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    Indie World
    Indie World
    Indie World
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    Indie World

    By Mario Garrido Espinosa

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    The Independent writers on " Indie World", they start their journey, diving with such ilusion, in an unknown world. This fact makes that many mistakes can be made, time can be lost, and also (money) and after a lot of effort, sales won't be achieved, does are also deserved.

    The purpose of this book is that " Indie World" won't be so unknown for all those, that want to enter it, at a certain time and obtain results. All of that, without losing a sense of humor.

    In this handbook all the situations are numbered in which an Indie Author steps in, and each of them are explained; if they have to be avoid or if you need to pay attention to them. All the topics that surround all this " little world" are exposed in a funny and practical way; so the author can take advantage of all that can be learnt in this book, remembering it with a smile. All the information, is based on the Author's personal experience as a self-published author. Finally, some points and tricks are explained on how to win visibility and one of the basic strategies, that you can follow to try and sell an Indie Book.

    Content Index:

    - Tomorrow I buy the book no doubt.

    -Social Media and other useless publicity!

    -The mysterious rankings on Amazon.

    -The " aware-ones" and their infinite and infallible, know it all.

    -The behavior of those editorials.

    -Presentations, gatherings with writers, fairs and other hobbies.

    -Operationals to get to the Top-100 on Amazon.

    -Comments good, bad and useful.

    -The miracle of publicity on Amazon.

    -And when will you write a second book?

    -But then, what is the method to follow so I can sell my book?

    All the explanations  from each chapter are nice and concluding, in this volumen, you will find all the complete collection of the " Crazy Adventures of the Ignored Lopez", through out the life of this Indie Comic Author, we will review with a smile, the different aspects of life, for these type of writers with also joys and miseries. If you are an independant author with some experience, for sure you will laugh with the comics and you probably will see yourself on the " crazy adventures", and if you are new in this " new little world". In the future you will remember with half a smile some of these comics...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBadPress
    Release dateMar 1, 2020
    ISBN9781071535394
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      Indie World - Mario Garrido Espinosa

      Dedicated to:

      My Parents and brother.

      To Fabio and Gervasio, coworkers, that put up stoically the droll theme that every indie Author has and that, nonetheless they were excited about this project and they provided good ideas for The Ignored Invisible Lopez.

      Prologue

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      If you are a novel writer and you are beginning ( or not for long time) in the mettle world of self-publishing, this book will help you know from first-hand what will you find and be able to choose in what you can occupy your time and money when you want to try that your book be known. Throughout the chapters I will tell you my experiences to get my books ahead and, most of all, what actions have been a waste of time ( and so, according to what cases, the money) and it is in my opinion can only ( and I emphasize I can in this book smoke is not sold) take you to accomplish your goal which is to sell books.

      When you finish reading this Manual, you will know what will you find and you will be capable of deciding if the paths proposed here are facts for your objectives or if you prefer to center in developing operational that, knowing what you will find, you forecast what might work in your case. But at the end, if you want your writings  Pero al final, to be known, you will have to adapt an strategy and put it in practice. And so, trying not to depend to much in luck or casualty, be able to opt to achieve your dream of living of what you love most: writing.

      Look, indie friend author, that I don´t use the gamy expressions that you will get to know from all the pages and books that swarm in the Internet, where secrets and operations are told what can we do to have success with a book ( this hopeful expression, succeed with your book, is one of them). In this small manual we will place our feet down to earth although you will see that you can´t give up in any moment to the irony and the sarcasm ( it´s more, I hope this book, apart from a manual for indie authors can be considered also a humor book) we will never place blank and liar of this type: The best road to success, "the x steps to succeed with your book, like selling eBooks in Amazon , write a best seller in two days and place it forever in the Amazon TOP-100, the infallible method to sell eBooks works " (I confess that the last statements I hadn´t read them before, at least literally in those terms, but forcefully summarizes almost all, etc. Of these expressions the internet is full, but the actions that hide behind ( that always behind the promise exists the promised explanation, thing that not always happens) rarely they work in an appreciable percentage, that we can estimate, yes, they helped maybe a few, but for sure there was something more that gave them that needed push to succeed; or it was only a matter of luck... Although yes, luck, there´s no other choice, we have to look for it.

      In this book, therefore, you are going to soak of everything that awaits you in this little indie world and according to my experience, of what you can do so your book can be read ( and, so, bought); and I insist that the verb can, because this, as you see, it´s not an exact science. Even if we shouldn´t because of that  stop trying.

      You don´t have to fill out all the requirements to read this book, note even to be an author indie, but let´s be clear before starting that even if this is a kind of manual about self-publishing, we won´t talk in any case  of the technical part related to discipline ( that of self-publishing), matter on which we can find tons of information on the internet: that if the cover of the book is important, that if the book has to be perfectly patterned and without typos, that how do we use the Amazon tools to publish a book with effectiveness, that if you dedicate a lot of time  

      thinking about key words to find, that if SEO, that if the author´s page, that if the blog, that if networking, that if the advertisements in social networks, that if you create your subscribers, that if you place your book for free somedays, that if you contact bloggers, what if you do bridge pine with double somersault... None of these arts, that how much they strive to advertise like infallible by social networks, they are the reason for this book. As I say, in internet there are millions of pages and books that explain all that  (well, maybe some less) and that philosophize about all the invented operations made by men to make more attractive the book for the reader —or more visible— and so to sell millions of books. And, also, they always indicate that they don´t fail, what in long term troubles the indie author that has wasted time (a lot) and money (I hope a little) in executing them. This, therefore, we should had surpassed it; I mean the fact that in the jungle of millions of books self-published, that besides doesn´t stop growing, all those techniques work a ridiculous percentage of times and I would say always accompanied of a huge ration of luck or casualty ( and maybe other things that are not said to us). What does not mean that they have to be completely useful, this is, an attractive cover, it will always be better than a blank page with a title in the middle, a nice blog well done that won´t hurt you, some right key words, with no doubt will help you gain visibility... but from there and that with all these things you sell books yes or yes, a world goes.

      But let´s not wander about themes that, as I had said, they are not motives for this book; simply, to start to learn with this manual,  we should had published a book in some platform or to

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