Fall for the Indie Book Challenge discussion
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***Welcome to the 2014 Challenge!
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This is AWESOME! Do you have a contemporary new adult? xo
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Yay! Love this! I will spread the word as well!
I'm an Indie author in the Mystery/Detective genre looking for reviews. Can that be added as well? thanks...
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Ask and you shall receive - updated!
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Welcome!!
Small and independent presses qualify, as well as self-pubbed authors. If it's not one of the big five - Hachette, HarperCollins, MacMillan, Penguin/Random House, or Simon and Schuster (or their subsidiaries) - it's fair game.
S. wrote: "R. wrote: "I'm an Indie author in the Mystery/Detective genre looking for reviews. Can that be added as well? thanks..."Ask and you shall receive - updated!"
Thank you very much..
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Hi Meg, I think we're sticking with full-length novels for this go-round.
I'm in. I read constantly, and frequently read indies. It's always a challenge to find god ones. Plus, I can always use some blog fodder. Goodlittlewitch kindly added my book already. I look forward to seeing what every one is reading.
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So glad to have you Meredith!
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But the challenge is only for novels... Or else it wouldn't be much of a challenge!
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We can add a genre for misc, just needs to be over 50k words.
Do you mind if I invite others through my blog to join?
S. wrote: "PLEASE!"Done. Here's a link. https://meredith-stoddard.squarespace...
Also, I didn't see a thread for historical fiction. Can that be added?
Did I see a hashtag in another thread? I can't find it now.#fallfortheIndieBookChallenge2014
I saw your post on Twitter and this is a fantastic idea! (Btw, I think that means your hashtag is working.)
I'm in, as a writer and as a reader.I'm advertising it all over facebook and twitters to get more readers. Good luck everyone!
Question: Where do we post our reviews? Shall we all have a thread each where to put our reviews links so that they can be counted?
Great idea! Now how do you decide what's small press? I've been meaning to do a 25 for 25 challenge, i.e. featuring 25 m/m and f/f authors. How small is small?
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S. wrote: "Linda - Monday morning, I'll open up a new folder for each person to start adding their reviews."Awesome! I might not add reviews directly on Monday as I'm beta reading at the moment, but I'll get started soon. ;)
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Awesome! I might not add reviews directly on Monday as I'm beta reading at the moment, ..."
Linda - You've got fifteen weeks to read and review. Take your time...
This is so awesome! My book doesn't quite fit since she's a little novella, but I'm still up for the challenge! Indie authors deserve some awesome reviews. :)
S. wrote: "Linda wrote: "S. wrote: "Linda - Monday morning, I'll open up a new folder for each person to start adding their reviews."Awesome! I might not add reviews directly on Monday as I'm beta reading a..."
I've got 44 books to read by the end of December and no worries, I'll get it done. ;)
This is exciting! I hope as many of you as possible are available on Nook, cause that's my machine of choice! (My phone got smashed, so Kindle is harder for me to access...sadface).Good luck to all!
This is fantastic. Thank you so much for doing this, and taking advantage of that megaphone. As an indie author, I was linked here by one of the people doing the reading challenge... so your efforts to get people to put the word out seem to be working.
This is great! However I am flummoxed about the categories and am wondering if it would help to have a "hybrid genre" group. Meanwhile, I am posting my speculative fantasy detective novel in the science fiction group...
This is great! I'm excited to be a part of the group!
This is awesome! Great idea and I am excited to read and review for 15 deserving indie authors. Hope to get some reviews myself along the way. -L.J. Scar
What's this all about?
Well, as an independent author in-between book releases, I realized that I had a big megaphone that I wasn't using, and I wanted to showcase some other talented independent authors. But a lot of the tools out there were impersonal, and the noise was so loud that it was hard to be heard.
So I thought, hey, why don't I host 15 authors on my blog during the fall? Which then turned into a big ol' challenge, Goodreads group...and so on.
Here's the gist:
From 1 September through 22 December, I will be hosting one Independent/Small Press/Self-Pubbed (heretofore called "Indie") per week on my blog. Guest posts, interviews, Goodreads reviews, the whole gambit.
"That's great and all, but where do I come in?" you say, worried that you joined this group for nothing.
To join this challenge, you are welcome to find 15 authors of your own and give them the red carpet treatment...or you can simply find indie authors listed in our Books discussion folder* and pledge to read and review 15 of them during the challenge.
For indie authors, the review is key to exposure - it's no longer enough to say, "This book exists." So the more folks read and review - the more exposure for our indie friends.
*As an indie author, my first reaction is to post my book promo whenever I see stuff like this. And post away, kids - we've created folders for each of you to help folks easily find your book info. Just make sure you put your stuff in the right place so you can get the exposure.