Congratulations! You’ve completed your novel, now what? We all strive for the last sentence, but in self-publishing that is not the end. This week we discuss the next steps with Crissy Moss. As luck would have it, Crissy recently completed her second novel and she will share her process on getting the story shipped.
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TWOSIES!
Thirdddd!
Aaaaaand we have countdown!
Have I turned up too early for a change? o.O
MrJohnRead Aliens…
Greetings, humans. And others….
Hello peeps!!
Hi everyone
Anyone drinking tonight?
writerwade HAHAHAHAHAH
writerwade too early
crissymoss ohai!
xgranville it’s time to start planning your xmas story. You gonna get it done this year?
BatmanErica xgranville Ooh thanks for the reminder. I still have beats from the one I attempted last year!
writerwade I have a mini rum waiting on me for when the show starts. I get one airline-sized drink and then it’s no mas for me!
michelleread writerwade I’m having a hot toddy cause everyone else was drinking too.
crissymoss michelleread writerwade There ya go! *Cheers!*
xgranville I can’t even remember what I was going to do last…wait, just remembered 😛 Might work for me too 😀
Where’s Carl? Gotta tell him I had lolly cake yesterday and last weekend 😛
Has it started?
BatmanErica Yarp
BatmanErica Yes. Try refreshing.
How did I miss the intro? I had it open and ready in another tab…
BatmanErica cause goole is an ass sometimes.
Man revisions suck. I just got done revising a book I’m putting out next week and about to have to start on the 2nd draft of another.
BatmanErica I scared him away 😉
crissymoss BatmanErica You classed up the place.
crissymoss you must be uber scary 😛
BatmanErica crissymoss Yep yep. Ask my kids 😉
Random update on my standing desk. The anti-fatigue mat arrived the other day. Sooooo gooooood 😀
I won’t be here long but figure I should leave a serious comment.
ZachBohannon Dislike on both of your points.
ZachBohannon HA, I love revisions-for me, that’s when the story really starts to gel. (I know. I’m a dork.)
I hope everyone’s week is going well….I’m going to put this on in the background now. I love you all! Have a great night.
CateMorgan ZachBohannon Dork! And here’s some tea for you this time.
CateMorgan ZachBohannon Some people love them. I’m sure you’d easily find a collaborator for a novel if you haven’t done it, haha.
Use recycled paper or paper from sustained forests
writerwade I just started printing mine on this last novel and even though I wasted a tank and a half of black ink, it was one of the best things I’ve done. To each his/her own.
Tech a class on that Mat? I need to know how to do that.
ZachBohannon writerwade I agree with Zach. I love doing it.
ReneeKelley Which part?
I color code my toys…
ReneeKelley put it on Author Strong! the PDF markup stuffs
writerwade And doing a Kindle read through is one of the best things ever… I go through there near the end and use the “notes” feature (which is tedious) to make notes.
JJ OZZY (AKA JAY) your sex toys?
BatmanErica JJ OZZY (AKA JAY) shhhhh
Thats a good tip Crissy.
Change the font and size.
JJ OZZY (AKA JAY) are you anywhere near Portland? 😛
BatmanErica JJ OZZY (AKA JAY) Texas is all that exists
Cutting and pasting my editors edits in Word back into my Scrivener file is by far my least favorite part of completing a book. Did it last night and was miserable.
ZachBohannon writerwade I always print out my manuscripts for the first round of editing. Find I catch a lot more stuff that way.
ZachBohannon you don’t simply import the file in Scrivener as a whole?
PerryConstantine ZachBohannon writerwade I agree. I loved it.
ZachBohannon Yeah, just drag & drop the whole file. It’ll flag the comments as comments.
ZachBohannon I have two full novellas worth of edits and highlights to prove it works… LOL!
I missed the intro, why isn’t michelleread on?
BatmanErica michelleread I stuffed her in a box.
BatmanErica michelleread More importantly… why isn’t John Read here?
matmorrisauthor BatmanErica michelleread He was… JOHN!?!
matmorrisauthor he was earlier…
matmorrisauthor BatmanErica michelleread *sitting on a oddly moving box* I have no idea..
matmorrisauthor BatmanErica michelleread Here
ChrishaunKellerHanna ZachBohannon Maybe we are talking about something different or I’m missing a trick. I review all my editors work in Word and get it ready to put back into Scrivener, BUT I don’t see how you’d just import it back in since I have so many individual scenes. Wouldn’t it import it as one long file? Does it make sense what I’m asking?
ChrishaunKellerHanna seems like you’re sitting on one of JJ OZZY (AKA JAY)’s sex toys…
matmorrisauthor BatmanErica michelleread Terribly slow interwebs…
ZachBohannon ChrishaunKellerHanna Have you tried Import and Split?
