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 by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

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 by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

After my post Wednesday, where I extolled
the virtues of the feeling of control that one gets through the self-publishing
process, I thought I’d backtrack a bit today and talk about the times I don’t have a feeling of control as a
self-publisher.

A large exception is dealing with a
certain mammoth retailer.  When Amazon
writes me an email, I pay attention and immediately do whatever it is that they
want me to do. 

This is the first time I’ve received this
particular email from Amazon:

Hello,

We
recently noticed the digital list price for the title(s) listed below is higher
than the list price of the same book listed on Amazon.com or another website.

A Body in
the Backyard (A Myrtle Clover Mystery) (ID: B009YAVVAU) is listed on Amazon.com
at $3.99 and at $2.99 on Sony

According
to our pricing policy, your book should be priced no higher than the list price
on Amazon.com or any other sales channel for either the physical or digital
edition of the book. Please adjust the list price for the above book(s) within
the next 5 business days. If the price isn’t updated within 5 business days, we
may remove the book(s) from the Kindle Store, at which point you will need to
republish the book with an updated price.

For more
information on our list price requirements, see section 4 on our Pricing Page
below:

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=200634500

Thanks
for your understanding.

Sincerely,

The
Kindle Direct Publishing Team

When I read the email, I said, “Whoa,
whoa, whoa!” and quickly hopped over to the Sony page and the Amazon page to
see what the heck was going on.  Had I
signed something like that?  A “list
price requirements” thing? Why didn’t I remember signing something like
that?  Note to self—review
contracts from time to time! I’m running a business, but clearly—at
least sometimes—I’m not completely paying attention.

Honestly, I had never been over to the
Sony page for my book.  In fact, I’d
never been over to the Sony bookstore, period. 
I deal with Smashwords for Sony, Kobo…the odds and ends of my income
from non-Amazon sources that aren’t B&N (whom I deal with separately.)

Sure enough, there was the book in
question, listed for $2.99.  I do know that Sony can be painfully slow to
make changes to pricing. I know this from when I’m done with a free book
campaign and I’m trying to end it…and they’re the last holdout. I immediately
raised the price on Smashwords to $3.99, and then pulled up the book on Amazon.

I looked at my Amazon page for Body in the Backyard…they’d already lowered
the price to $2.99 without waiting for approval.

So, not really wanting to lose 95% of my
self-pub income for that title by having Amazon boot the book from its catalog,
I quickly lowered the price on the Amazon Bookshelf page (where it was still listed at
$3.99, even though the price for readers was a dollar lower.)  Sony might not raise that price in five
business days and I wanted to cover my bases.

Not a lot of control here, right?  But then—no
one has control over Amazon. 
Penguin would agree with me there. How eager was I to correct this
matter and put Amazon on better terms with me as a publisher? I can’t
overemphasize how eager I was.  I make a
good deal of income from them.

Where else do I feel as if I toe the
line?  As I’ve mentioned many times
before—with my readers.  They have Ideas
about Things.  :)  Their ideas encompass everything from chapter
length to profanity to storylines to characters they’d like to see more
of. 

I’d like to say that I write to please
myself, but if that were solely the case, I’d be writing crummy and unpublished
poetry. No, I’m a commercial writer and I’m writing for an audience…am I
concerned about their opinions?  You
bet.  I’m not going to incorporate every
single suggestion I get (that would be taking things a bit far), but if I see a
trend on a particular idea or complaint—I’m absolutely
taking it into account.  It would be
silly of me not to, considering my goal is to please my readers and have them
keep reading.

Summing up, I’d say that even on the
self-publishing side of things, we’re not totally independent.  If we are, then
we’re perhaps not working with our retail outlets well or providing our readers
what they want.  It’s good to be
independent…I enjoy it…but we still have responsibilities, red tape, etc.

If you self-publish, have you come across
an email like this one from Amazon? Do you follow reader feedback?  Are there other examples you can give where
you’re not really completely an
independent contractor/publisher?

