authors, #indieauthors, #selfpub, #selfpublished, #selfpublishing, #write, #writers, #writingcommunity, goals, indie, writing

• Wolf at the Door

    I’m having a rant. Want to know why? Because people are being bullied. Being threatened. Being made to feel unwelcome and unwanted in the #WritingCommunity.   I wish this wasn’t the first time I’ve spoken about how I’ve seen or been guilted in the #WritingCommunity about what I do with my Twitter, Facebook and…

  E. J. Dawson

  January 31, 2020

  Social Media

  #authors, #blackmail, #book, #books, #bullied, #bullying, #community, #dreams, #ebook, #F4F, #followers, #indieauthors, #marketing, #Publishers, #reading, #selfpub, #SocialMedia, #Twitter, #writers, #writingcommunity, amwriting, indie, writing

• An Honest Review

  There is a battle on Twitter at the moment.   I first witnessed it from several readers who were attacked by Indie authors for leaving anything but a five-star review. Authors… attacking readers.   What kind of a fucked-up person do you have to be to attack your own consumers? One reader had given four…

  E. J. Dawson

  June 23, 2019

  Uncategorized

  #amreading, #authors, #books, #honesty, #indieauthor, #indieauthors, #indiebooks, #read, #readers, #reviews, #selfpub, #selfpublished, #selfpublishing, #writingcommunity, indie, writerslife, writing

• Beyond Beginners Marketing

  I was recently speaking to a friend about what else she could do beyond the basics of getting her marketing plan ready, and what it was to actually have one. There were things I knew, information I’d learned over the years that I’d kept to myself. Another Twitter user asked for some pointers, completely separate,…

  E. J. Dawson

  June 16, 2019

  Uncategorized

  #authors, #book, #books, #community, #ebook, #indieauthor, #indieauthors, #marketing, #reviews, #success, #writingcommunity, indie, writerslife, writing

• The Story & I

  Sixteen weeks ago I was curled against the wall sobbing that there was no point being a writer anymore. I had to stop working on the Last Prophecy series and I wasn’t sure I could keep doing this. I wasn’t just tired, I was well and truly beyond weary. Exhausted. Five years ago I met…

  E. J. Dawson

  May 11, 2019

  Uncategorized

  #authors, #book, #community, #creativity, #dreams, #indieauthors, #inspiration, #novel, #success, #writemotivation, #writingcommunity, storytelling, writing

• Book Marketing

  

  I am going to preface this by stating I don’t have all the answers.   There is a lot of information out there that doesn’t tell you certain things, like signing up with certain marketing companies doesn’t work unless you write their genre, or your book isn’t ready, or you write a series. And most…

  E. J. Dawson

  December 15, 2018

  Uncategorized

  #authors, #bookmarketing, #books, #ebook, #indieauthors, #marketing, #selfpub, #SelfPubIsHere, #selfpublished, #selfpublishing

• SelfPub at a Writers Expo? Where do I sign?

  No, really, its not an rhetorical question. It shouldn’t be a question. I’ve been on this journey for three years now, and I’m still asking myself that question. When I started my self pubbing journey I did it because there was a voice inside me that wasn’t just the woman who occasional wrote a bit,…

  E. J. Dawson

  May 11, 2018

  Uncategorized

  #Aussieauthor, #book, #cockygate, #indieauthor, #indieauthors, #selfpub, #SelfPubIsHere, #selfpublishing, #story, #storyteller, amwriting, author, indie, storytelling, writerslife, writing

• 15 Ways to Write More During Nanowrimo

  I’m crying. I’ve been crying all morning. Pronoun is shutting down and I have no idea what I’m going to do. I just launched the Well of Youth and its getting 4 and 5-star reviews. I just put a lot of money into advertising and reviewing to garner its attention. I took down my novella…

  E. J. Dawson

  November 7, 2017

  Uncategorized

  #author, #badtimes, #creativity, #darktimes, #fighting, #imagination, #indieauthor, #indieauthors, #nanowrimo, #nanowrimo2017, #pronoun, #selfdoubt, #selfpublished, #storyteller, #writingtips, writerslife, writing

• The Well of Youth is LIVE!!

  It didn’t dawn on me until I was sitting at the launch, the display out for everyone, that I felt like I could be excited! The local Mayor was coming to give a speech, my Dad flew down from the NSW coast unexpectedly, but I didn’t feel until that moment that I’d really done it.…

  E. J. Dawson

  October 18, 2017

  Uncategorized

  #accomplished, #accomplishment, #author, #book, #bookrelease #bookart, #breastcancerawareness, #chasing, #creativity, #dream, #dreams, #fantasy, #goodtimes, #imagination, #indieauthor, #indieauthors, #proud, #published, #selfpublished, #selfpublishing, #steampunk, #story, amwriting, goals, indie, writerslife, writing