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Building and supporting a community of self-published authors dedicated to both sharing experiences and learning as equals.

Founded in January 2015, this groups was initially designed as a way for me to support indie authors by reading their work and featuring them on my website. Since then it has evolved into a valuable resource and support system for authors who have or would like to self-publish.

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Talking Vs. Writing
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Is Brexit just an excuse?
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Is it ever too late to expand?
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Calibre and Kindle Create for print
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Formatting for both KDP and Ingramspark
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Amazon has made a change in blurb format
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Amazon Prime Reading
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E-books and ISBNs
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Amazon tax interview
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Amazon A+ Content
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Formatting problems
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Kindle downloads
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Blurb Help - Middle Grade, From the Desk of Lizzie Lazowski
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Cover Help - MG Graphic Novel, Key & Zan
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Fantasy Cover Help! Please:)
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Cover for Dystopian Erotic Romance
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Editing Questions About E-Publishing a Public Domain Book
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Seeking out beta readers
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Author's note
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Require feedback on my first attempt at 1st Person Perspective
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Filling in travel time
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What is expanded distribution?
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Request from publishing company to use excerpt from my book
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Youtube Channels...
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At what point in your writing journey do you start promoting your book?
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How is self-publishing?
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Author Research Study
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Fear of the indie author lifestyle
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BARCODES FROM BOWKER
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Blurb input
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Book Synopsis - The Bipolar Addict
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Opinions on back cover synopsis
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* Anyone seen results for goodreads ads?
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* Ingram Spark, Createspace, Print and fulfilment
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