Update: I just checked (8:30 a.m. EST 8/9) and Sony has raised the price for the book. Took them about 72 hours.  Going to re-adjust on Amazon now. Whew.

 by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

I’ve discovered that there are many things that I like about being a hybrid writer (one who self-publishes as well as publishes traditionally.)

I like the visibility that traditional publishing still affords me.  There are still some folks out there who shop in bookstores and have discovered me that way.  Penguin’s mysteries do tend to get decent visibility on Amazon, too, and they’re doing a good job with Facebook mentions and tweets on their end.

I like that my output tends to be higher when I’m working with my publishers’ deadlines.

I like the editing and story development assistance that I receive from my editors.

On the other hand, I like the higher income that I receive from self-publishing. 
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by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

Considering how much I post on Twitter, it’s amazing how little time
I spend there (thanks to a handy-dandy free tool called “Social Oomph“).

There are a few things that I see on
Twitter that make me wince.  One is a BSP
(blatant self-promotion) tweet that’s a variant of: my book is for anyone who loves a great story!

Well…sure.  We hope that anyone who enjoys reading will
love our books, right?  Just the same, I
know a good deal about who I’m aiming for with my books. I know how and where
they shop, their general age range, their interests, their general thoughts on
profanity and violence in books.  I know
their gender and some of the things they enjoy doing in their spare time. I know what they’re looking for when they pick up a mystery.

Clearly, not everybody is going to fit
into that very general reader demographic. But many do.  I aim for them with my books.  How do I know so much about them?  Readers email me.  They’re my friends on Facebook and Pinterest.
I listen to them and pay attention. My publisher helps me with demographics, too, and
nudges me in the right direction if I stray too far (which happened in my last
manuscript, as a matter of fact).  And I sure hear about reader preferences in
the customer reviews…good, bad, and ugly.

This isn’t a difficult task.  And structuring a story for a particular
genre or audience doesn’t much alter the most basic aspect of our story,
either. We do this all the time…this process comes naturally to us.

For instance, y’all know I recently
returned from a family vacation in Kenya (photo above. With baby elephant in the background). :) Upon my return, I’ve been asked about my trip by different friends and
family.

When young children asked me, I talked
about the big cats and the elephants we saw.

When my son’s teenage friends ask me, I
share with them that we had a leopard and hyenas running through our safari
camp at night.

When my parents asked me, I may have left
out the bit about the leopard and the hyenas since they wouldn’t have been wild
about the fact their grandkids were in a tent with wild animals around.

When an epicurean friend asked me about
the trip, I talked about the food that we ate there and how it was prepared.

A well-traveled friend specifically
wanted to know more about our flights over there and where we stayed for our
layover.

You get the idea. And this is just
filling people in on a vacation…in a way that hopefully makes the
vacation story at least a wee bit more interesting to them.  We do this all the time, right?  Tailor our stories for different groups of
people we know.  Our boss will hear one
version, our parents another, our children another, our best friend a different
one still.

If we’re writing genre fiction, it does
help to know the genre…not to limit ourselves, but because we have a good
picture of our reader.  We know some
general expectations that readers of a particular genre may have.

So, for me, if I’m writing a story about
a con man who gets murdered, I’m slanting it in a different way because I’m
writing for readers who enjoy cozy (traditional) mysteries.  The con man’s death won’t be gory, or, if it
is, I’m sure not going to describe it. My main character will be an amateur
sleuth who is tangentially involved with the case and feels a personal duty to
investigate.  Forensics won’t be
included.  The dead man’s wife won’t be
cussing up a storm when she comes across his body. The pace I’m aiming for is
one that moves along, but isn’t afraid to have some gentler detours.

Now, let’s pretend I’m writing a story
about a con man who gets murdered—but I’m writing a police procedural.  Now my main character is likely a cop.  I will probably describe the crime scene in
some detail, since the police must examine the crime scene. Forensics will be
there and my protagonist will be checking in with them later to get all the
clues they need to help solve the case. 
My victim’s wife can throw any kind of a fit she likes.  The pace of the story is fairly measured (but
never slow) as the police investigate the crime with a structured approach.

