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Guest Post: Connie Almony Solves Problems for Indie Authors & Readers of Christian Fiction

06 Monday Oct 2014

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headshot1 (1)Hi, my name is Connie Almony and I am a creative problem solver. If you give me a problem that should be solved, I will shake inside until it is. That’s just how my brain works, and THAT’s why I created the Indie Christian Fiction Search site—Ickfuss (ICFS) to its friends. I saw a problem and I had to solve it.

The Problem …

What was the problem, you ask? Well, there were a few.

1) Avid readers needed to find loads of books that would feed their insatiable need and target their interests, all without breaking the bank.

2) Christian readers needed to find a greater breadth of story, not often available through traditionally published books, while being within a biblical framework.

3) Christian readers needed extra information—that which is often missing from online retailers—before making the decision to buy.

4) Readers needed a way to search through lots of material that is easy, non-cumbersome and directs them right to books that interest them through search criteria and scrolling mechanisms that allow the reader to sift quickly through blurb excerpts.

Why were these my problems to solve? Well, because I knew it could be done, and yet no one was doing it.

The Focus …

Why focus on indie fiction, you ask? … (Sigh) … My, but you’re an inquisitive group!

I haven’t always been an ardent supporter of indie fiction. I believe an author is well served when many eyes see her work before it is published. I also believe any product is best when it is formed by a group of people using their unique gifts (ie. The Body of Christ). So Indie always looked like someone who just didn’t want to play by the rules. (God often humbles me when I get too opinionated). I worried the work would suffer for it. But then the new era of indie publishing steam-rolled into being. A world of critique partners, beta readers, freelance editors and cover artists, Facebook writers’ groups, search engines and social media platforms. Not to mention the low cost (I mean, how much lower than $0 can you get) of uploading your ebook to an online retailer. All these factors increased the ability to create a better quality book with a smaller investment.

The game has changed, and so has the breadth and quality of fiction.

I didn’t mean to be an indie author myself. I sort of got conned into it by my critique partner, Mildred Colvin, and discovered there is a world of fiction out there that is feeding a need not met by the traditional houses. I have found a plethora of Christian fiction which has been deemed unsellable by publishers for a variety of reasons, be they time period (medieval), character choices (Viking, pirate, multi-cultural), settings (universities, cities, space) or subject matter (mistresses, drug addiction), and discovered worlds like the one in which I live, replete with sinners in need of a Savior. Additionally, I discovered that many of my favorite authors, when given the chance to write from their hearts instead of a marketing team’s idea of what “the public” wants, are EVEN BETTER when writing this way. Yes, you read that right—EVEN BETTER. And as an avid reader, indie fiction is a lot less traumatic to my credit card.

Quality of Writing or Marketing Guts?

So what’s not to like?

I’ll tell you what? Many are concerned that because indie authors have not been vetted by the process of acquiring an agent or catching the eye of an editor, their work is not as good. The truth is I STILL suggest authors go through this process and hone their craft, before making the jump. But there is a point where the author realizes it’s not the craft, but the perception of the general marketplace that is holding him back from publication. Yes, it is nice to have someone “important” like you, but just because that someone doesn’t like you, doesn’t mean the rest of the world must ignore you as well. Many novels are rejected because the theme of their work has not been tested in the marketplace. However, in these tough times of the publishing industry it is likely nothing new will be tested until someone has the guts to do so. Therefore, lots of extraordinary ideas fall by the wayside.

Not with indie!

With indie publishing the READER is the gatekeeper, not the executive, nor the marketing team—honest-to-goodness readers who have a love for the written word, and a great story, just like you do. Independent authors often offer early books cheap (and even free) so YOU, the reader, can get a sense of who they are and what they write. Then YOU can decide whether or not you want to continue reading them.

It’s just a matter of finding this new breed of author.

