Jason is an author and the co-creator of the book advertising site Booksends. He started out in 2010 with the YA Fantasy “Powerless” series before following that up with the Paranormal Romance series “Inevitable.” After that, he moved over to YA Dystopian with the “Spencer Nye” series before co-founding the Kindle Fire Department blog and Booksends. Currently he’s running the book advertising site Booksends while penning the fantasy series “The Cumerian Unraveling.”
He will talk about his switch from writing to running a book promotion site, how important it is for authors to advertise their books, what an author can do to increase their chances of getting picked up by ad sites, and other tips and tricks he’s learned along the way.
While you’re waiting for the show to start, check out our latest blog interview, this week with bestselling fantasy author Robert Crane: http://selfpublishingroundtable.com/interview-with-bestselling-fantasy-author-robert-crane/
QUESTION: How do advertising sites like Kindle Fire Department and others that have the word ‘Kindle’ in it get around the trademarking rule for Amazon Associates thingie, where it says don’t include it in the domain/FB group. Are they just not putting it in the domain but getting around it by having a way different domain name to the actual name of the site?
michelleread Also, in related to news. Michelle Read was a guest on Buddy’s Writing Show this week which itself was a fantastic podcast. I recommend you check it out.
Carl Sinclair michelleread I’ll second that, but only watch it if you like to laugh. If you don’t like to laugh, then piss off. And I mean that in the nicest way.
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo
on July 18, 2014 at 1:33 am
BatmanErica Carl Sinclair I remember when their style of clothing and glasses seemed WEIRD! Now they just look exactly like everybody I see everywhere!
How does the sales spike from services like Booksends affect Amazon rankings? How is it different than it was a year ago? BTW, I’m a big fan of Jason. He’s done great things for my books 😉
writerwade We should all move to the same neighborhood. Best block parties ever. Also….no one would be sleeping because we’d be too afraid someone wold draw something on our foreheads.
Back. Thought Carl Sinclair had somehow got my phone number when my phone started ringing. Was just work asking me how to do something I’ve not done in over a year o.O
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo
on July 18, 2014 at 1:38 am
Jason, the booksends form says novellas are “unlikely” to be accepted. Is there a word count cut-off or is it about spots available? How do you like the 30k-word size?
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo
on July 18, 2014 at 1:39 am
JThorn On this thread, I guess we’re wondering if Amazon de-values links coming from the booksends affiliate account, like they seem to do with bookbub-originating sales.
writerwade michelleread Oh my goodness Wade, I’m not sure why but I just spit out my tea. (Erica do not speak!) I was just wondering how we can make his job easier for him……what makes a good client. How can we make it easier for him to work with us.
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo
on July 18, 2014 at 1:41 am
BatmanErica CateMorgan Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo If not, no worries, cuz we already have the advantage of writing 3 entire books in the time it takes to write one big one. 😉
ZoeYorkWrites Carl Sinclair oh, I inadvertently annoyed people who have children the other day by saying I was getting up earlier now and enjoy having breakfast outside at 9.30am 🙂
xgranville Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo kevinmichael3 I’m trying to keep up with the comments, not watching the people talking (I am listening to them though)
ZoeYorkWrites yeah, we sometimes don’t get up until 11am on the weekend. Messes up with the sleep cycle on Monday though, but then I’m up by 9.30am on weekdays 😛
BatmanErica ZoeYorkWrites I hate and love this. I look forward to my children being able to get themselves breakfast without spilling milk all over the kitchen floor.
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Why use five words when one will do? *NOVELLAS FOREVER* (As an aside, Victoria Dahl’s novella Fanning the Flames, currently free, is probably my favourite book of the year so far … I’m pimping it everywhere, including here, apparently)
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo
on July 18, 2014 at 1:50 am
Carl Sinclair Writing a compelling first page is cheating. You’re tricking readers into buying the whole book when you could just tell them on the first page what happens.
