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TWR Monday | The Indie Author's Path: Navigating Misconceptions and Hurdles · The Whitfield Report

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  But giving offense is good. In fact, it's essential.
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  Hello everyone, and welcome to this Monday edition of the
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  Whitfield Report. I am your host, Sam Whitfield,
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  recording here at Right to Fence Studios in South Florida.
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  And I don't have a guest today, ladies and gentlemen, rather I
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  am flying solo. It's just me today.
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  And yeah, part of that is just because we don't have any
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  guests, but also I wanted to take the opportunity here to do
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  a just a bit of a reflective show for you all and talk a
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  little bit about my experience as an indie author over the past
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  few few years. One-on-one with you.
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  And maybe share some insights on some parts of the indie author,
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  I guess, field or lifestyle that are not as glamorous as you may
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  think. Because for all of the wonderful
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  opportunities and for all of the successes that I have had so far
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  in this field, I've had my pitfalls as well.
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  And I think it is important to not only reflect on the
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  accomplishments, but also to reflect on some of the
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  challenges that we have as indie authors as well, and some of the
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  pitfalls that we face. And not only to help other
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  authors who are starting out or maybe on the same journey, but
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  also to help the reader and or purchaser understand where we're
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  coming from as well. Now, I don't want anyone to get
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  this. This is not going to be a bitch
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  fest per SE. Because as I just said a moment
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  ago, I am incredibly, you know, blessed to have had the success
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  that I've had so far and whatnot.
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  And just the opportunity to not only publish my own work, but
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  also to interact with so many incredibly wonderful authors and
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  to have them on this podcast, this community is just so
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  amazing, especially kind of in the men's adventure fiction and
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  thriller genre. I I've been so incredibly
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  blessed to meet so many of you, at least online, and each and
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  everyone of you means a lot to me.
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  So if you're listening to this and you're watching and your
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  fellow author, I really appreciate you and I hope we
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  some of the stuff that I speak about resonates with you.
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  And same thing for the readers who got and purchased, you know,
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  my books and spread the word and all of that.
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  It means a great deal to me. And so I want you to you all to
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  know first and foremost, I am in fact grateful for all the
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  support. And it does mean a lot to me.
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  And even if you're not like a super big reader, if you've
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  picked up my books, you know, here or there out of curiosity,
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  and if if you've at least supported me, I really do
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  appreciate all of your support. So I want to get that out of the
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  way. However, one thing I do want to
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  address as kind of in a big elf in the room for not just me, but
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  for a lot of other authors, in particular indie authors and
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  self published authors that I've noticed is the kind of I like to
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  call the plague of the freebie person.
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  I don't really know how else to define the other than, you know,
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  calling them what they are, which is someone who begs for
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  freebies constantly. And they may have good
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  intentions even when when they do this.
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  But let me give you an example because this actually happen
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  happens a lot to me. In fact, this has been somewhat
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  of an issue. I've been, you know, I've been
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  dealing with this on and off, you know, throughout my writing
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  career for the past two to three years.
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  But it really kind of came to a head this past August.
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  And I want to talk about the month of August specifically for
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  any authors, because that month seems to be a challenge in and
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  of itself. But I kind of want to talk
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  about, I kind of want to, you know, define a little bit what I
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  mean by a freebie beggar, right? So when I mean like a freebie
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  bag, what I mean is someone who they're not really interested in
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  like financially supporting your books, but they constantly want
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  like, you know, freebies of your book or what not just for the
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  sake of it, right? And I guess a better example of
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  this would be like, you know, one in particular.
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  Let me lay out a scenario. So at the end of July or more
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  towards like the middle slash end of July, I published this,
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  you know, I just book in the shadows of Deception saga since
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  the Assassin, which despite the fact that I, you know, that it
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  is a shorter book compared to some full length novels and
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  whatnot, it still took me a full year to write it.
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  Despite using some, you know, AI tools to, you know, help like do
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  edits and clean some stuff up and what not.
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  That's another misconception. People think that because I use
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  AI tools, some of them think that, you know, you know, the AI
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  just writes Sam's store forming. No, that's not how I use ChatGPT
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  or AI tools at all. I use them more as, you know,
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  tools to make, you know, corrections or adjustments or
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  clean some things up in my manuscript and give it, you
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  know, a bit of Polish, right? There are several applications
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  for ChatGPT that a lot of authors, including myself, use
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  that help us as you know, a tool.
