In today's economy\u00a0most of us are on budgets that are beyond tight.\u00a0 Never have we needed hope, optimism and a belief in the future more.\u00a0 And never could we afford it less.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Traditionally published romances average around $7.99 and new releases by some publishers top the $12 mark.\u00a0 If you're trying to make a house payment and keep your lights on - how can you justify spending that money for a book?\u00a0 Most of us can't these days.\u00a0 We simply can't.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yet you can pick up many indie romances for as little as 99 cents.\u00a0\u00a0I published The Duke of Eden<\/a> <\/em>on Amazon as a serial before I finished the full.\u00a0\u00a0There are 3 parts of the serial up at Amazon.\u00a0 Each sells for 99 cents and the full sells for $2.99<\/a>.\u00a0 It's easier to pick up the book in 1 installment, but if your budget won't allow it, then pick it up a piece at a time.\u00a0 Most writers who sell serial stuff only put out little chunks, a chapter or so at a time, making the whole book much more expensive than just buying a regular novel.\u00a0<\/p>\n I didn't\u00a0do that.\u00a0 I put out big chunks of Duke and only charged 99 cents for each.\u00a0\u00a0And when I published the full for $2.99, I left the serial up, even though it costs me higher priced sales of the full.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because I get it. I'm with you.\u00a0 I understand.\u00a0 I'm in the same place you are with my budget and I refuse - I absolutely refuse- to unpublish the lower priced option.<\/p>\n Many folks haven't tried indie romance.\u00a0 Somehow, they consider indie work to be\u00a0inferior and unworthy.\u00a0 Or that's what they've heard, anyway.\u00a0 Well, in today's economy when traditional publishers don't consider your bottom line, maybe this is the best time to give indie romance a shot.\u00a0 Lord knows, the news is full of gloom and doom.\u00a0 Creditors are calling, nasty letters come in the mail and many of us are paying bills in chunks.<\/p>\n More than ever, people need regular doses of the kind of hope, optimism and happy endings that they get from romance novels.\u00a0 Remember the old commercials that talked about \"Miller time?\"\u00a0 Well - it's INDIE TIME.\u00a0<\/p>\n Most indie romance sells for $2.99 or less.\u00a0 You can pick up A Faerie Fated Forever<\/a> <\/em>for free at almost every ebook site on the planet right now.\u00a0 Don't let the high prices charged by traditional publishers deprive you of the hope and optimism that helps fuel you to keep on keeping on until it gets better.\u00a0 And it will.\u00a0 We all know it will.\u00a0<\/p>\n By the time things improve, I hope that indie romance has become your first choice.\u00a0 Indie authors are doing some of the best, most creative, most cutting edge work out there. Once you go indie, you may not want to go back.<\/p>\n And why should you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In today's economy\u00a0most of us are on budgets that are beyond tight.\u00a0 Never have we needed hope, optimism and a belief in the future more.\u00a0 And never could we afford it less.\u00a0 Traditionally published romances average around $7.99 and new releases by some publishers top the $12 mark.\u00a0 If you're trying to make a house ...continue reading \"It’s Indie Time\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1959,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions\/1959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}