ZoeYorkWrites Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo OMG. I would have Victoria Dahl’s babies if that was possible. I fangirled and fell on my face last year when I met her…
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Carl Sinclair I agree. Also, having professional editing and cover design is cheating due to the fact it gives you an advantage over other books.
S.M. Butler ZoeYorkWrites Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Go read Fanning the Flames right now. Drop everything else, including the Diva Anthology work. I’ll make all the excuses.
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo
on July 18, 2014 at 1:55 am
BatmanErica xgranville Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo kevinmichael3 He said no to novellas, so I’m going to start one of those zany-indie-author email campaigns that Jason can talk about on a future podcast. 😀
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo
on July 18, 2014 at 1:57 am
Ronny Khuri YA is tough. I posted a compilation of 7 of my YA novels to my romance-author page, suggesting the fans might pick it up for their kids. I sold 5 copies. For comparison, I can post basically anything–and I mean anything–in the romance line and sell 50 copies.
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Ronny Khuri YA is just not a big indie / e-book market. It’s still big time trad right now. Same as epic fantasy for the most part.
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo
on July 18, 2014 at 2:00 am
Carl Sinclair Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Ronny Khuri But I believe in my dreams. My dreams. I read a blog. It told me to write what I have in my heart!
S.M. Butler michelleread Carl Sinclair xgranville I do find it somewhat funny given Darren has one of those accents that is not considered soothing. He’s from fucking yorkshire lol
Speaking of tech that tells how much of a book a reader has read…noticed that scribd/oyster tells you that as well (via Smashwords) and it says how much is read and how many cents you get.
Carl Sinclair S.M. Butler michelleread xgranville I said nothing about “soothing”. It’s not just the accent, though. It’s the pitch of the voice, too. 🙂
CateMorgan xgranville S.M. Butler Yeah, I’m so glad Ontario isn’t as bad as the mid west parts of Canada for those goofy voices. In Ontario we have a lot of people who sound like they’re from the South. It’s just a hick accent. Nothing more.
Evening all.
Time for a little roll call. Shout out if you love to #SPRT
PatrickStemp Good evening Patrick
While you’re waiting for the show to start, check out our latest blog interview, this week with bestselling fantasy author Robert Crane: http://selfpublishingroundtable.com/interview-with-bestselling-fantasy-author-robert-crane/
Just settled in to watch with a bacon omelet and a nice tall glass of lemon, lime and bitters. Roll on the show 🙂
kevinmichael3 you handling invites?
BatmanErica what’s a bitter?
writerwade PatrickStemp Hey Wade. Ready to SPRT!
So cool to be watching live. I don’t get the chance to do that much. Hey gang!
writerwade http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitters specifically the Angustora one 🙂
PatrickStemp writerwade always
JThorn I’m the same way. I can’t always make the live show. Usually I’m watching on Friday. 🙂
writerwade PatrickStemp Only in private.
Do I have time to cook a bowl of lucky charms? We on schedj?!
Goooood evening all you fine and fancy people.
xgranville just in time for the lemon, lime and bitters 🙂
Ronny Khuri Cook…a bowl of lucky charms?
S.M. Butler JThorn Next week’s guest in the house!
xgranville I dabble in the culinary arts as well
BatmanErica xgranville VERY fancy!
xgranville the only alcohol I been drinking lately 😛 Seem to be addicted to it since being introduced to the Angustora in Perth.
writerwade JThorn I shall endeavor not to drop f-bombs too much…
S.M. Butler writerwade JThorn why?
S.M. Butler writerwade JThorn why? We like f-bombs 🙂
kevinmichael3 I love this series, BTW. Seems like the best advice these days is to just keep writing 😉
xgranville Hey Xavier. One week away from being a year older?
xgranville just bought my second bottle. Took me about a month and a half to go through the first one 😛
S.M. Butler writerwade JThorn F-Bombs are awesome.