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  Not necessarily. As you know, we're not just
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  letting AI write the stories for us.
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  We're, you know, we're harnessing ChatGPT as a tool.
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  Same way we would use Grammarly or something like that.
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  Spell check, you know, that sort of thing.
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  So you know, there there is a subset of us who use, you know,
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  AI kind of as a tool in our arsenal, but we don't use it as
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  you know, we don't use it directly to, you know, write the
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  book for us, right? So there there's that
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  misconception, right? Basically, all I use ChatGPT for
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  is kind of to kind of the same way I use dictation.
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  Help me be more efficient with my time when writing so that I
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  can actually focus on writing the story and getting out out
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  there as opposed to, you know, physically typing, which for me
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  as someone with cerebral palsy can be difficult.
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  And also, even though I do it, you know, even though I do edits
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  and even though I do have beta readers, which I'll get to in a
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  SEC as well, you know, how ChatGPT to look over my
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  manuscripts, not, you know, it's been a helpful fool and it's
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  helped me, you know, catch mistakes and make sure that my,
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  you know, different chapters are consistent with each other
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  thematically. And I also, you know, have kind
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  of built a, you know, a universe Bible for both of the shadows of
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  deception saga and blood ties so that things kind of stay
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  consistent, you know, among kind of the universe with both
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  stories, right? So I really do use ChatGPT as a
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  tool. And I guess that's one
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  misconception that I'd like to address.
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  And again, I know that there are, you know, authors who, you
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  know, disagree fundamentally with, you know, the use of
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  ChatGPT at all. And like I said, you know,
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  you're free to, you know, disagree with me on that.
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  But like or not, AI tools are here to stay and weren't, you
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  know, they're not going away anytime soon.
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  I think the argument that the business world should be allowed
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  to use AI tools but that creatives somehow can't because,
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  you know, it interferes with the art or whatever, I think that is
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  a really poor argument. To me, that's no different than
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  people who were saying that, you know, people shouldn't use
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  digital over analog because it's somehow, you know, disrupts the
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  art form, right? That there were, you know, there
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  were the purists who thought that, you know, making movies
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  with digital was like sacrilege, right?
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  And that, you know, the purest, you know, the film purists, they
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  thought that, you know, true film makers can only make art
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  with analog film, right? Again, digital is just, you
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  know, a tool in their arsenal. And, you know, essentially, I
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  see AI tools kind of in the same way as a writer.
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  Again, AI is not making me a better writer, but it is helping
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  me to, I guess, make the process more efficient, right?
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  And so there's that aspect of, you know, writing that, you
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  know, some people may disagree with me on, but, you know,
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  that's part of my process and I've been open about it.
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  Agree with me or disagree that, you know, I think I use AI tools
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  more ethically then some people. And I, I think that there are a
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  lot of authors who because they're not as like technically
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  savvy as I am with that stuff, they don't really even
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  understand AI tools. So they're afraid of what they
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  don't understand. And that's not necessarily a, a
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  criticism of them. That's just an observation that
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  I've made. So, you know, my whole opinion
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  on AI, you know, it's a tool for me and it's a tool for some
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  others. And you're welcome to use it,
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  but I don't think you should be required to use it.
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  And by the same token, if you're using it like I am, I don't
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  think that there's any reason to look down on, you know, use it
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  like as an actual tool. I think that's fairly
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  reasonable. And I, I don't get a lot of
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  criticism for using it, but I do get some criticism from some
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  authors who, you know, I'm not going to name any names, but I
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  think it is kind of unwarranted. And we, you know, we just have a
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  difference of opinion on the subject.
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  I guess that's the best way I can put it.
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  But irregardless of whether or not someone uses, you know, AI
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  tools or whatnot, my books still take time and effort to craft,
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  regardless of what tools I use, right?
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  I put effort and care into my books and into my writing, as
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  does every author, regardless of, you know, what tools they
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  use. There are, there are lots of
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  authors out there who produce great work, right?
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  And one of my pet peeves, like I said, not just for myself, but
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  for other authors, is right. You get readers who are very
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  passionate and they want to support the author community.