Sifting Through the Muck …

But there is another problem. Traditional Christian publishing didn’t just vet for quality, it also vetted for biblical content. If you’ve ever gone “church shopping” in a very secular area (as I have) and you’ve seen the variety of agenda’s that come from groups that label themselves “Christian,” you will know not all people wearing that moniker promote the same sort of faith. In fact, in one of our independent author Facebook discussions, one of our members found a “Christian” group writing very decadent—and painful—forms of erotica. In these gate-keeper-less times, someone needs to step up and help us wade through the muck. Indie Christian Fiction Search (ICFS) is designed, asking the author to ensure a level of standard outlined in its Statement of Faith and Content guidelines, while informing the reader so he or she can make a decision as to whether or not the book is right for them. I also hope readers will return to ICFS to comment on books they found either exceptionally inspiring or not quite their cup of tea—respectfully, of course. Again, the reader is King here!

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Finding the Right Books for You…

So now readers will have access to information on a larger breadth of biblically-centered fiction in one place. The next trick is how to search through all the titles to find the one for you.

This is the fun part!

I had a vision from God. Or at least, my mind kept playing images of an old template I’d used for my blog and the many “views” it allowed that would make a quick search of a large amount of material very easy. So I decided to try it out by posting a bunch of friends’ books to the site. I’d been pondering how to do this because, frankly, I find most book retailer sites cumbersome and less fine-tuned to my needs, requiring lots of clicks into things I eventually have no use for. The largest online book retailer comes close, but does not allow for a page full of blurbs under search criteria ready to be scanned. It only gives a page of book titles, cover art and price. With Indie Christian Fiction Search (ICFS), you can plug in search criteria and watch the cover art float across the page.

Sidebar View--edIt’s really cool :o)!!!

Then you can change the “view” of the site and scroll through book blurbs selected by genre or search criteria and pick through the ones that look good to you. There are a number of ways to do this. It’s just a matter of finding the one view that works best for you.

So if you are an independent Christian fiction author and would like to have your novel listed on Indie Christian Fiction Search (ICFS), please enter the site, read through the Statement of Faith and Author Guidelines, and if it’s a good fit—submit. Please review the guidelines each time, as they may change. I will be adjusting things to streamline the site’s functionality.

Dynamic Views

If you are a READER, looking for something reasonably priced and potentially unique, please check out the “How to Use This Site” page and see how much fun a book search can be.

Try out all the views and feel free to tell me what works best for you. Indie Christian Fiction Search (ICFS) will be growing vastly over the next few months so make sure you drop by again. There is also a newsletter you can sign up for that will include links to new titles, and hot-picks, keeping you regularly informed of the latest in indie Christian fiction. I promise, it will not be sent out more often than quarterly. And don’t forget to come back and let us know what you think about the books you read. Remember, YOU are the gatekeeper. YOU have the power. Use it wisely ;o).

Sign up for the newsletter NOW and be entered to win a $20 Amazon gift card. The winner will be announced on November 1, 2014.

Connie Almony is trained as a mental health therapist and likes to mix a little fun with the serious stuff of life. She was a 2012 semi-finalist in the Genesis Contest for Women’s Fiction and was awarded an Honorable Mention in the Winter 2012 WOW Flash Fiction Contest. Her newest release, At the Edge of a Dark Forest, is a modern-day re-telling of Beauty and the Beast about a war-vet, amputee struggling with PTSD.

You can find Connie on the web at ConnieAlmony.com, writing book reviews for Jesus Freak Hideout, and hosting the following blogs: InfiniteCharacters.com, IndieChristianFictionSearch.Blogspot.com, and LivingtheBodyofChrist.Blogspot.com.

You can also meet her on the following social media outlets:

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So Much News! So Much FUN!

01 Tuesday Jul 2014

Posted by Holly Michael in Book Marketing, Books, Christianity, India, India's Crown, Writing

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To all of my regular followers,

I’d be very pleased and grateful if you would hop over to a new blog that my friend Caryl McAdoo and I just launched: www.indiascrown.com

INDIA’S CROWN’S (India’s Crown in Christian Literature Excellence) objective is to join Christian American authors with Christian readers from India. The premier resource for Christian Fiction across India, India’s Crown in Christian Literature Excellence (ICICLE), offers book reviews, author interviews, and free giveaways. It provides the opportunity for discriminating readers to not only read the best in Christian Fiction/clean reads, but also to chat with the authors they love to read, with Christ being the common denominator.