Almost ready to go. Just working out some tech stuff.
kevinmichael3 Is that a euphemism for FUBAR? 😉
TuckerAuthor kevinmichael3 it could be fucked up but still recognisable 😛
BatmanErica TuckerAuthor kevinmichael3 True.
writerwade S.M. Butler JThorn No idea. It sounded like something I should do…
Where’s Carl? I had a question for him about pen names.
TuckerAuthor kevinmichael3 You can never go wrong with a Tango and Cash reference!
PatrickStemp so hard to come up with something unique. Trying to come up with one atm >.<
PatrickStemp Oh not bloody you again.
Carl Sinclair PatrickStemp This could be the only hour of sleep you get all week, Carl.
Carl Sinclair PatrickStemp huh apparently Sandy is a unisex name o.O
Here we go 5,4,3,2,1
Carl Sinclair PatrickStemp Hi Carl!
Congrats, Carl!
PatrickStemp Carl Sinclair Howdy. What do you think of my tagline under my bio?
Where’s Michelle Read?
BatmanErica Say her name three times and she shall appear.
Sup kids!! I can’t stick around, just wanted to drop in say hi and tell you all to enjoy the show.
I’m there…drinking out of my SPRT glass.
Carl Sinclair MIchelle Read. Michelle Read. Michelle Read….do I need to look in a mirror while the lights are off too?
ZoeYorkWrites Yeah she is!
How’s the audio volume for everyone?
Inconceivable!
writerwade Good here
Carl Sinclair I don’t think that word means what you think it means…
CateMorgan I posted that in response to someone who made a serious typo in their FB status 😛
Carl Sinclair PatrickStemp I don’t see it. “Bio not provided” on your profile page. If you mean your lower third I haven’t seen it yet.
Evening. OMGoodness Liam Kingman is here!
michelleread Liam Kingman More important, the lovely Michelle Read is here!
michelleread Liam Kingman Hello Michelle and Liam!
Carl Sinclair Liam Kingman it worked! Hi michelleread
michelleread Liam Kingman Just for a few more minutes, The boss man wants me to start working in a few minutes.
Liam Kingman WB Liam.
BatmanErica Carl Sinclair Liam Kingman michelleread You’re magic 🙂
michelleread Carl Sinclair Liam Kingman I will not deny that 😛
BatmanErica michelleread Carl Sinclair Liam Kingman And modest
If anyone has any questions for Darren about his holiday to Italy, don’t ask them. He doesn’t care about your wants or needs.
PatrickStemp michelleread Liam Kingman Patrick! I second my statement earlier this week…..”We’re everywhere.”
Liam Kingman michelleread Absolutely not! Put him on the computer. I will convince him to let you stay.
Carl Sinclair Then tell him from me that my bottle of vodka can beat up HIS bottle of vodka.
michelleread PatrickStemp Liam Kingman For sure!
PatrickStemp michelleread Liam Kingman Hello, hello. I miss hanging out with you all, stupid night shift always getting in the way.
Carl Sinclair Is the food in Italy good? Is it picture worthy? Because from the Facebooks, I just can’t be sure.
QUESTION: How do advertising sites like Kindle Fire Department and others that have the word ‘Kindle’ in it get around the trademarking rule for Amazon Associates thingie, where it says don’t include it in the domain/FB group. Are they just not putting it in the domain but getting around it by having a way different domain name to the actual name of the site?
michelleread Liam Kingman Hi Michelle!
michelleread Carl Sinclair I went on a diet of just watching what he ate, somehow I still gained weigh.
May I just say, when I found out who the guest was this week, I was excited…because I knew it was going to be a good show. That is all for now.
writerwade michelleread Liam Kingman Oh you beat me to it! Hi writerwade ! Nice fish, by the way….impressive.
michelleread Also, in related to news. Michelle Read was a guest on Buddy’s Writing Show this week which itself was a fantastic podcast. I recommend you check it out.
writerwade michelleread Liam Kingman writerwade I shall like this post now, for my favourite “liker”
Carl Sinclair michelleread Dang you! Do not tell people that.
