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Thanks so much for sharing your experie...Julianne,<br /><br />Thanks so much for sharing your experience. I've gone back and forth on whether to self-publish, but it seems more and more to be a viable alternative.<br />Best of luck with The Color of Heaven!Sheila Lambhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17086803824797966290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3511332502155562886.post-58165470433277601162011-03-20T15:07:22.516-04:002011-03-20T15:07:22.516-04:00Thank you, Mike - the room was spinning for me, to...Thank you, Mike - the room was spinning for me, too, when the numbers jumped like that. I think it was a combination of a lot of things - the cover, the cross-genre story, what I did to promote it, and the price at 99 cents. Though I've since raised the price to 2.99, I may drop it again at a later date to promote it again, maybe when the print edition becomes available.Julianne MacLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01285810099526604897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3511332502155562886.post-6025157370685639142011-03-20T15:01:59.099-04:002011-03-20T15:01:59.099-04:00Hi Cindy - I will lump it all under my writing bus...Hi Cindy - I will lump it all under my writing business, because the money I am earning is royalties on my own work, same as always. I'm not in business as a publisher, not publishing other people's work, so I don't see a need to distinguish it.Julianne MacLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01285810099526604897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3511332502155562886.post-68647431149835892992011-03-19T14:42:15.252-04:002011-03-19T14:42:15.252-04:00Excellent post, Robin.
Julianne, congratulations ...Excellent post, Robin.<br /><br />Julianne, congratulations on your astounding success. I'm a noir fiction author with a novel and a collection of short stories. I have yet to figure out how to convert free copies into reviews, and my 99-cent price doesn't seem to be having any effect at all, but when I read you went from zero to 1000 books a day in just 3 weeks, the room began to spin. Well done.Mike Dennishttp://mikedennisnoir.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3511332502155562886.post-73030563157205660602011-03-18T11:02:29.487-04:002011-03-18T11:02:29.487-04:00Great interview. Thanks for sharing so much infor...Great interview. Thanks for sharing so much information, Julianne. The book sounds great. I have a question that you may or may not know the answer to. I've been considering the self-publishing idea but does that make you a publisher now? So when you file your taxes do you have to distinguish between the writing and the publishing? Or is it all lumped under writing?Cindy Carrollhttp://www.cindycarroll.com/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3511332502155562886.post-26437462506646426472011-03-17T13:36:09.581-04:002011-03-17T13:36:09.581-04:00Sandy - it is a lot of work, but it's a lot of...Sandy - it is a lot of work, but it's a lot of work to publish traditionally, too. I did the same amount of promo for The Color of Heaven that I always do for my print books. <br />And yes, you can get people to do the formatting and uploading for you, but you still have to oversee everything and make sure you are getting what you want in terms of the cover art. I personally loved having control over all that stuff.Julianne MacLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01285810099526604897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3511332502155562886.post-49768197354008228452011-03-17T12:44:41.413-04:002011-03-17T12:44:41.413-04:00I'm thinking about self-publishing, but I hear...I'm thinking about self-publishing, but I hear it's a lot of extra work, which I have very little time for. Are there professionals who can help with self-publishing, and do they cost a lot?Sandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01843816981385732033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3511332502155562886.post-5409758116295502342011-03-17T02:03:36.614-04:002011-03-17T02:03:36.614-04:00I saw your link to this on the Kindleboards forum....I saw your link to this on the Kindleboards forum. This is extremely helpful to newbie indies just starting out such as myself. Thank you for taking the time to share!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3511332502155562886.post-81683681678147195562011-03-16T23:20:35.168-04:002011-03-16T23:20:35.168-04:00Thanks so much for sharing your experience with se...Thanks so much for sharing your experience with self pubbing through Amazon and B&N. I have several novellas I've self-pubbed with them that are doing quite well also. I'll be ordering your highlander series. Love those!<br /><br />McKenna Chase<br />www.mckennachase.comMcKenna Chasehttp://search.barnesandnoble.com/SWEET-PLEASURE/McKenna-Chase/e/2940012090881/?itm=1&USRI=mckenna+chasenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3511332502155562886.post-45059784784910522522011-03-16T22:34:45.756-04:002011-03-16T22:34:45.756-04:00Thank you for sharing this, Julianne. And huge con...Thank you for sharing this, Julianne. And huge congratulations on the success of The Color of Heaven! :)Annette Gallanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17139138912473286143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3511332502155562886.post-90364637521861998952011-03-16T21:39:35.535-04:002011-03-16T21:39:35.535-04:00Hi Trish - you asked why I took a pen name.. It&#...Hi Trish - you asked why I took a pen name.. It's because I wanted to make sure my readers understood that this was a very different type of book. It's not a romance novel. There's some romance in it, but a lot of other stuff, too, some of it too tragic for some romance readers. I didn't want to keep it secret, either, which is why I put my real name on the cover as well. When I write another book like this, I will write it under the EV Mitchell name again.<br />Thanks for popping by :)!Julianne MacLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01285810099526604897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3511332502155562886.post-10588160743068760682011-03-16T16:58:09.023-04:002011-03-16T16:58:09.023-04:00I love reading success stories when it comes to se...I love reading success stories when it comes to self-publishing. Thank you for the great marketing tips! I'm going to need them this April. :)Angela Carliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09577188107520703962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3511332502155562886.post-53610207783042482962011-03-16T16:51:25.907-04:002011-03-16T16:51:25.907-04:00Julianne, very interesting post. I'm curious w...Julianne, very interesting post. I'm curious why you chose to put this book out under a different name. Was it a strategy for this new means of publishing or because it was a different type of book than you normally publish?<br /><br />Huge congrats on your phenomenal success!Trish Milburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08812010789617982102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3511332502155562886.post-29064679081018846562011-03-16T16:24:26.169-04:002011-03-16T16:24:26.169-04:00Congrats are in order and I love the cover of your...Congrats are in order and I love the cover of your book. It's always good to hear a success story when we're just starting out and beginning to realize the long, hard road to achieving some kind of momentum. I was in for a rude awakening because I thought once I put the book out there readers would find it, but pretty quickly saw the reality behind that illusion. You have to be willing to work very, very hard to promote it without any guarantees that you will succeed. But I'm in for the long haul and I really believe in my book. I know there's an audience for it somewhere and the task is to find it with a lot of patience and perseverence, probably the same combination it took to get it written to begin with.Beatrice Brusic - Author of Beyond the Snows of the Andes, A Different Journey, Jill and Mickey, Six Months of Wonderful, The Dark Path of Julie E.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12781951445470720764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3511332502155562886.post-34361796126786526662011-03-16T13:56:21.958-04:002011-03-16T13:56:21.958-04:00Here's another little number nugget I didn'...Here's another little number nugget I didn't mention in the blog. (I used to be an accountant, so I love hard data.) <br /><br />In order to hit that Top 100 list, I sold about 500 copies on Amazon in about four hours, which put me at #96 on the list very quickly. By nightfall I had sold 1000, and was #55. So that's what it took.Julianne MacLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01285810099526604897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3511332502155562886.post-49832874845740764772011-03-16T13:43:37.295-04:002011-03-16T13:43:37.295-04:00Hey again Theresa - thanks for the support :)
XOX...Hey again Theresa - thanks for the support :)<br /> XOXOJulianne MacLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01285810099526604897noreply@blogger.com