Now I’m writing a thriller about a con
man who gets murdered.  Maybe the reader
is even in the killer’s head sometimes….heck, maybe we even know the killer’s identity (which we sure wouldn’t know in either of the
other two genres I’ve mentioned) because the important thing in this story
isn’t the whodunit puzzle, it’s the race against the clock. Perhaps the killer
has a long-standing grudge against the man who conned him out of his life
savings and all the people the con man cares about.  We’re in a race against time and jump from
the killer’s POV to the cop’s POV with nerve-wracking parallel editing.  The mood is dark and tense and the pace is
very fast.

The fact that I know what I write and who
my readers are means that I’m not going to turn a thriller over to my editor
for my cozy readers. 

When I get an occasional email from a
teenage boy or a college-age woman saying they love my books…I’m thrilled. I
really am. And it shocks me to pieces. 
They aren’t the demographic I’ve shot for. And I’m delighted when I pick
up readers along the way.

Who is your reader? 

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

 

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How To Self-Publish A Bestseller:
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10 Visual Steps To Self-Publishing Your
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Marketing 101: Start with the Right
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Discounts and book hoarding: http://bit.ly/13dBnPr @dearauthor

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When Readers Don’t Know What Your
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Nonfiction: Does Your Table of Contents
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Alternative Plots: http://bit.ly/1dY5kYX @ingridsundberg

Writing Scenes You Haven’t Seen: http://bit.ly/13IfZFk @PatrickRwrites

Advice to Young Writers: http://bit.ly/1dY5JdN @fsgbooks

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Writing is Rewriting: http://bit.ly/13IgFuz @shalvatzis

“”It is too often a sad and
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The 50 Best Sites for Indie and
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Prewriting Ritual: Boost Your Brain Power
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10 Traits of a Great Protagonist: http://bit.ly/13IjkUN @Janice_Hardy

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Character Archetypes 101: The Magician: http://bit.ly/11jJahc @jeanniecampbell

4 Hidden Rewards of Rejection: http://bit.ly/11jNAEM @michelecushatt

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Raising Questions with Your First Line: http://bit.ly/13j7AVv @EMentior

Keeping Your Spirits Up Before You Get
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Active Writing Keeps Readers Engaged: http://bit.ly/15UaSAK @NancyBrandon4

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Chekhov’s Gun: http://bit.ly/15UcdaI @melissadonovan

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5 Uses of Infinitives: http://bit.ly/15UcSJe @writing_tips

Plot genres: http://bit.ly/11mmtZB @ingridsundberg

Writing magic: http://bit.ly/15Ud0IM @chuckwendig

Five Things You Need to Know About Young
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Free Scrivener Templates To Structure
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The Influence of Film on Writing: http://bit.ly/1aPl9S4 @fcmalby

Blocks and Breakage: http://bit.ly/1ccvZDf @dancinghorse

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The Unexpected Exotic: Settings in
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The Risk-Taking Writer: http://bit.ly/19Y7LOg @terrywhalin

How Do You Build a Fan Base, Anyway? http://bit.ly/12dP93g @goblinwriter

Fighting the Summer Slow Down with a Fast
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ATrick for Tightening Your Dialogue: http://bit.ly/1by132v @KMWeiland

9 Distractions for Waiting Writers: http://bit.ly/13oxMxg @ava_jae

Timelines: Plotting: http://bit.ly/1by1gTg @fictionnotes

10 Things You Don’t Want In Your Novel: http://bit.ly/1by1k5u @angelaackerman

How to Keep Writing When You’re Scared of
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Five Ways to Tell If a Writing Partner is
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Female Heroes in Literature: http://bit.ly/13oyiLE @AlienNextDoor

The Art of Relocation: a Poet Chooses
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If agents are selling publishers to
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Do it yourself? 10 tips for beginners
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@darlawrites

Indie Author Organizations for Publicity:
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How Genre Labeling Keeps Some Books from
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Writing, Art and Outlining: http://bit.ly/1cjXkmZ @fcmalby

7 Reasons You Should Have a Songwriting
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Authorial Artists: 5 Painters Who Also
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30 Days of Screenplays “Little Miss
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How to Develop a Daily Writing Habit: http://bit.ly/18KPRep @rfwilliford