#15. This is a switch.
Can you imagine agents/publishers chasing after you to offer you a book deal? This
really does happen. If you have never heard of international bestselling author
Bella Andre, my first question is, where have you been? Before I met this indie
author at RWA, I read about her success. She brings in $20,000 a month—no
exaggeration. This woman is so bad that
she had licensed the rights to a publisher to her print books while retaining
her eBook rights, which garner hundreds of reviews. “Wow.”
Another super star (my
description only, she would deny it) is NYT bestselling author Colleen Hoover
who I met this past weekend at Penned Con. She did the exact same thing with
one of her eBooks, licensing her rights on a print book. My mouth dropped and
my eyes blurred when I saw several of her books with 1,000 plus reviews.
Really? I thought only James Patterson and a handful of others hit the 1,000
and 2,000 reviews mark. I’m still trying to get to one-hundred on one of my
eleven novels and twelve novellas. Okay, what is their secret? Write a good
book, build a street team and promote. Colleen told me when she was an indie
author; she is now a hybrid (traditionally published and self-published), the
publishers came after her because her eBooks were doing so well, which
basically meant, she had a fan base that posted reviews. These two are proof indie
authors can be a force to reckon with.
COMING SOON 
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