□ It's Not Just About Salesįiona Cameron's latest self-published novel So would I rather have written a book that garnered more than a thousand Amazon reviews, or would I rather feel I even had my foot on the same ladder as Penelope and Sally? Guess. Utter rubbish!' My 4th book was selected by a book club too, and I know some of them hated it. Sally Vickers' Instances of the Number Three: 29 reviews, including this: ‘This was our latest book club choice. Can't understand how it won the Booker prize.' ‘I disliked this book intensely,I finished it because I belong to a book group and wanted to join in the discussion at our meeting. Nooteboom's The Foxes Come at Night gets very positive reviews: a whole TWO of them.Īnd how about Penelope Fitzgerald's Offshore? It has 69 Amazon reviews. The Amazon reviewer quite clearly didn't ‘get' it. #JUTOH REFRESH PROFESSIONAL#I assume this reviewer is referring to reviews in the print media, by professional reviewers – and yes, maybe they were OTT, because this is (to my mind) one of the finest travel books ever written. Having said that, he has a good writing style, but pity it was not more focused on the many aspects of Spain.' Frankly, I feel it gives a very limited image of Spain. ‘Despite all the hype and OTT reviews, I was disappointed with this book, but if you like reviews of churches, religious artefacts, and architecture, then go ahead and enjoy. A princely total of three Amazon reviews, and here's one of them: Take, for example, Cees Nooteboom's Roads to Santiago. However, I find it comforting, in a perverse way, to look at the Amazon reviews of some of the books which I would rate as my top ten of modern fiction and non-fiction. I'd say I'd be very lucky if I'm making back 10% of what it's cost me to get the book out, in the first year at least.Īny advertising I do (very little), and using facilities like Netgalley (I'm growing fonder of it by the day, BTW) eat up more than that 10% return. I have very few Amazon reviews (although I tend to get some very pleasing direct feedback from readers), and I sell very, very few copies of the ebook versions. I spend not only a lot of time but a lot of money on getting each book out, because I'm paying for professional editing, cover design & formatting, to make sure each is as good as it can be. When Scottish novelist Fiona Cameron shared her new philosophy of self-publishing in the ALLi Facebook forum (one of the many benefits of a paid membership of the Alliance of Independent Authors), her post resonated with so many members that we wanted to share it with the wider world on our blog too.Īlthough I now have five novels to my name, the whole self-publishing arena is STILL a very steep learning curve for me.
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