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On the show today is Derek Murphy. Derek runs the site creativindie.com where he helps authors succeed as “a creative genius without becoming a starving artist”. This week we will focus on ways to sell more books, but we are already planning to have Derek back the following week because he has so much information to help authors. Join us live at 7 PST/10 EST.
30 mins til ignition.
Am…am I the first comment? O.O
Great Googely Moogely–I’m totally first! FIRRRRRRRRRRST.
Too bad no one’s here to appreciate it.
CateMorgan
xgranville
Hello Cate!
writerwade Hiya!
CateMorgan I appreciate it!
michelleread MI-CHEEEEELLLLLLE! Are you officially back? Areyouareyouareyou?
I no! I’m here again?
CateMorgan michelleread Yes ma’am : )
JamieDodge You are.
michelleread I was trying to hide from myself. I found me. Scared the wee out of me.
JamieDodge michelleread It seems like no matter where you go…THERE YOU ARE. o_O
CateMorgan JamieDodge michelleread You can’t run away from your own feet…
New drinking game for tonight: Guess at which point I disappear from the show. Son had strep throat today, and I’m waiting to see if I crash. Not feeling well, but I’m here dangit!
michelleread Here, haz some tea.
You are go for launch in 60 seconds.
CateMorgan michelleread THANK you, I actually am drinking a lot of tea just to be here tonight.
RChazzChute Are we??
RChazzChute Holy. Shit.
RChazzChute Make it so.
CateMorgan michelleread My cats run to my feet. Try to trip me all the time. Evil little things.
T MINUS 3 seconds.
JamieDodge CateMorgan michelleread Cats are super jerks sometimes.
This is Houston. Try jiggling the handle.
RChazzChute And 3….3….3….Aw, c’mon guys-lemme into the podcast! *bangs on monitor*
CateMorgan RChazzChute The thingybob was stuck.
CateMorgan RChazzChute It was the green button. We kept hitting the red one. Over. And over.
RChazzChute Robert is my favorite tonight.
xgranville CateMorgan RChazzChute I think you just nuked Quebec. Or Nova Scotia. Hard to tell.
CateMorgan xgranville RChazzChute Nooo! Not Robert’s hometown!
CateMorgan xgranville RChazzChute It was Calgary. Um… oops?
CateMorgan xgranville RChazzChute Yeah. I’m from Nova Scotia. It’ll take a few days for someone to notice. They still may not mention it to anyone, though.
G’morning. This man’s trying to sell mermaids…I’d like to know how 😀
DemelzaCarlton HUH-WHAAA?!
xgranville DemelzaCarlton That’s what I said…hence I’m here. Seriously. He’s running a “save the mermaids” campaign to sell them!
DemelzaCarlton Demelza!!
RChazzChute I’m in Houston…
HI.
matmorrisauthor Gutentag!
Hello everyone
David Anson Evening David : ) How are you?? I’ve missed everyone.
David Anson Hola!
Dino erotica!?
michelleread David Anson We’ve missed you too! I’m well. What have you been up to?
JamieDodge Amazon is a dirty, dirty place.
matmorrisauthor Hiya. Seen any good Season Four’s lately?
xgranville David Anson Xavier!!!
David Anson michelleread Sick kids, lack of internet, etc. I’d call it life, but life has been a dick lately. So I’ll say stuff.
David Anson hello David
michelleread David Anson Variety is the spice of stuff.
matmorrisauthor Hi Mat
michelleread David Anson We must have the same internet company. Mine has been complete crap lately too.
I’m uploading episodes, so only half-paying attention. It’s probably for the best.
David Anson michelleread Lame. Also, cheers. I’m borrowing John’s internet tonight.
matmorrisauthor Shameless plug for the win. Not a plug for your show, but a plug for being an adult at night.
michelleread matmorrisauthor An adult plug?
Never fear, BatmanErica is here!
xgranville michelleread matmorrisauthor Amazon is a dirty place, as you just said.
xgranville michelleread matmorrisauthor Oh my.
BatmanErica Ohai!
xgranville you can get adult plug on Amazon too 😛
michelleread what up?
