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Selling direct
I recently found out about a company called Curios.com who help authors sell direct. My plan going forward is to have US copyright and sell on a platform such as Curios. I will also be selling physical books. I think most people expect you to have books on Amazon. But going forward, Amazon is going to be a very minor part of my strategy. I also recognise that women’s history is not a massive niche. I do the books because I want to do talks. I want to talk about women from the past such as Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë. There are many people out there who do enjoy that. I have promised myself to have my current books on Curios within 2 weeks. My new books coming out at the end of May will also go on there.
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@Rob Cole I want to get my books into bookshops. I don’t see that Amazon helps with that at all. I intend to do small print runs of my books. then plan to see if I can get them into bookshops. I emailed a bookstore recently. They replied quite positively. I hope 2 or 3 others might. I want to do events in bookstores. If the stores cannot obtain the books at trade prices, I have to fund the events myself and supply the books. I accept that my chances of getting my books into the main bookstore chain in the UK, Waterstones is slim. My number 1 goal is to be invited to literary festivals, history conferences etc. I definitely need physical books to further that aim. My long term goal when I am aged 70 and retired is to sell the rights to my books to a trad publisher.
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ID verification
Thanks to those who responded to my question regarding ID verification. You were all right. This is something that Amazon does from time to time. One might expect them to do the is when you open the account, but they can do it at any time.
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Amazon
Has anyone else had an email from Amazon telling you to verify your identify? I have been on Amazon for 18 months. This seems odd. I don’t even mind if they close my account. I don’t like Amazon anyway. I am now publishing wide with D2D.
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US copyright
I sent a book to the US copyright office for registration on 23 January. I thought it took 6 weeks. I am still waiting. It’s now about 12 weeks. Quite irritating. However, I have not let it get me down too much. I have started work on another book in the meantime. And while waiting for US copyright, I have been contacting organisations offering to do talks about my next book. This book is about Jane Austen. As I hoped there is interest in her. I want to do talks as much as I want to write books, if not more. I am trying to sew seeds now so that over the next 18 months, I can do talks in all sorts of places. And maybe I can do a talk in America some time.
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I am sending this book to the US copyright office because US copyright means something. If my copyright is infringed, I have a proper enforcement process. I don’t want bots reading this book and feeding it out for free. The UK government has made it clear it is not interested in protecting writers and others from AI and from other infringement. Writers from JK Rowling downwards lobbied on the issue and got nowhere. I want to sell this book around the world, including in the US. I currently think that having an actual copyright certificate is better than merely asserting the right to copyright. There is a high chance I won’t bother with future books. It has been a very slow process.
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WD: What part of writing your book has surprised you the most so far?
Open ended question this week. Figured this might drum up some new ideas on ways we can help this community out. :)
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I think the two are 1. How deep within yourself you have to dig to make it happen. 2. Who supports you. The support of friends, partners, archivists, other authors keep you going. People believe in you and hep e.g. by volunteering to read a draft or proof read.
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@Dr Susan Myburgh I started with the same idea. I just had a little book which explained that my local area is not Notting Hill. It is harder than you may think to “get your book out there”. It will be hard to reach beyond family and friends. I am now on book 4 which about women contemporaries of Jane Austen. I am now starting to use Draft2Digital to get my books on other platforms besides Amazon. I am on Instagram. I got myself on BBC Radio recently with the first book. As hardly anyone knows me, I try to get speaker gigs. 18 months on from book 1, I realise the while thing needs a plan and a budget. I have joined an author programme to get help and support. You may end up feeling the same way.
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