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Join the Crusade 

I was invited to guest post for Bookmachine and decided to dig deeper in the point made by Kristine Kathryn Rush that we might be at the end of the indie gold rush, if there ever was one. Here's to starting the year on a positive note!

An  ALCS survey in the UK last summer crystallised industry concerns about whether career authorship is a viable profession these days. The report painted a somewhat grim picture for professional and part-time authors alike–regardless of whether those authors publish traditionally or independently. (For a crash-course on the industry landscape, I recommend Kristine Kathryn Rush’s exhaustive report on “things indies learned in 2014”.)

The question now is, has the indie “Gold Rush” passed? Is success finite, and has it been mined to depletion?

I don’t believe so.

In fact, I’m convinced we’ll see many more indie success stories over the next few years–maybe even more than the ones we’ve witnessed so far. The “Gold Rush” ends when there is no more gold left, or no way to get to it. That’s not the case here. The problem today is that there are too many people who want to find it, and perhaps not enough of them willing to do the hard work it takes to strike it rich.

Why I dumped my publisher and went the selfie route

I never knew what it meant to be an author until I became one. As I wrote previously, I had stars in my eyes, imagining that I’d find instant fame because my books have cleaver titles. Not only do they have cleaver titles, but they are also well written and chock full of information. Somehow, that’s not enough to sell books.

My first publisher loved the title of my first book, Trials of an…

Good News Everywhere: The Surprising Year In Books

GOOD NEWS FROM FORBES AND BOWKER

Concrete data compiled by the book industry experts at Bowker…