BatmanErica Hi Erica
BatmanErica michelleread I thought about you lately because I adopted two time share cats!
michelleread awesome! What do they look like and are like?
I don’t like getting spam emails from authors.
BatmanErica I only send out heartfelt professions of love.
BatmanErica I haven’t figured out how to do a stupid newsletter, bo no fear of that from me.
RChazzChute BatmanErica love professions are where it’s at
RChazzChute I better sign up to your newsletter then 😛
BatmanErica RChazzChute “What’s your profession?” … “Love, baby. Just love.”
BatmanErica xgranville The turn things take.
JamieDodge mailchimp makes it easier. Sign up to that if you haven’t already and look through there.
JamieDodge that’s kind of common here :p
BatmanErica I have signed up for it. My eyes glaze over when I am trying to read it though.
BatmanErica RChazzChute Just skip over the daily bulletins about anal fissures and whatnot.
JamieDodge hmm… maybe matmorrisauthor could make a video tutorial to help 🙂
RChazzChute you send daily bulletins about your anal fissures?
BatmanErica I knew michelleread was a pervert, but xgranville surprises me.
JamieDodge ( o ) ( o )
BatmanErica RChazzChute Not *my* anal fissures. I’m psycho, not weirdo!
BatmanErica michelleread One small one that’s super cute and kind of a butthead. But his cuteness overload makes up for it. And one black and white one that’s the softest cat I’ve ever been around! One is a hyper kitten and one is the most laid back cat ever.
BatmanErica JamieDodge You lie! Also, bewbs. Also, my computer doesn’t autocorrect “bewbs” anymore, it accepts it as a word, thanks to our conversations.
RChazzChute BatmanErica Just reported cases with testimonials and attached pictures. No big deal.
Questions for our guest??
michelleread BatmanErica JamieDodge I never lie.
writerwade What I already asked…how he’s pimping mermaids.
michelleread my timeshare cat is splayed over my legs at the moment. He’s mostly white with a bit of black and is extremely friendly but a little dim. But he’s a good friend 🙂
michelleread it is learning… only two steps away from being self aware and killing you in your sleep 😛
writerwade On his website…he’s telling people to save mermaids.
As a reader I don’t really give a shit about who the author is. I just look at the books.
http://www.thepassivevoice.com/09/2015/funny-author-bios/
He’s a phony.
Tucker Maxx reformed lately.
RChazzChute Gotta mature. I liked his interview with Johnny, Sean and Dave.
PatrickSzabo Who, me? :p
xgranville PatrickSzabo Yes, you.
And Tucker Maxx.
writerwade See? Told you! He wants to talk about mermaids!
michelleread during your time as a freelancer / ghostwriter, what is the length of some of your shorter fiction stories?
xgranville RChazzChute Check out his interview on the Rich Roll Podcast. He came off very well there. Thoughtful and actually quite nice.
RChazzChute Someone mentioned this to me a few months ago, I recognize his picture and his wikipedia page.
FB is spying on me >.<
BatmanErica FB spies on everyone. They are worse than the NSA.
JamieDodge BatmanErica True story.
JamieDodge the NSA wishes they were FB 😛
DemelzaCarlton so do you use FB ads?
BatmanErica JamieDodge I spy on Facebook.
Okay I made it to the halfway mark before my stomach started cursing at me. Going to take some Motrin and eat crackers!!
JamieDodge FB stalker
Some authors do seem to take on a derogatory persona or are very negative with their blog posts. I find that off-putting. I prefer to keep all my vitriol ingestion at family reunions.
michelleread are you ill?
PatrickSzabo xgranville Hi to you, too, Patrick.
RChazzChute is it really worth it to blog? I really cbf
BatmanErica michelleread Yes ma’am.
michelleread PatrickSzabo xgranville Hi, Michelle!
BatmanErica JamieDodge Only on xgranville . I’m waiting for his Dino Porn book.
michelleread poor baby 🙁
JamieDodge you might be waiting awhile. You can, however, write it yourself 😛 Release it under the name Gavier Xanville 😛
BatmanErica JamieDodge It would be BORING if I wrote it.
