On the release of my second Indie novel and what I've learned...
by Linda Hall It ’ s relatively easy to get your first book out there as an Indie author. You probably already have that one novel in a drawer which has been through the rounds of agents, editors, elevator pitches, and fifteen-minute-conference-sessions-with-experts. Despite all the good advice, you still don ’ t have a publisher. So you decide to follow the lead of many modern authors and self-publish it. After hiring a cover designer and editor, it ’ s out there. And it wasn ’ t so hard. It ’ s really not rocket science. Getting that second one out there, however, and the third one, the fourth, can be more challenging. After publishing twenty mysteries with traditional publishers in the Christian/Inspirational market I was ready for a change. I wanted to branch out and write not romance, but mainstream mystery. Everyone was down on the idea, though. My agent told me I would lose readers. Writer friends would say, “What if you lose your fan base. Do you really want to d...