MrJohnRead matmorrisauthor BatmanErica michelleread MY NIGHT IS COMPLETE-ISH!
PerryConstantine ZachBohannon ChrishaunKellerHanna Sounds like I’m missing a trick that might save me a lot of time…
matmorrisauthor ZachBohannon another Author Strong tutorial 🙂
PerryConstantine ZachBohannon ChrishaunKellerHanna
Awww c’mon guys. I’m going to link every show where my camera was on! No one cares – this is a made up thing. Searching for my cover, hold please.
ChrishaunKellerHanna PerryConstantine ZachBohannon Yeah, select Import and Split and then you can specify what to separate sections by. So if you have a scene break character, like asterisks or something, you can tell Scrivener to separate by those asterisks.
BatmanErica ChrishaunKellerHanna JJ OZZY (AKA JAY) -_- maybe…. [tee hee]
PerryConstantine ChrishaunKellerHanna ZachBohannon Fuck me. How did I miss this?
matmorrisauthor BatmanErica michelleread It’s small in here. Can you fan me with the pirate hat, please?
michelleread you can’t hide from us
ZachBohannon PerryConstantine ChrishaunKellerHanna Don’t feel bad, dude… Scrivener is feature- RICH… there are tonnes of things it can do!
JJ OZZY (AKA JAY) michelleread I heard my name so I got back into this window. I’m hiding in plain sight!
PerryConstantine ChrishaunKellerHanna ZachBohannon I’ll have to mess with this. WIll it replace the files in Scrivener that you already have in there or do I have to delete those?
ZachBohannon PerryConstantine ChrishaunKellerHanna You’ll have to trash the old ones
Do any of you guys have ARC teams or regular places you submit for reviews?
BatmanErica My mom and grandma
BatmanErica I have an ARC team of 15 people. It’s a private Facebook page and community and it’s a lot of fun.
If you set up your book for pre-order then you can start doing early promo and using the url for the pre-order page for the ads 🙂
BatmanErica There are other ways to handle the same thing. But yes.
Xavier check your messages and texts…
BatmanErica I know a slew of readers and I recruit from them…
michelleread I have no texts….
JJ OZZY (AKA JAY) michelleread Hold please….
I use Goodreads too
michelleread Hi Michelle
writerwade michelleread Hi Boss 🙂
Goodreads. Nowhere will you find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Better late than never. Here’s my pretty cover.
michelleread Random….
michelleread Purty.
michelleread so pretty!
PatrickSzabo or more accurately, a more concentrated glut of failed MFA’s …
matmorrisauthor michelleread They SPECIFICALLY asked, fake Michelle. Real Michelle would have remembered.
ChrishaunKellerHanna PatrickSzabo Potato, potahto
michelleread matmorrisauthor I’m paying attention as much as real Michelle.
PatrickSzabo ChrishaunKellerHanna indeed…
ChrishaunKellerHanna michelleread Thanks! Xavier does good work 🙂 I’ve had a couple of readers (and myself) say they want them made into a poster.
PatrickSzabo michelleread Thanks!
matmorrisauthor michelleread But you’re not giggling. RChazzChute would like it if you giggle.
michelleread matmorrisauthor RChazzChute I just had a michelle freakout on side camera.
I’ll be completely honest, I don’t leave reviews for indies. Not because I don’t like indies (duh) but I don’t want Amazon to have any questions about wether I know them or not.
michelleread ChrishaunKellerHanna Granville?
michelleread IT’S SO PRETTY.
matmorrisauthor michelleread RChazzChute THERE you go!
ChrishaunKellerHanna michelleread Hiya!
ChrishaunKellerHanna michelleread Yep
xgranville ChrishaunKellerHanna michelleread Hey you! Lovely work!
Incoming
Aaaaaaaaand
PatrickSzabo Yeah it’s a sad state
michelleread The trifecta
She’s so pretty. I love this one.
michelleread ::swoon::
I’m not a big fan of KBoards but TK put up a great guide to publishing to Google Play.
Indeed. Okay off I go again. Byeeeee!!!
http://www.kboards.com/index.php/topic,167655.0.html
Right?!
Apple has an affiliate program.
PatrickSzabo So does B&N if you want to fact check me.
PatrickSzabo Doesn’t make them worth while, unfortunately.
That’s what I don’t like about Kobo. Making friends? Awful.
matmorrisauthor PatrickSzabo Not fact checking, just commenting.
RChazzChute ….annnnnnd welcome, Chazz ::hugs::
Regarding D2D and international sellers, what is the inputting of tax info like?
I’ll bash, Wade. Smashwords sucks and the owner’s Amazon rants get annoying.
