Author: K.S. Brooks

K.S. Brooks is an award-winning novelist, photographer, and photo-journalist, author of over 30 titles, and executive director and administrator of Indies Unlimited. Brooks is currently a photo-journalist and chief copy editor for two NE Washington newspapers.  She teaches self-publishing and writing topics for the Community Colleges of Spokane, and served on the Indie Author Day advisory board. For more about K.S. Brooks, visit her website and her Amazon author page.

Tuesday Tutorial – YouTube “Links”

Movie Clapper BoardEveryone knows if you’re an author with a published book, you’re supposed to have a video trailer. It’s become virtually mandatory. But many Indie Authors can’t afford to pay to have one done, nor do some of us have the knack for doing that kind of thing ourselves. But all is not lost.

If you have a YouTube channel, and if you have videos on that channel, there is still something you can do to help steer people towards your book(s).  It’s extremely simple but most of us don’t do it. (Yes, you can even do it on your book’s video trailer if you’re fortunate enough to have one.) Continue reading “Tuesday Tutorial – YouTube “Links””

We’re Here to Help

by K.S. Brooks and Stephen Hise

You want help and Indies Unlimited wants to help you. Indies Unlimited provides a number of different types of features that can showcase you and your writing (e.g., interviews, guest posts, sneak-peeks, video book trailers, etc.). We also get a ton of page views here, and that number is trending consistently upward. The exposure you get here can be very beneficial to you. Continue reading “We’re Here to Help”

People Are Talking…

People TalkingYes, they are. People are talking about Indies Unlimited. We like that. Thank you to all the folks who have posted about us on their blogs and web sites – from Southern Comfort to Grammatic Effects to a blogger in South America – El Visitante Maligno… We really appreciate all the kind words, the links back to IU, the shares, the tweets and re-tweets.  Thanks for the support.

If you’re new to us, and you’d like to get a better idea of what we’re about, please check out our Press Release which explains why Evil Mastermind Stephen Hise decided to build this death star of a blog.  The short of it is, we’re here to help.

Here at Indies Unlimited, we’ve been hard at work to help get the word out to Indie Authors and readers all across the globe. We’re now on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/IndiesUnlimited and you can find us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/IndiesUnlimited.

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Dropbox: A Handy Tool for Authors

DropboxHave you ever lost all the work you’d done because you didn’t back up?  I think it’s happened to all of us.  It’s happened to me. After a power surge in my 100-year-old home, I ended up paying a computer forensics company $1500 to get my data back.  That was a long time ago.  And believe me, I learned my lesson.

I back up to CDs and to an external hard drive.  Neither of those are greatly convenient.  But there is something better. Continue reading “Dropbox: A Handy Tool for Authors”