Carl Sinclair michelleread It was a good one indeed.
michelleread Carl Sinclair He may have posted a photo or two.
michelleread I’m only like this on the internets 😛
Carl Sinclair michelleread I’ll second that, but only watch it if you like to laugh. If you don’t like to laugh, then piss off. And I mean that in the nicest way.
Liam Kingman michelleread Carl Sinclair Me too! Nothing I could make would compare….so I just ate a lot of Snickers.
PatrickStemp xgranville Yessir. I’ve been prepping the bonfire pit. Shits gonna get LOUD.
Speaking of eye candy, my face is back for you live.
Liam Kingman Carl Sinclair michelleread Thank you…I think? Also….Hi xgranville !
michelleread Liam Kingman Carl Sinclair xgranville Hellooo!
Carl Sinclair I want my money back 😛
Carl Sinclair On that note, time to go.
BatmanErica Carl Sinclair Haters gonna hate.
Liam Kingman Carl Sinclair Boo!!!!
Liam Kingman Carl Sinclair We will only release you if you post a picture of your actual face.
michelleread Liam Kingman Carl Sinclair Guess I’m here until next spring it is. Mute button where are you. =)
Jason is so polite and pleasant. I like him very much!
BatmanErica I’m just picturing a group of men in a red vehicle throwing books onto fires as a means to put it out.
Dinosaur Noirotica is coming soon thanks to Xavier Granville.
kevinmichael3 ooh I love that title!
michelleread That’s high praise from the more polite of all of our viewers.
Carl Sinclair michelleread 🙂
BatmanErica kevinmichael3 Should I hold auditions for who does the porno version of my book series? haha
xgranville what, a casting couch? 😛
BatmanErica xgranville I was thinking in a van.
xgranville so they’d have to be local…
Questions for Jason?
Email list question is getting two thumbs up from me.
BatmanErica Maybe do an American Idol-like panel competition.
xgranville in the meantime Kevin will have released it under a new pen name while you weren’t looking 😛
http://trext.me
Is that what he’s talking about? Because that’s awesome!
michelleread I hate text messaging. Kill it with a stick >.< Speaking as a person who has a phone…
BatmanErica michelleread I’m going to text you all day every day now. #trollster
Carl Sinclair BatmanErica michelleread Erica give me your number immediately 🙂
Carl Sinclair me or michelleread ? Cause you have my husband’s cellphone number, not mine 😛
I am so glad he just explained that….it took a while for my brain to get it though. #ubertired
This weeks episode makes me realise that we have….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wl_uQOABxg
Carl Sinclair I preferred the live in concert version they did a couple of years back in Welly 🙂
BatmanErica Carl Sinclair Yeah bloody good live.
BatmanErica Carl Sinclair I remember when their style of clothing and glasses seemed WEIRD! Now they just look exactly like everybody I see everywhere!
xgranville BatmanErica With a tear stained mattress in the back
Carl Sinclair I still prefer the live recording of Humans are Dead from before their tv show. Way better.
May I have Jason to carry around in my pocket please?
I wish Darren was my neighbor.
PatrickStemp xgranville BatmanErica Yeah…tears..
How does the sales spike from services like Booksends affect Amazon rankings? How is it different than it was a year ago? BTW, I’m a big fan of Jason. He’s done great things for my books 😉
writerwade One day, he will be mine.
writerwade Instead you got Mr. Rogers. Shit.
xgranville PatrickStemp BatmanErica At least…
writerwade We should all move to the same neighborhood. Best block parties ever. Also….no one would be sleeping because we’d be too afraid someone wold draw something on our foreheads.
michelleread writerwade I vote Canada. Come on. You know you wanna.
xgranville michelleread writerwade Yeah kinda……
xgranville michelleread writerwade Hockey!!
Does Jason have any demographic breakdowns of his subscriber list? Or, another way of asking that, what genres or types of books perform the best?
In a perfect world, what would you think Amazon could do to help promo services like Booksends see better results?
xgranville Good question!
writerwade xgranville michelleread We got so much hockey, we’re practically GIVING THIS SHIT AWAY.
