A.C. Flory Joins Indies Unlimited Staff!

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We are pleased to announce that author A.C. (Andrea) Flory will be joining the staff of Indies Unlimited as a contributor.

A.C.Flory is an Australian writer who detoured in teaching and technical writing before finding her niche in science fiction. Her other passions include biology and genetics, foreign languages, opera, video games, four-legged animals and food. Her written work includes user manuals for off the shelf software and a debut science fiction novel titled Vokhtah. Learn more about author A.C. Flory at her blog, Meeka’s Mind, or her Amazon author page.

Aside from being an author, beta-reader, and blogger, Andrea is one of the most supportive and positive people we know. Please join us in extending a warm Indies Unlimited welcome to A.C.

Good English Word Polish

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[Indies Unlimited is brought to you in part by the fine people at Good English, a division of Imelda's Offshore Holdings and Shoe Equity Fund.]

Authors, is your manuscript dull and lackluster? Are your characters flat and lifeless? Are you plagued by embarrassing typos and malapropisms?

Professional editing can be costly and time-consuming. What’s an author to do?

Thank goodness for Good English Word Polish! Just spray some on your manuscript and watch your prose glisten.

Good English removes unwanted adverbs, strips away verb-tense conflict, aligns backstory, corrects unseemly timeline errors, and eliminates repetitive phrases.

Best of all, Good English Word Polish is non-toxic and typo-allergenic. Try some today! You’ll be glad you did.

Who Are You?

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Imagine for a moment that you have been invited to a costume party especially for authors.

You must dress in a costume that reflects the kind of writing you do. If you write in more than one genre, your costume must incorporate some element from each genre.

The game is that readers who attend will try to divine who you are from looking at your costume.

The more genres in which you write, the more elaborate your costume becomes; which may mean it will be harder for readers to guess your identity. That’s not how you win in this game, though. You win by being recognizable. Continue reading →

Books for a Buck

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I can see I’m going to have to have a word with the art department.

Anyway, It’s Thrifty Thursday. No need to go hunting all over the internet for savings. You can rack up some great deals. You won’t have to come up with a lot of doe. <end pun spree>

If you have a book priced at 99¢ or less, follow the instructions below and post it. If you see one you like, click over and buy it. How easy is that? Readers & reviewers – check these babies out!

Each Thursday, we will put up a post like this one, calling for anyone who has a book priced at 99¢ (or less – such a bargain!) to provide ONLY the following in the comment section below:

1. Book title

2. Author name

3. A one sentence blurb (not a Faulkner sentence, either. Be reasonable.)

4.  A link to download the book (only secure retail sites – Amazon, Smashwords, B&N, Kobo, Apple/iStore, & Sony)

Then let your friends and fans know your book is available here today. Use the share buttons below, or copy the link in the address bar above and share the news on your favorite social media platforms. The more, the merrier, right?

So let’s give it a try, shall we? Please make sure to follow the RULES above. Now, go ahead and tell the world about your cheap read. PLEASE do not post links to erotica titles. IU is a safe-for-work site.

(If you’re looking for FREE eBooks, check each Friday at 5 AM Pacific time for those.)

End of Book Depression Solved!

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This past Friday, our Lynne Cantwell wrote a post about the Importance of Being Earnest or the Unbearable Lightness of Being Done or something like that, after writing an entire series of five books in one year. Show off. But now she’s feeling that post-partum depression. Well I could have told you that would happen.

There are many cures for this kind of thing, and I’m going to share them with you. Call your shrink and cancel that appointment. I’m saving you like 90 bucks by giving you this advice for free. You must be feeling a tad guilty over that – am I right? See? I know you just as well as your therapist, but without the inconvenient office visits. In any case, here are the top ten keys to preventing and avoiding end of book depression. Continue reading →

Flash Fiction Vote

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The time has arrived once again for IU readers to choose their favorite entry from this week’s flash fiction challenge.

We had a number of great entries. Kudos to all the entrants. Now IU readers must decide: Who will be this week’s Flash Fiction Star?

Check out this week’s entries here. Vote for your fave then use those share buttons at the bottom of the post to spread the word.

 

Who wrote the best story for this week's flash fiction challenge?

  • Ed Drury (29%, 43 Votes)
  • Maggie Rascal (29%, 42 Votes)
  • D.R. Shoultz (22%, 32 Votes)
  • Dick C Waters (14%, 20 Votes)
  • Stacy Mantle (6%, 9 Votes)

Total Voters: 146

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Scratching the Surface of Scrivener

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I really wanted to write a post about Scrivener. Why? Because I love it and I want to tell the world.

It is the best writing program I have ever encountered and if you want to know the reasons why, you can read this Indies Unlimited guest post by Lara Reznik. Lara’s post is brilliant and lists the basics of what Scrivener is all about and why she uses it.

I realized after reading her post and seeing many other posts similar that I am really only scratching the surface of this amazing program. I know I am not using it to its full potential and this is something I want to change.

I have set myself the goal that as soon as my current project is finished, I will take some time to really study this program and figure out how I can get the most out of it. It’s one of those cases of a little time spent learning will no doubt save me hours in the future.

In order to prepare for this self-inflicted study course I have researched a few resources that might help me and I wanted to share them with you, in case you’re interested in doing something similar.

So here’s what I’ve found: Continue reading →

Amazon Author Like-Fest

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Yes, yes, yes. The big bad Amazon took away the like buttons on our book pages. Oh, the humanity! But that doesn’t mean you should neglect your Author Central page. (Oh please, don’t tell me you don’t have an Author Central page. Here’s how to make one. It’s free. Don’t be the last one to have one, for crying out loud.)

And now it’s time for an Amazon author page like-fest! You know how this works. Put the link to your Author Central page from Amazon in the comment section below, and people will click over and give you a nice, reassuring like.

[Don't forget, if you right-click the links, you can choose to have them open in a separate tab so you don't have to worry about navigating back and forth to pages.]

Please submit ONE AUTHOR PAGE only. 

For anyone who has ethical issues with giving a like to an author they haven’t read, that’s fine. We don’t see likes as equating to an endorsement though. We regard likes as more analogous to a “high five” than a rating or review. We do not support the idea of rating or reviewing a book you have never read.

As a matter of good form, if you do put your link in so other people can like your page, do take the trouble to like the others. Here’s one to get you kicked off:

The Evil Mastermind himself, five-star author Stephen Hise: http://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Hise/e/B004WG3JG0/