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  And they do a, you know, they, they do a great job that, you
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  know, they're always going home about like, you know, helping to
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  promote indie authors and spread the word and, you know, do worms
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  beta read for people, which is helpful and spread the word and
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  share it with their family, right.
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  We love the readers and you know who you are.
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  We really do on behalf of the writing community.
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  We have the of the Indian author community.
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  I think I speak for all of us when I say we really do
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  appreciate you. With that being said, kind of
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  circling back to my initial kind of gripe, and I know I'm kind of
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  bouncing around here kind of trying to get my point is there
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  does seem to be kind of a, you know, kind of like a casual fair
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  weather person who they might like the fact that they know
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  someone who has written a book, but they're not really willing
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  to do anything to support said author or anything like that.
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  And unfortunately, I, I've encountered, you know, more than
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  one of these individuals and lately they've kind of been
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  getting on my nerves a bit. So without going into too much
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  specific detail, I'm going to lay out a scenario that happened
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  to me in the month of August, and it kind of rattled me a bit
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  and kind of irritated me. I haven't spoken on it, so I'm
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  just kind of going to vent somewhat.
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  And you know what, you guys kind of hear this whole situation and
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  kind of why I'm a bit irritated, right?
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  So as I mentioned before I released Since the Assassin at
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  the end of July, I had some terrific people beta read the
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  book. Shout out to Jake Widmer and
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  Luke Gossage for beta reading before I released the book in
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  early July and in June. They were awesome.
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  I had a few people from college who have, you know, beta read my
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  books before as well. And you know, I really
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  appreciate that. I also really support, I also
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  really appreciate Mr. Travis Davis.
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  They're one of four who very recently gave me a generous, you
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  know, shout out on his book and a beer, you know, Instagram
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  series that he does. Terrific guy.
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  All the authors I mentioned are just terrific and you should
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  definitely go and support them, right?
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  So you have the people who are endlessly, you know, who are
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  very supportive, but then you get the people who are kind of,
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  for lack of a better term, hangers on, right.
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  And so I, I encountered a situation back in August where I
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  met up with someone at a Dunkin' Donuts and we had gone to
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  college together and they, you know, we were talking life and
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  how, you know, everything was and what not.
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  And I, you know, I told them that I had just released, you
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  know, the book and I was really excited.
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  They asked if they could have a copy of the book.
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  And this is someone who I had given a copy of one of the
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  Shadows of Deception books before, and they said that they
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  would help promote and spread the word and they didn't.
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  And, you know, later on, this person in the kind of the same
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  conversation said to me that they, they weren't really
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  interested in, you know, buying the book because it was too
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  pricey for them, right? The book, the paper, the
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  paperback was retailing for $15.00, right?
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  Which I think you know, considering like what you know,
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  you know, big publishers charge these days, it's kind of a steal
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  because like even paperbacks now are 1520 dollars, hardbacks are
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  climbing up to 30 in terms of pricing.
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  And so I don't know, I, I was irritated because this person,
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  I'd given them a book before and asked them to review it or if
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  they were willing, and they never did.
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  And yet they were asking for another copy.
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  And what I don't think they understand is, is every copy
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  that an indie author gifts to someone of a published book is
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  one that. You know, that's profit that
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  we're, you know, that's money that we're leaving on the table,
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  right. And so, you know, for some
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  people to, you know, for one person to say, I would just like
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  your book, but I don't want to financially support you.
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  That can get irritating. And unfortunately, I, I've
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  talked to some other indie authors and they've kind of gone
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  through, you know, the same thing.
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  And so something occurred to me that, you know, the average
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  reader out there might not understand how the economics of
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  self-publishing goes, right? Because if I price book for $15,
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  I actually do not make $15 on a paperback.
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  I make around like $5.30 per copy of, you know, per book I
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  sell. And you know, that's the royalty
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  per, per book, right? And I, I don't know the exact
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  number, but it's, you know, it's somewhere like around the lines,
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  like I make 5, you know, dollars.
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  Not bad, you know, at all, actually pretty good.