BatmanErica RChazzChute For most people I don’t really think it’s worth it to blog obsessively. I used to. I dumped that practice a while back. (There are exceptions, of course.)
michelleread Get better woman.
BatmanErica JamieDodge Jay Chastain said he’d write the porn version of Dino Noir. I say you slap him into getting that done if its what you really want haha.
The cover also has to depict the genre at a glance.
BatmanErica Your Face for selling Awesome.
matmorrisauthor I don’t understand what you mean, unless you mean I’m awesome 😛
BatmanErica matmorrisauthor Something along those lines, I’m pretty sure.
BatmanErica matmorrisauthor Don’t question it. Just nod and agree with all of the wisdom.
Word? What is this, the 50s??
PatrickSzabo HOW LONG HAVE I BEEN ASLEEP?!
xgranville PatrickSzabo Forever.
PatrickSzabo xgranville Shit. I went and Rip Van Winkled it, didn’t I?
xgranville PatrickSzabo Word adds sooooo much crap in behind the scenes that are a pain in the ass. I haven’t touched Word in five years.
xgranville alternate ending to Army of Darkness 😛
PatrickSzabo xgranville Word.
matmorrisauthor PatrickSzabo xgranville Scrivener fo’ life, yo!
PatrickSzabo my beta readers use Word.
BatmanErica PatrickSzabo Tell them there’s room here for them in the future!
BatmanErica PatrickSzabo So does my trad publisher and my indie editor.
In Mac Scrivener you have control over font size, spacing, kerning, ligature, etc.
I can do any kind of formatting I want in Scrivener. I formatted both my books into print and had the ability to adjust every small detail.
PatrickSzabo xgranville This is why I love Scrivener. If you export from Scrivener into Word, you end up with a clean file.
matmorrisauthor That’s what I’ve found, as well. It works for everything I need.
If the keywords are in the title, that get priority over if they are in the blurb or in the actual keywords
Don’t do any of the HTML stuff in authorcentral, though.
Any last minute questions for our guest, folks???
Dang I missed it!
FYI regarding reviews. This is the link you want to include in the back of your book for getting reviews: https://www.amazon.com/review/create-review?asin=B0056BLH2I <– replace the ASIN with the book you want reviewed.
Does your Amazon description and your back cover description have to be the same?
ReneeKelley Any questions? haha
readtracyreed No not necessarily. Though for most indies the Amazon description will be the first thing the buyer sees, long before they ever get the paperback.
I like Amanda!
xgranville readtracyreed thanks
xgranville ReneeKelley No. I’m at work having technical issues.
ReneeKelley xgranville Lame!
Thanks…great info.
readtracyreed They don’t have to. If I buy a print book off Amazon, nine times out of ten, I won’t bother reading the back cover when it arrives. Plus the more books you have out, the more hassle it is to update the back covers across all those books.
THAT WAS AWESOME!!! LOL
BatmanErica RChazzChute I get a fair amount of traffic to my blog, so I try to write about stuff that my target audience would be interested in. So I’ll do things like post reviews of books, movies, TV shows, etc. of things in my genre.
So… random people keep jumping into the after party…
xgranville where’s the party?
xgranville is there one? I can’t seem to find it
xgranville Was there a link posted?
PerryConstantine nope
BatmanErica PerryConstantine No, some dude is really trying to hack the conversation haha
Sorry the link became out there live?
writerwade out where? Not here. Link is still in the closet
xgranville first correct use of that word all episode
Xavier, are you’re interested in starting another hangout?
xgranville BatmanErica PerryConstantine Did you guys piss off Anonymous or China or something?
writerwade We can try haha
I believe the link got hacked.
xgranville writerwade Stop pressing the red button!
xgranville writerwade I think I’m calling it a night.
BatmanErica writerwade Afterparty link, please come outta the closettttt!
The real after party… https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/hoaevent/AP36tYdKhCebZso2wKiS8r8SqHrNsDSfRqS3myW4-KZMF0s98-v8ow
matmorrisauthor Thanks Mat. Talk to you all later.
PatrickSzabo Thanks so much Patrick. 😉
That’s interesting. Putting the review link in your book. Sweet!
Meeeee toooooo!