Back. Thought Carl Sinclair had somehow got my phone number when my phone started ringing. Was just work asking me how to do something I’ve not done in over a year o.O
What can we do to help him stay on top?
That was a question, sorry. How can we best support what HE does, since he works so hrs for us?
Jason, the booksends form says novellas are “unlikely” to be accepted. Is there a word count cut-off or is it about spots available? How do you like the 30k-word size?
michelleread my husband won’t let me draw on him >.<
BatmanErica Carl Sinclair Typical Carl.
BatmanErica michelleread My husband will let you draw on him. I just asked.
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo 37 minutes!
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Are there ANY book advertising sites that accept novellas? Novellas are books, too!
michelleread I tend to draw large cocks…
JThorn On this thread, I guess we’re wondering if Amazon de-values links coming from the booksends affiliate account, like they seem to do with bookbub-originating sales.
BatmanErica michelleread I am not talking to you anymore.
CateMorgan Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo I’m actually looking at setting up something geared towards novellas / shorts, etc…
Carl Sinclair BatmanErica Is this where we make fun of the new (again) dad and tell him about all the sleep we’re getting?
michelleread what are you offering?
michelleread also boobs…
kevinmichael3 Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo This is the cat!
Shucks. Thanks Darren.
writerwade michelleread Oh my goodness Wade, I’m not sure why but I just spit out my tea. (Erica do not speak!) I was just wondering how we can make his job easier for him……what makes a good client. How can we make it easier for him to work with us.
BatmanErica CateMorgan Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo If not, no worries, cuz we already have the advantage of writing 3 entire books in the time it takes to write one big one. 😉
BatmanErica michelleread bewbs
BatmanErica Back to not talking to you.
ZoeYorkWrites Carl Sinclair oh, I inadvertently annoyed people who have children the other day by saying I was getting up earlier now and enjoy having breakfast outside at 9.30am 🙂
JThorn I can attest that J Thorn is awesome. He’s the nicest horror writer since Jay Chastain.
BatmanErica Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo I’m in!
CateMorgan Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo I’ve had my novella featured a couple of places – Freebooksy, KBT…I’ll look back and see where else.
michelleread you’re the one that calls them bewbs. They’re BOOBS or BREASTS. You’re a writer, don’t be afraid of words… 😛
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo BatmanErica This is true…
kevinmichael3 JThorn Speaking of the devil…
BatmanErica michelleread Sssshhhhhh.
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo kevinmichael3 CAT?! Where?!
BatmanErica Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo kevinmichael3 There!
CateMorgan BatmanErica Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo It hasn’t hurt HM Ward.
BatmanErica michelleread I like boobs
xgranville Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo kevinmichael3 I’m trying to keep up with the comments, not watching the people talking (I am listening to them though)
JThorn kevinmichael3 Jay is off injecting JOOSE into his bloodstream Bane style.
ZoeYorkWrites CateMorgan Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Sa-weet!
michelleread well… I can think of a few things…
michelleread writerwade *doesn’t speak*
The Canadian Sensation? *heavy breathing*
BatmanErica ZoeYorkWrites Carl Sinclair http://www.mandatory.com/2014/07/08/an-average-saturday-morning-with-kids-vs-without-kids/
It’s kind of an oxymoron isn’t it? It’s like Jumbo Shrimp, or Honest Lawyer.
xgranville JThorn kevinmichael3 WTF is Jay?
Carl Sinclair PatrickStemp Finally caught the lower third. Nice. Wrong, but nice.
BatmanErica michelleread tits, ta tas, melons, rack… want me to go on?
writerwade BatmanErica michelleread Oh my goodness. Well good for you. Save the boob conversation for the after party where I may silently bow out!
BatmanErica xgranville JThorn kevinmichael3 ???
JThorn BatmanErica xgranville kevinmichael3 Jay am become Death, destroyer of Joose.
JThorn BatmanErica xgranville kevinmichael3 FYI Joose gave Jay a kidney infection. You don’t want that crap in your bloodstream.
