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Indie authors, there is no better time to help each other!

Date: November 18, 2009

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This is a fantastic article written by April L. Hamilton, the founder of Publetariat, which I repost here in its entirety with her permission. It’s a great challenge for indie authors – to find, read, review and promote other indie authors’ books. I love this idea, as this is the core of 2.0 approach to publishing – to help each other, being at the same time the author, the publisher, the critique and the reader.

Let me add Feedbooks to a list of sites, where you can find fantastic books by independent authors. The tag to follow an action on Twitter is #indieaction. Join in, have fun and spread the word!

An Indie Call To Action

Most of us indie authors talk a good game about how there are plenty of quality indie books available, and how there are plenty of terrible mainstream books. We also like to complain about the lack of variety and originality in mainstream book offerings as compared to indie books. Such musings generally lead to the conclusion that if people would just give indie books the same chance they give to mainstream books, if they would just put indie books to the ‘fifteen minute’ or ‘first ten pages’ test, the frequency with which they’d find books they would want to keep reading would be on par with that for mainstream books, and indie authors and readers everywhere would rejoice. It’s time we stop all the hand-wringing and blind hope, and make this happen.

Yes, we have the power. Every indie author is also a reader, and every one of us has a circle of influence. So if you’re an indie author or small imprint owner, I issue the following challenge to you: »»»