What’s the key to getting things up on Apple when you don’t have a Mac? It seems like they have a lot of rules before you’re able to upload there. (No outside links, etc…)
Not a fan of Bookbaby. It costs a lot of money to make alterations. They also told me I’d lose all my reviews if I left them (which is not true.) I also just closed what was left of my Smashwords account because of the slowness and it’s not a destination site, anyway.Just used D2D today. They’re really fast.
CateMorgan Draft2digital
PatrickSzabo Smashwords is so awful. I go direct to almost everywhere and use D2D for everything I don’t.
Crissy, here’s a post at KBoards about Google Play. It’s REALLY great.
http://www.kboards.com/index.php/topic,167655.0.html
Mat’s right, going direct is actually pretty simple. I have a Mac so I can go direct to Apple and I find iTunes Producer to be pretty easy to use. Kobo’s real easy as well. Google Play is a pain in the ass. B&N is the only big site I can’t go direct to because of country restrictions, so I use D2D for that and everything else.
PerryConstantine And B&N is run by monkeys.
Oh and also, if you use permafree, you can’t make your books free through Nookpress. You can only make them free if you use an aggregator.
PerryConstantine I *definitely* recommend D2D for all permafree
Hey. I posted liked umpteen comments but I was off line….lol. Duh
PatrickSzabo I got dinged there, too.
Hello everyone!
ReneeKelley Wut^, yo?
Great tip, Crissy and Mat
Sometimes it’s cheaper to buy your book from the book depository, than through createspace.
ReneeKelley About what? I haven’t said anything for a while 😛
Mat, I was offline justing posting my butt…lol
I meant like do they have a tax interview system like Amazon does 😛
I forgot now, dang it.
CateMorgan PatrickSzabo Because of Content?
The border used to be worse. They still charge too much, but the delay isn’t as bad as it used to be. Shipments from CreateSpace come much faster now.
BatmanErica Thanks for that tip, I’ll look into that. Right now, CreateSpace charges me double what the books cost to ship them.
RChazzChute Yes, I will never complain about their speed. Damn they fast.
I know what it was. Getting reviews. I use GoodReads also
PatrickSzabo For unapproved links–even though ALL my links go right to landing pages on my website.
CateMorgan PatrickSzabo Oh that. Yeah, Apple is goofy as some very goofy thing about that. I’ve heard if you contact them they’ll let them slide, but I haven’t done it.
matmorrisauthor did you say that you link to the actual book page for the available books and the newsletter for WIP’s?
ChrishaunKellerHanna matmorrisauthor Essentially, yes.
matmorrisauthor ChrishaunKellerHanna thanks… trying to do rewrites while listening and kinda failing at both…lol
ChrishaunKellerHanna matmorrisauthor We’ll stop talking soon.
Good point! X
matmorrisauthor ChrishaunKellerHanna but I’m learning so much…! I have a book coming out next month!
ChrishaunKellerHanna me, too!
PerryConstantine no worries. It’s amusing though seeing as Amazon own the Book Depository 😛
RChazzChute ChrishaunKellerHanna wait… don’t you have a book coming out every month? ::ducks::
I’m gonna have fun with my national tax at some point. Once you hit $60k a year income you have to be GST (goods and services tax) registered and pay 12.5% on whatever you sell. Seeing as I sell books overseas there is no GST on them and (as far as I know) my overseas income doesn’t count toward the $60k threshold for GST 😛
Who wants to come party?
…. and we’re done?
crissymoss OH OH OH CAN I JOIN?!??!
ChrishaunKellerHanna Haha yeah apparently. I guess I have that power!
ChrishaunKellerHanna RChazzChute Well, yeah, but I meant that I’m doing rewrites and listening at the same time and failing at both. 🙂
And yes. Four in four weeks. The key is benzedrine.
ChrishaunKellerHanna It’s me, I’m good with anticlimactic endings.
https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/hoaevent/AP36tYcaKgITl_D4SPaxrTSeudDmTXk4nduEHgFQOMMTcHZeqvVnBw
ChrishaunKellerHanna RChazzChute my author hero does. It’s either a 25k word novella (which she calls a short) or a 60k novel. One every month o.O
RChazzChute ChrishaunKellerHanna ahhhhh! you are a god!
BatmanErica ChrishaunKellerHanna RChazzChute My goal is to publish a 30K book a month, then increase to a 50K as I get faster.
Thanks all! Sorry for the quick ending but Xavier has the power.
writerwade I GOT THE POOOWER!
You know that work that I didn’t come to the show for? I finished it! Probably no one will even see this…but I did it. And I have a Snickers to eat in peace and quiet in the middle of the night now, thank you.
michelleread I see this. 🙂