Writing: How to Collaborate Effectively with Other Indie Authors In Your Genre

The introvert in me is both scared and fascinated about talking to other indie writers cause I am worried they will see me as such a fraud! But only other people who go through the same issues you go through can really understand and commiserate.

Writing: How to Collaborate Effectively with Other Indie Authors In Your Genre

Coffee optional

As part of our series of posts about different ways that indie authors can collaborate to increase their self-publishing success, US ALLi Author Member Kevin M Penelerick, who writes zombie fiction under the pen name Grivante, shares with us today a series of impressive joint projects across his genre, which could also be emulated by writers in other categories.

Shortly after releasing my first book in the fall of 2015 I had my first exposure to other indie authors. It was at the Living Dead Horror Con in Portland, Oregon and they taught me two important things:

  • There was a lot I didn’t know about when it came to selling books
  • Other authors did not have to be seen as competitors.

Starting Out

I spent most of 2016 struggling to sell that first book and learning from others. I joined author groups online and started watching to see what others were doing to be successful.

One of the key things I saw that was driving results was authors working together.

There were groups for all the main genres and many sub-genres. I had success working with other horror authors and even the broader sci-fi genre, but there wasn’t one for my particular niche, zombies.

Reaching Out

Read the full post on Self Publishing Advice From The Alliance Of Independent Authors

Time is such a funny thing

Stuff like this blows my mind. This is early film from 1929 that interviews people born in the early to mid 1800. They interview people who fought in the civil war.

Unbelievably Strange Planets in Space

Here is some inspiration for all the science fiction writers out there! Or people who just like cool science like me!

 

 

The History Of the World: Every Year

This is really cool but I also thought it might be useful for writing research or inspiration!