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  But there seems to be to, you know, to be this mis, you know,
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  conception that when authors, you know, set the set, the, you
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  know, book price that, you know, we make the entirety of what
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  that surprise is. So this person, and I've
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  explained to them this before that, you know, just because the
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  book price says it's it's $15.00, I don't actually make
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  $15.00, right? You know, because I mean, part
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  of that money does go to royalties, but part of that also
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  goes to Amazon's printing and shipping, you know, and
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  distribution listing on Amazon. You know, that's not even
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  counting like promotion, which is, you know, an advertising,
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  which is a different, you know, thing.
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  You have to pay extra for that if you want to promote on
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  Amazon. So, you know, when, when I sell
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  a book for 12 or, you know, $15, I'm not making the entirety, you
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  know, of that sale price, right? And it wouldn't irritate me so
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  much if, you know, if a person were like, well, you know, I'd
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  love to buy the book, but I just can't economically swing it
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  right now, right. We all have situations like
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  that. Money is tight.
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  I get that. It's, you know, it's it's been
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  tough for a lot of out there. And I empathize and you know
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  what, not as someone who you know, who's kind of in that boat
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  for people, I get it, right. But I guess here's kind of the
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  crux of the matter, just to be blunt.
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  If you're saying you don't have enough money to support an indie
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  author or any author to buy their book, but then you're
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  turning around and like dropping that same amount of money on
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  something like Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts.
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  If you're spending that same $15 on coffee and then asking us to
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  just give you a copy. That's where I kind of get
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  irritated with some people. And I'm not the only author who,
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  you know, deals with this, but I am kind of one of the only
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  authors who I guess it's kind of speaking out this right now.
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  And it might be a minor thing to some people, But when you've put
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  hard work and effort into your writing and then people say,
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  well, I, I, I want to support you, but I don't want, I really
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  don't want to like, you know, spread the word or do you know,
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  any promotion or anything like that?
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  I I would just like to have your book and you know, your book is
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  a little too pricey, but I'm going to spend money on, you
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  know, coffee, which will just, which will just be gone in a few
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  hours. That does get irritating, not
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  just for me, but for really any creative because yeah, we don't,
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  we don't do this for the money, at least I don't.
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  But I would at least still like to make some money on the book.
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  And, you know, the worst kind of the worst part is, is I've given
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  books to people who don't even read them then, and so they
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  don't appreciate it, it seems like right.
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  And so, you know, I know that might be a convlu to ramp, but
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  that's something that I, you know, that I've dealt with off
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  and on, you know, over the past couple years and it kind of came
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  to a boiling point in August and it's time and something on my
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  mind. And you know, like I said, it,
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  it's it's frustrating. I'm not someone who, you know,
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  begs for, you know, money. I'm not someone who begs people
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  to buy my books. But if you are going to, if I, I
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  do give you a free copy right of my book, the least you could do
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  is a like read the read the darn thing, right?
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  And then, you know, give me your opinion and, you know, give me
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  your feedback wave a review, a review on Amazon and tell your
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  friends and family about it, right?
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  But if you're not willing to do any of that, as unfortunately as
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  unfortunately, it seems some people aren't, that's where
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  things get frustrating. And again, I know other authors
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  who, you know, I've unfortunately had to deal with
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  the same thing. Now, with that being said, I, I
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  do want to address lean all this because I get, I have authors
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  who do send me copies of books to, you know, either beta read
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  or just promote. Case in point, I got my copy of
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  Kyle Miltz's book Fade In a week before he came on the
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  Wakefield's War to promote it. And so, you know, to some
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  people, they might look at that and say, oh, man, Sam just gets
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  free books. And it might be true that the
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  book is free in the sense that like, you know, it's a free copy
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  for me, but I was paying for it in the sense that I had Kyle on
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  my show to, you know, promote the book and to discuss it.
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  And, and by the way, I did not ask for the book.
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  Kyle just asked if I wanted, you know, an advanced copy.
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  And I said yes. So he was very generous, you
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  know, to give it to me so that I could start to read and, you
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  know, in advance before the book and it, you know, before the
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  book launched. And it's very good.
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  So I was able to, I was happy to help, you know, him promote the
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  book, but I also went out and purchased the ebook version and
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  the Audible version as well because I liked Fade in.
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  I like the direction Kyle's new series is going.
