Hey, Joe ChickenHawk is still publishing. Hello from Denver has moved on to greener pastures, and I'm ghostwriting. It's significantly more difficult to find a space in the indie publishing market these days, because so many people discovered it a few years back. ChickenHawk found her market and has many loyal fans, basically without advertising. Hello and I had to advertise, and he did better than I did because of deeper pockets - and then a lot changed. Amazon changed their Kindle Unlimited program and changed it again. Facebook got cagey with their advertising policies. Toward the end of 2015, a lot of authors were losing their ad accounts and sometimes their entire accounts.Since there hasn't been a real update in over a year, how is everyone doing? Is it still possible to follow the same process and research until I found a profitable genre, read a bunch of the bestsellers, come up with my own version and repeat like it was 4 years ago? I'd love to hear from some of you guys again. I'll also check out some of your individual progress threads as well.
Thanks again. I've learned so much from you guys!
That isn't to say it can't be done. It absolutely can. However, I maintained then—and I haven't changed my mind—that it isn't Fastlane. In the first place, it violates the cardinal rule of control. It also, if you're writing fiction like we all were, is very time-consuming. Hard to scale yourself, though some have done so by using people like me, who will write for a price. I've written for flat fee, for royalty share, and for advance against royalty share. That's my favorite, because it's now money and if the author you work for is good at marketing, later passive money as well.
If you enjoy writing and want to see how your work does in the marketplace, don't let me discourage you from doing it. The last book I wrote was for a young man who is very new to the marketplace, and his books did $25k in October. $6700 of that was from the book I wrote. But it still isn't Fastlane.
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