We will have a new post each week to introduce Christian or “clean” reads to this fast growing market of Christian readers in India.

I will continue to blog here on http://www.writingstraight.com as regular as possible. Thanks for supporting Caryl and me in this endeavor. And while you’re at http://www.indiascrown.com, please like our facebook page and connect with us on twitter.

Thank you!

PS: CROOKED LINES, my first novel, is going to be released in about thirty days!!!!! More news to come!

Our first blog post at Indiascrown.com:

VOW UNBROKEN, A Texas Romance.

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Joining East to West: Readers with Authors in Growing Christian Market

30 Monday Jun 2014

Posted by Holly Michael in Best Web Sites for Writers, Book Marketing, Books, Christianity, India, Writing

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More Christians in India than ever before have their heads bowed low these days. Praying? Maybe, but also reading on their smart phones and tablets. The popularity of E-readers and apps for enjoying books on smart phones and tablets has increased readership in India, especially in larger cities and among college students.

After researching and speaking with Christian pastors in India, authors, and a barrage of voracious book lovers, it became clear that excellent Christian literature and clean fiction is in huge demand in the East.

“People from India want to read and learn about the Western world,” says Shilpa Joshi, a Christian from Bangalore. “We want to explore places like Texas and reading about these places in novels takes us there, but I rarely come across such books.”

During a visit to India last year, browsing large Christian bookstores, I found mostly self-help and spiritual non-fiction books written mainly by Indian authors. I did come across a few nonfiction titles by big names such as Joyce Meyer and Joel Olsteen, but found almost zero Christian novels.

Renjit Varghese, a Christian from Kerala, South India lives in Kansas City now. He says that readership is growing among Indians due to the lower cost of ebooks. “But Christian books are difficult to find in India,” says Varghese. “Even more rare is fiction written by American authors. “When I go back home to Kerala, I take books back with me for my family.”

Seeing the need to connect Christian authors in the West with readers in the East, Authors Caryl McAdoo and I (Both members of American Christian Fiction Writers – AFCW) began a website: www.indiascrown.com. The full name of this premier site is India’s Crown in Christian Literature Excellence (ICICLE). symbolice

The website will feature American Christian authors with books marketed in India through Amazon and other sources. Each author featured will also give away a copy of their book to a reader from India.

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“ICICLE is a place where authors and readers can also connect,” Caryl Mcadoo, Author of Vow Unbroken, reiterated. “It surprised me to discover a few years ago that people all over the world love Texas. My historical Christian romance—reviewers have told me I should add western adventure to my genre—Vow Unbroken is set in 1832 Texas, so I am excited about the untapped market in India. And while it’s nice to sell more books, I’m more excited with the aspect of meeting Indian Christians and making friends across the ocean. With Christ in common, we can minister to one another and see that God is doing wonderful things in other places.”

So….Caryl and I are off and running on a well-thought out and massive campaign to bring awareness of www.indiascrown.com to India to fill this niche with literary minded Christians working on both sides of the ocean. It is time now to welcome authors to contact us about promoting their book. We are filling our calendars now. We are thrilled to be wide open to Indy titles, but do want to read them ahead of time to ensure the excellence in Christian Literature we advertise.

It is this assurance that will catapult India’s Crown into the organization we believe God wants it to be. Visit the site and contact us with any questions.

Get ready Christian authors in the US! Indian readers want your books! And what a platform God has given us to spread the Gospel through our Christian Fiction.

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A Party x 2!

28 Saturday Jun 2014

Posted by Holly Michael in Book Marketing, Books, Christianity, Crooked Lines, India, Inspiration, Writing

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My novel, CROOKED LINES, will be launched August 3rd! Just a little more than thirty days from today. Woohoo! I’ll try to post something pithy every day about CROOKED LINES. Got lots going on to get ready for the launch, have another book due to my editor soon, a couple of book proposals to write, too.