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  And so even though, yes, he sent me a free copy and just others
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  like Travis Davis that have so many, you know, free copies as
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  well, right? But you know, Jake Widmer has
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  sent me like, you know, I've been a beta reader for his
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  books, but I still, you know, go and buy copies.
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  Same thing with Eric Bishop. Even if I don't buy physical
• 28:52
  copies, I buy a lot of, you know, Kindle ebooks because I
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  have a Kindle e-reader and I like reading on there.
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  So I do buy a lot of, you know, ebooks actually.
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  So I might not be buying a physical copy, but I still like
• 29:09
  to support my friends in the indie author community by buying
• 29:12
  copies of their work. You know, if I can, sometimes
• 29:20
  I'm not able to buy books right away.
• 29:22
  And you know, because we all have those financial constraints
• 29:26
  and I'll, I'll tell people, hey, man, I can't buy this book right
• 29:30
  now. But all, you know, it's on my
• 29:32
  list or, you know, something that affect.
• 29:35
  I try and, you know, give back to the indie author community as
• 29:41
  much as possible in that way. We all do try and support each
• 29:46
  other that way. And again, there are lots of
• 29:50
  awesome readers who do support us, but you know, there are
• 29:55
  people out there who don't really have any interest in like
• 29:59
  in the books themselves that they just like kind of orbiting
• 30:03
  around, you know, a perceived like published author.
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  And so I guess, you know, that stuff kind of irritates, you
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  know, it's just not it's not, you know, helpful guys, if
• 30:18
  you're one of the if you're one of those, you know, who just
• 30:23
  kind of wants to orbit but not really support us.
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  You know, like I said, the vast majority of people are great.
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  And, you know, we love you all and real to have people support
• 30:36
  my work and other authors in the indie community.
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  But I just felt that the that this one gripe, you know, had to
• 30:46
  be addressed. The other thing that we deal
• 30:50
  with that I I would say is more common, and I don't really blame
• 30:55
  this on anyone in particular except just for maybe social
• 30:59
  media is like, for whatever reason, August is a, you know,
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  just kind of like a very bad month for books being promoted
• 31:10
  on social media. And I don't know why.
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  I don't know if it's necessarily, you know, like back
• 31:16
  to school season or what, but the algorithm and it's not just
• 31:20
  on Instagram or you know, or Twitter.
• 31:22
  It's like all of social media just if you're a if you're a
• 31:28
  self published author, it just seems to drop off the map for
• 31:33
  all of us. And that's very frustrating
• 31:36
  because like if you, you know, even if you release like a book
• 31:40
  in July or something, which some of us do, you know, you want
• 31:43
  sales for continuous months. That's how you gain momentum,
• 31:47
  right. And so, you know, like I said,
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  since the Assassin had a terrific, you know, two weeks
• 31:58
  after it was released in July, but then I think for August, I
• 32:04
  like only sold one copy via Amazon and then two other people
• 32:11
  bought copies that I just had like, you know, physically, like
• 32:15
  on my person. I really appreciate those, you
• 32:18
  know, three people that bought the book.
• 32:24
  You all are amazing. But again, like the just the
• 32:28
  drop off as far as visibility, you know, post relating to the
• 32:34
  book on social media and whatnot was kind of irritating.
• 32:38
  And that's the that's the other thing too is, you know, in the
• 32:42
  in the author community. I guess I understand that some
• 32:46
  people might get irritated with me just, you know, posting about
• 32:51
  my books and about my author works every single day, right,
• 32:55
  on your social media feeds and other authors, right.
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  I get that, you know, we all see each other's, you know, post
• 33:06
  like promoting each promoting our latest work.
• 33:10
  And I understand that if you're not an author and if you're not
• 33:14
  even like a big reader, it can get annoying to see like, you
• 33:18
  know, my, my post, you know, every single day on social
• 33:23
  media. But, you know, unfortunately,
• 33:26
  with the way the world works now and with the way marketing
• 33:30
  works, you have to post, you know, every day.
• 33:34
  And it's not just, you know, and it's like for authors, it's for
• 33:41
  Youtubers, podcasters, you know, business, it's never ending.
