Starting an Online Community — One Honest Indie

Hi everyone. Well, I’ve been thinking for some time about how to create a space for people together, for people to get together outside of Facebook because I don’t like Facebook and I’m looking for alternatives. And I found one that I think might be nice to use, a place where writers could get together and share ideas about marketing or self-publishing or post their courses, things like that. A place where you can be visible with other authors. And I think this could be particularly helpful if you’re not Amazon exclusive and you’re not running deals all the time and writing five or 10 books a year or whatever it takes these days.

I want to create a place that focuses on quality over sheer quantity. So part of that is getting into the nuts and bolts of selling direct. That’s something I would really like to explore. And another thing I’d like to explore is the idea of getting groups of people together to put together anthologies. Anthologies are great. You get your work out there along with other authors. It’s like cross-promotion and sharing your work at the same time. So it’s like a no-lose…