Here’s TODAY’S FUN NEWS: Award-winning author Caryl McAdoo and I are, together, having a Cover Reveal Party! July 12th @ 3pm on Facebook.

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Gifts, prizes and loads of fun! Join us! Caryl’s novel, HEARTS STOLEN follows her first historical Christian romance novel, VOW UNBROKEN. My first novel, CROOKED LINES, is literary fiction. (More to come about it later). Come to the party for some fun, prizes, and to see our book covers. (I haven’t even seen mine yet…can’t wait!)!

 

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Monday Connections: Guest Author G.E. Johnson Gets Authors Connected to Readers

18 Monday Jun 2012

Posted by Holly Michael in Best Web Sites for Writers, Book Marketing, Guest Blogger, Monday's Connections, Writing

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Welcome to my blog, G.E. Johnson.  She’s got some great stuff to share regarding connections!

As a self-published author, I have been solely responsible for the marketing and advertising of my books and what a journey it has been! I started out not knowing the first thing about how or where to get my book noticed. I used the universal strategy of contacting friends and family first, but as anyone who has published a book can tell you, this pool of potential buyers dries up very quickly. Now, I must tell you that before I became an author, I had logged 16 years in the Business Finance arena and had taken part in multiple business start-ups so starting from scratch was not a new task to me.

However, marketing books was new to me and I wondered if the same rules for selling applied in the literary world as in other industries. Well, I found out over time that they do! Selling books is all about creating a product that has value and getting that product in front of the people who will buy into the value that you have created. Therein lies the purpose of this directory. “Get Connected: 101 Places to Promote Your Book” was designed with the author in mind, as an all-in-one resource for getting started on navigating the many avenues for promoting your book.

You’ll notice right away that this directory places a heavy emphasis on promotion outlets that are connected to Facebook and Twitter. Why is that? Well, let’s face it – social media is THE fastest, most efficient way to reach hundreds, and even thousands, of potential readers all at once and all in the same place. In “Get Connected: 101 Places to Promote Your Book”, I have listed 101 social media resources that are specifically designed to connect you with potential readers. The owners of these websites, Facebook pages, Facebook groups, etc. are all dedicated to promoting your books and helping you expand your readership!

I’ve already done the work of creating a starter list for you so now all you have to do is browse through and start getting connected! Are you a newly published author looking for places to start promoting? Are you an established author looking for new avenues of exposure? Are you an international author looking to expand your readership into other countries? There’s literally something in the directory for every author and for less than $0.10 per lead, the value far exceeds the investment. Get started today!

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G.E. is offering a 50% sale for a few days for authors on a shoestring budget!  Thanks G.E. I’m getting started right now!

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Machinima: The Next Big Thing in Book Marketing (Animated Book Trailers)

25 Saturday Feb 2012

Posted by Holly Michael in Book Marketing, Guest Blogger

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Guest Blogger: Rhonda Gill

Rest in peace, Oprah’s Book Club. Rest in peace, Borders Group, Inc. Facebook has higher audience numbers than ABC affiliates can count on their collective fingers and toes, and Amazon sells more e-books than hardcover and paperback combined.

This shift in the way people shop for, choose, and purchase books has a direct impact on how we, as writers, reach our audience. Potential buyers might Google the title or author, browse through electronic reviews, and make their decision based solely on how much they learn during a brief web-surfing expedition. Self-published authors and traditional publishing houses alike have scrambled for innovative marketing strategies to promote their books. Word of mouth has morphed into social networking, and websites like Goodreads have become the armchair literati’s go-to resource when it comes to sniffing out the current bestselling titles.

Holly asked me to write about a concept I’m developing, which is animated book trailers produced with professional 3D modeling tools. (Above left is a screenshot of characters in Amanda Borenstadt’s novel, Syzgy.)