ZoeYorkWrites yeah, we sometimes don’t get up until 11am on the weekend. Messes up with the sleep cycle on Monday though, but then I’m up by 9.30am on weekdays 😛
kevinmichael3 JThorn BatmanErica xgranville Kidn-AIDs.
BatmanErica ZoeYorkWrites I hate and love this. I look forward to my children being able to get themselves breakfast without spilling milk all over the kitchen floor.
http://www.genrehobo.com check it out people. Although it has been begging for updates this week.
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Everyone should feature the Genre Hobo in my opinion.
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Thanks for asking this 🙂
http://www.genrehobo.com/
Jason, do you think that marketing is cheating?
Kindle Unlimited wild speculation. Check it out: http://www.kboards.com/index.php/topic,189900.0.html
Carl Sinclair You’re the best-est-est!
kevinmichael3 The sky just fall on their faces.
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Why use five words when one will do? *NOVELLAS FOREVER* (As an aside, Victoria Dahl’s novella Fanning the Flames, currently free, is probably my favourite book of the year so far … I’m pimping it everywhere, including here, apparently)
Kindle Unlimited – over 600,000 ebooks and thousands of audiobooks available for US$9.99
Carl Sinclair Writing a compelling first page is cheating. You’re tricking readers into buying the whole book when you could just tell them on the first page what happens.
Carl Sinclair kevinmichael3 So that’s what Skyfall was about.
michelleread writerwade BatmanErica Don’t worry Michelle I’m more wild in comments than in person. 🙂
ZoeYorkWrites Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo OMG. I would have Victoria Dahl’s babies if that was possible. I fangirled and fell on my face last year when I met her…
BatmanErica All of them about zombie intestines & honey badgers.
kevinmichael3 Ow my corneas
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Carl Sinclair I agree. Also, having professional editing and cover design is cheating due to the fact it gives you an advantage over other books.
Carl Sinclair BatmanErica The honey badger is related to the wolverine. (Theme: things my husband informed me of at dinner today.)
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo kevinmichael3 will it be America only to start with?
Carl Sinclair Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo You can only publish with Comic Sans as your font, unless you’ve purchase special licenses for other fonts.
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo kevinmichael3 You roll them so hard you tore them up again? Poor thing.
S.M. Butler ZoeYorkWrites Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Go read Fanning the Flames right now. Drop everything else, including the Diva Anthology work. I’ll make all the excuses.
poop golem
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Carl Sinclair Everything has to read like it was inked by Stan fucking Lee.
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Carl Sinclair Mmmm…Hugh Jackman…oh different wolverine? 😛
S.M. Butler ZoeYorkWrites Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Now I want to read it again. I’ve already read it twice.
ZoeYorkWrites S.M. Butler Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo DUDE. I just downloaded it. This is what I’m doing tonight.
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Carl Sinclair BatmanErica Now that’s a good… wolverine / honey badger shifter incest….
S.M. Butler Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Poor Mimi, trapped in my fangirling thread.
kevinmichael3 what? You make a golem from poop?
kevinmichael3 I should work on it, since it pays better than my sci-fi so far. 🙂 YEAH AFFILIATE SALES$$
Carl Sinclair Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo BatmanErica Hugh Jackman turning into a honey badger erotica haha
Carl Sinclair Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo what, the shifters are cousins?
As an author and promoter, I’m curious what Jason thinks are some of the best ways to reach YA readers, which seem more difficult to reach?
BatmanErica xgranville Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo kevinmichael3 He said no to novellas, so I’m going to start one of those zany-indie-author email campaigns that Jason can talk about on a future podcast. 😀
CURRY DAMN YOU
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Carl Sinclair I fucking love comic sans. Wingdings too.
Ronny Khuri mmm….curry…
🙂 thanks
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo kevinmichael3 I read it every morning with my vodka.
Ronny Khuri I could go for some korma right now.
