Showing posts with label But other authors are Cheating Why Can’t I. Show all posts
Showing posts with label But other authors are Cheating Why Can’t I. Show all posts

Friday, December 21, 2018

Answers to Some of the Questions Authors Ask—But Everyone Else is Cheating, Why Can’t I?


by Traci Tyne Hilton @TraciTyneHilton


#3 in a series where I answer questions I suspect you are asking
Indie Author: But it’s the name of the game, isn’t it? Aren’t we supposed to pad our books with extra paragraph spaces and big fonts and extra unrelated or repeat content to make them longer? Aren’t we supposed to add a link in the front that leads directly to the back to get easy page reads? Aren’t we supposed to buy reviews and use forbidden keywords? We’re supposed to be good stewards? This is just getting the most from our books, right? Besides everyone else is doing it. 

Oof.

Ug.

Sigh.

Please, don’t cheat. Please don’t game the system. Please don’t make a hundred little sacrifices of your integrity for the sake of an extra sale and tell yourself that everyone is doing it, your book’s message is doing more good than the rules are doing, or you need the money.