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dili's review
5.0
Superb guide.
As complete a guide to starting out an author journey as I've ever found. Highly recommend it if you're considering this path.
As complete a guide to starting out an author journey as I've ever found. Highly recommend it if you're considering this path.
kayleewrites's review
5.0
Great book for indies
If you're just getting started, this book gives you a good overview of the concepts you'll need to learn quickly in the self publishing world. Even if you're not new, this helps get you in the right mindset to do your best work and work hard on the right things.
If you're just getting started, this book gives you a good overview of the concepts you'll need to learn quickly in the self publishing world. Even if you're not new, this helps get you in the right mindset to do your best work and work hard on the right things.
gemmahenrynovels's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
taaya's review against another edition
2.0
This book was not at all what I had expected. It felt more like advertisement, both for the works of the author (showing his covers and speaking about his series again and again) and for other authors (whenever the book hit a point where actual information could have come, there was just a ‚read the book of my friend here‘).
Some of the stuff in the book might be useful for authors in the US, that I can’t tell. But in my country people still think an author who writes more than two books a year does not write quality anymore, so they stop buying him or her. (To be honest, we had a lot of experience with such authors, especially big names, who just wrote the same story again and again just with different names and places.)
Also in my country editing costs minimum 5€ per page (and correctors, the guys who find your typos, at least 3€ per page). So I don’t know how the editors in the US make a living with the 50-150$ per book that are calculated here, but this calculation just doesn’t fit for people outside the US. Here we calculate the book with 3000€ just for paid services like cover. So that is the real problem I had hoped this book would solve. Finding tips on how to get started if you are unemployed (in my case due to disabilities) and just can’t afford to work as an author without tricks. Because credits? Starting a company-bonus? Not given to authors.
And over here we actually try to boycott those people who openly advertise. Also giving freebies only for subscribers is illegal here.
So almost none of the advice is suitable for people outside the US. (Which doesn’t mean this book is bad for those who ARE in the US. That I just can’t tell.)
One star added for the motivation some pages spark in the reader. But apart from that this book unfortunately isn’t helpful for people in Germany, maybe not even the rest of Europe.
Some of the stuff in the book might be useful for authors in the US, that I can’t tell. But in my country people still think an author who writes more than two books a year does not write quality anymore, so they stop buying him or her. (To be honest, we had a lot of experience with such authors, especially big names, who just wrote the same story again and again just with different names and places.)
Also in my country editing costs minimum 5€ per page (and correctors, the guys who find your typos, at least 3€ per page). So I don’t know how the editors in the US make a living with the 50-150$ per book that are calculated here, but this calculation just doesn’t fit for people outside the US. Here we calculate the book with 3000€ just for paid services like cover. So that is the real problem I had hoped this book would solve. Finding tips on how to get started if you are unemployed (in my case due to disabilities) and just can’t afford to work as an author without tricks. Because credits? Starting a company-bonus? Not given to authors.
And over here we actually try to boycott those people who openly advertise. Also giving freebies only for subscribers is illegal here.
So almost none of the advice is suitable for people outside the US. (Which doesn’t mean this book is bad for those who ARE in the US. That I just can’t tell.)
One star added for the motivation some pages spark in the reader. But apart from that this book unfortunately isn’t helpful for people in Germany, maybe not even the rest of Europe.
dragonheartbookworm's review
4.0
So Informative
Very thorough in how to get started and become an indie author! Will definitely be reading as I continue the journey toward self-publishing my first book!!!
Very thorough in how to get started and become an indie author! Will definitely be reading as I continue the journey toward self-publishing my first book!!!
wrathofpluto's review against another edition
4.0
Good for beginners
This book has a lot of good information for people who know absolutely nothing about self-publishing. If you already have some knowledge about it, however, you might find it too basic.
This book has a lot of good information for people who know absolutely nothing about self-publishing. If you already have some knowledge about it, however, you might find it too basic.
earlgaytea711's review against another edition
I'm in the 20booksto50k group that the author talks about and that's actually how I heard about this book. But everything in it is a rehash of the advice posts on the Facebook group. Also, the explanations are too bare bones to really be useful for me after being in the group for almost a year. It was more frustrating then helpful so I have to DNF.
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