Ronny Khuri mmmmm curry
ZoeYorkWrites Ronny Khuri I love a rogan josh
ZoeYorkWrites guess what I had for dinner last night? Chicken korma!
Ronny Khuri YA is tough. I posted a compilation of 7 of my YA novels to my romance-author page, suggesting the fans might pick it up for their kids. I sold 5 copies. For comparison, I can post basically anything–and I mean anything–in the romance line and sell 50 copies.
Ronny Khuri we do love your epic beard though.
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo BatmanErica xgranville kevinmichael3 Or the great Mimi Strong could start a novella mailing list…
Carl Sinclair ZoeYorkWrites Ronny Khuri I think you mean Joe Rogan
Carl Sinclair Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo kevinmichael3 we demand free content.
kevinmichael3 Ronny Khuri The beard was not that beardy last week. I think we may be dealing with a doppelganger.
kevinmichael3 Ronny Khuri Haha… your beard is humbling me
I have a question for the audience
Who was responsible for Jay being a sell out and giving up his artistic dream to sell out and write …. pulp fiction?
Ronny Khuri Carl Sinclair ZoeYorkWrites I think you mean Josh Groban.
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Ronny Khuri Yeah. that’s brutal, but not unexpected
Carl Sinclair Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Then you will love my new book about werebeavers. The dialog is in Wingdings.
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Ronny Khuri YA is just not a big indie / e-book market. It’s still big time trad right now. Same as epic fantasy for the most part.
Can Darren please keep talking, forever. Thank you.
Carl Sinclair What’s this and huh?
Carl Sinclair huh?
michelleread I second this.
Carl Sinclair Jay got smart. Blame Mimi too.
BatmanErica Carl Sinclair Jay has announced he is now a sell out.
Carl Sinclair Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Ronny Khuri But I believe in my dreams. My dreams. I read a blog. It told me to write what I have in my heart!
michelleread His voice is more peaceful than whale sounds.
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Carl Sinclair Ronny Khuri Was it a kboards thread?
xgranville michelleread It really is!
xgranville michelleread Peaceful…. yeah, that’s what I’m feeling….
kevinmichael3 Carl Sinclair I must have missed this. Tell him 12 times and he’ll eventually do what you tell him to do >.<
Carl Sinclair Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Ronny Khuri I looked deeper into my heart and found that I like money and porn.
kevinmichael3 Carl Sinclair What does ‘sell out’ mean to Jay? haha
xgranville that would be disappointing, indeed
S.M. Butler xgranville michelleread That’s quite enough of that.
Carl Sinclair Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Ronny Khuri And by heart, I mean vodka bottle, half-full of tears.
Carl Sinclair S.M. Butler xgranville michelleread Not really. Keep going.
S.M. Butler xgranville michelleread I’m the pretty one here, move along.
Carl Sinclair S.M. Butler xgranville michelleread is this the Americans finding any accent sexy thing?
Carl Sinclair Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Ronny Khuri so i shouldn’t be writing YA epic fantasy?
Carl Sinclair S.M. Butler xgranville michelleread All good feelings must be directed at Carl.
BatmanErica Carl Sinclair S.M. Butler xgranville michelleread Not ANY accent…. But his? Yes.
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Carl Sinclair Ronny Khuri I love you a wee bit.
Why the price disparity between genres? Is it a popularity/reach thing, or something else I’m not seeing?
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Carl Sinclair Ronny Khuri So weird, I did the same thing.
Carl Sinclair S.M. Butler xgranville michelleread You two can talk to each other…….don’t feel left out! And you can lull our children to sleep.
michelleread Carl Sinclair S.M. Butler xgranville The accent whisperers
michelleread Carl Sinclair S.M. Butler xgranville Yes. That. Exactly. Just talk.
michelleread still not talking to me? I should brush my teeth before the after party…
S.M. Butler michelleread Carl Sinclair xgranville Just read off Lorem Ipsum
S.M. Butler michelleread Carl Sinclair xgranville I do find it somewhat funny given Darren has one of those accents that is not considered soothing. He’s from fucking yorkshire lol
CateMorgan I’m assuming it has to do with reach and size of the subscriber list for each genre
Ronny Khuri Carl Sinclair Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Totally write it! And then replace the sword fights with werewolve/bbw sex scenes.