(Left on Stonehaven, the machinima was created using The Sims 2. A straight-up machinima film)


The idea of book trailers is not new; quite a few novels already have them. But production costs for quality live-action film puts them out of reach for many authors. What’s unique about my approach is the technology—I don’t need a production team and a cast of actors. With no salaries to pay, I can keep pricing reasonable and still provide a new or self-published author with the same kind of marketing tool implemented by industry moguls.

Do I think animated trailers are appropriate for every novel? No, I don’t. I suspect an author will know instinctively if their work lends itself to 3D rendering. I’m a big fan of photorealism, which means I prefer to work with extremely lifelike media rather than cartoons. Debate rages about this within the animation universe; old school diehards avoid the dreaded “uncanny valley” on pain of death, and the newer generation of animators strives to leap clean over it. I belong the latter camp. It’s hard for me to take a character seriously if their ears (or nose or eyes) are bigger than their fist, or if they’re green or purple and have clown shoes for feet.

That being said, I discovered machinima as a result of my addiction to The Sims 2. Wikipedia defines machinima as “the use of real-time 3D computer graphics rendering engines to create a cinematic production.” In plain English, this means that machinimators hijack existing 3D content from video games and manipulate it to film little movies.

When I grasped the storytelling potential of this medium, I conducted an experiment. I adapted a dear friend’s novel-in-progress to a machinima film using The Sims 2 as my platform. What did I learn? The most important thing was how high interest soared among serious, even scholarly writers. I was stunned. But I also learned that no matter how cleverly one hacks the game files or how innovative the customization might be, Sims still look goofy to the uninitiated.

When considered alongside legal issues that could arise from commercial use of an EA Games product, the dodgy graphics generated by the Sims 2 game engine convinced me to research other options. The two dedicated machinima software applications on the market now are Moviestorm and Reallusion’s iClone. I prefer iClone because it is almost one hundred percent customizable, with photorealistic rendering and extremely lifelike animation capability, including a MoCap plugin that works with standard Xbox Kinect technology. To put it simply, in the right hands, iClone software can produce extremely realistic 3D animation. Plus, it’s royalty-free, which means I own all rights to any work product generated using that software.

Along with filming a project for other writers comes the need to create content specific for their characters and story. For this I use 3DS Max, which is sold by Autodesk. This software is as powerful and professional as it gets, which is good. It also has a nearly insurmountable learning curve, which is bad. Especially for someone like me, who has no formal training in digital arts.

Still, I’m already backlogged until September with requests for book trailers. So am I excited about this? You bet I am. Not only because of potential benefit to me, but because of the doors this might open for indie writers and publishers around the world. I can’t guarantee that animated book trailers are the Next Big Thing. But I do believe they’ll play a role in tomorrow’s publishing world.

I’m blogging about my experiences with iClone and 3ds Max at www.dolittlesaymuch.wordpress.com

For more information about machinima: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinima

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Its Always A Story With The Hendersons

For the Love of His Truth

A Christian Blog about Fundamental Biblical Facts

OneReality1

Meeting my family

RESEARCHING MY FAMILY TREE

i dwell in possibilities

encouragement for the journey

Deeper Roots

"You will take root below and bear fruit above" 2 Kings 19:30

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Empowering those to be beautiful...

musings by melina

Walk with a Christian homeschooling mother of 11

Mere Whispers

These are the mere edges of His ways, and how small a whisper we hear of Him . . .

A Glimpse of Starlight

finding the light beyond the clouds

MNBernard Books

Book Reviews & Literary Discussions

Spiritual Formation Center

AWAKENING TO THE DIVINE PRESENCE IN THE WORLD

Pushing a Feather

They say writing is just pushing a feather...

Be Holy!

Striving for holiness with a Catholic heart.

Daniel Ogle

Natalie D Wilson

Independent Author

Raspberryman

Welcome to Raspberryman. I hope you will find in these words and books inspiration, some entertainment, and ideas to find grace in the world today.

Elijah Stevens

Teacher, Mentor, Coach, Writer

the beautiful changes...

...in such kind ways...

Apprentice 2 Jesus

An Anglicostal Connecting to a Real World

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Catholic-without compromise

Advent Journey

Finding Christ each day

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