• 33:48
  That is just the way of the Internet, you know, now and it's
• 33:54
  something we have to deal with. You know, people ask why don't I
• 33:58
  post like more personal photos, you know, on my timeline and you
• 34:03
  know, I do. I post, you know, you know,
• 34:06
  memories and flashbacks and vacations.
• 34:11
  And you know what? Not when I when I do travel, but
• 34:15
  day-to-day. I'm a very private person and
• 34:20
  you many, many other authors are, so I don't feel the need to
• 34:25
  document every, you know, second of every day.
• 34:30
  And honestly, like, you know, writing books, that does take up
• 34:34
  a lot of our time. So when when you're seeing our,
• 34:40
  you know, promotional posts or whatever that is, in fact, you
• 34:46
  know, you are seeing an input into our lives, authors, both
• 34:53
  indie and, you know, self published and traditionally
• 34:57
  published as well. So social media and promotion is
• 35:01
  just part of the grind at this point, I feel.
• 35:06
  And you know, again, folks, just very blessed to, you know, be
• 35:11
  able to do what I do and put, you know, three books out per
• 35:16
  year plus also this, you know, this short story collection I'm
• 35:22
  part of with Veritas Entertainment.
• 35:24
  I'll encourage people to go and check this out as well and love
• 35:30
  the Veritas crew for all they they do as well.
• 35:35
  And it's an entrepreneur F1 in that community as well.
• 35:40
  And I have an announcement that I will probably like announce
• 35:45
  tomorrow on sub stack regarding volume to of blood ties, which
• 35:49
  comes out this fall. Been working hard on that.
• 35:53
  So stay tuned for that. Like I said, you know, since the
• 35:57
  assassin until now, I did actually slightly reduce the
• 36:03
  price on the paperback to 1299 because some of you guys who do
• 36:11
  genuinely want to support the book asked for that and enough
• 36:14
  if you asked. I was like, you know, there are
• 36:18
  enough few out there who do generally want to support the
• 36:20
  book that I will, you know, yeah, I'll drop the price of it.
• 36:24
  And so for, you know, the people who do want to do that, I'm
• 36:29
  willing to for those who want to, you know, for those who just
• 36:34
  want to complain about the price of books, but then, you know,
• 36:37
  want to spend on coffee more on coffee than a book, you know,
• 36:44
  you kind of know how I feel about yous.
• 36:47
  I'm sorry if today's podcast kind of came off as a little
• 36:51
  ranty. You know, I try not to no
• 36:54
  complain too much, but this has just kind of been on my chest
• 36:58
  for a while. And I I suppose that, you know,
• 37:02
  kind of venting frustrations every once in a while is
• 37:05
  something that I like to do on, you know, the show.
• 37:08
  And it's something that is kind of therapeutic, you know, for
• 37:12
  the other authors out there. Have any of you had to deal
• 37:15
  with, you know, similar type of stuff?
• 37:18
  And if so, you know, let me know kind of what your ups and downs
• 37:22
  are, you know, as authors as well.
• 37:26
  I've talked to several of you in the past.
• 37:29
  But if there are any authors who, you know, would like to
• 37:32
  share their insights as well, you know, please let me know
• 37:35
  when we can start a dialogue and maybe start to build some more
• 37:39
  awareness sounds of this stuff. Anyway, I'm just one voice, but
• 37:46
  hopefully, you know, some of you can relate to my UPS and downs
• 37:51
  as well. And once again, very
• 37:55
  appreciative for the indie author community and also very
• 38:00
  thankful for, you know, those fans who are incredibly support.
• 38:05
  So yeah, great to talk to you as always.
• 38:11
  I will be back on the Whitfield World Live show with Max and
• 38:17
  Morpheus on Wednesday night and then Friday night I have bits
• 38:23
  and bones with more this where we discuss gaming.
• 38:27
  And so yeah, check out those shows as well.
• 38:30
  And yeah, folks, I think that will do for the show.
• 38:33
  I'm Sam Woodfield, thanks for tuning in and I will see you on
• 38:37
  the next episode of the Whiffle Support on Wednesday.
• 38:40
  And take care folks. God bless.
• 38:44
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• 38:49
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• 38:50
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• 38:55
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• 38:58
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• 39:02
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• 39:06
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• 39:10
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• 39:14
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• 39:19
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• 39:22
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• 39:26
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