TuckerAuthor CateMorgan the romance list is twice the same of the ya list for example.
BatmanErica michelleread Hi Erica 🙂 Be nice. Don’t make me blush with your dirty words! I am trying to listen!
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Ronny Khuri Carl Sinclair or tiger shifters getting railed in a double team by bear shifters.
Carl Sinclair S.M. Butler michelleread xgranville Could be worse. Could be Cockney. Or Welsh.
Carl Sinclair Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Ronny Khuri That reminds me, I was supposed to leave the house today.
Speaking of tech that tells how much of a book a reader has read…noticed that scribd/oyster tells you that as well (via Smashwords) and it says how much is read and how many cents you get.
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Carl Sinclair Ronny Khuri Outside? Overrated.
BatmanErica I don’t think anyone has ever read any of my books on Scribd.
Carl Sinclair Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Ronny Khuri It’s where the bugs are. Something landed on my arm yesterday. SHRIEK!
michelleread I’m just saying body parts. Arm….knee…knuckle…left kidney…right tes–
Carl Sinclair S.M. Butler michelleread xgranville I said nothing about “soothing”. It’s not just the accent, though. It’s the pitch of the voice, too. 🙂
ZoeYorkWrites for one I made 1 cent 😛
Thanks, Jason. We appreciate it.
At least he’s not a chav!
All hail Jason Letts! Shameless plug! Nyyahh!
American accents are clearly not sexy…unless you’re Texan, apparently.
xgranville The trash heap has spoken!!
Wade has lost control.
CateMorgan Awesome! I’m Texan. 😀
S.M. Butler CateMorgan Canadian accents are no better haha.
Great show
xgranville S.M. Butler CateMorgan I like Canadian accents too. 😀
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Ronny Khuri Awesome show, great job!
Great show! So nice to meet Jason on the video!
kevinmichael3 Does want.
I approve of this plan.
xgranville S.M. Butler HA! I spent years in the northern Midwest, dere hey don’tchaknow. So, yeah–I know what you mean.
kevinmichael3 37 minutes mimistrongauthor@gmail.com
kevinmichael3 me too please 🙂
kevinmichael3 Yes please
CateMorgan xgranville S.M. Butler Yarp. I’m blessed with a minimally nonsensical accent.
Hulk Sinclair? ; )
kevinmichael3 me please! but if there are 10, I can wait and come in later, I’m writing. zoeyorkwrites@gmail.com
S.M. Butler Darren and I will sing in duet for you if it helps?
xgranville S.M. Butler Every time I watch Fargo, I fall over laughing from all the cartoony accents.
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TuckerAuthor Grayson.
Carl Sinclair And you will see me melt into a little puddle of Suz.
Carl Sinclair TuckerAuthor Ah, that’s a good name : )
CateMorgan xgranville S.M. Butler Yeah, I’m so glad Ontario isn’t as bad as the mid west parts of Canada for those goofy voices. In Ontario we have a lot of people who sound like they’re from the South. It’s just a hick accent. Nothing more.
319 comments!! SPRT listeners are freaking awesome! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Nobody wants in an after party?
Carl Sinclair This guy, if Kevin hasn’t already set it up
Carl Sinclair There’s a few people listed below.
Carl Sinclair Myself, Erica, Michelle, Mimi and Zoe are all saying yes.
xgranville Carl Sinclair yes please
ZoeYorkWrites kevinmichael3 invites out.
writerwade It’s all because of Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo
Mimi Strong aka Genre Hobo Thanks for listening, Dalya!
JThorn Thanks for your question, J!
the SPRT after party crew for tonight. Buddy, Darren, Erica, Chastain, Kevin, Michelle, Mimi, Xavier and Zoe York. Hosted by yours truly.