The Evolving Indie Industry & Standing Out in the Pile with JA Konrath and Barry Eisler
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Barry and Joe each host incredibly popular and informative blogs that are a must for every indie to frequent! domain extensions
Thanks for coming! 🙂
Many thanks to Joe for talking up BookSends, formerly BookBlast. We’re working hard to gain readers and provide the best value to authors we can!
I greatly enjoyed reading the chat this morning, and thank you so much for the giveaway. I can’t wait to dig in. Thank you much! 🙂
This was a great session and I wish I could’ve participated in it live. It’s so hard to stay above the grain to get noticed in this game but hey, one day and one book at a time. I guess we all love a challenge.
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