We PROMOTE Fantasy/Sci-Fi Writers/Authors discussion

Uhm...Hi.

I'm not sure if anyone here is going to respect me enough to answer the questions I have, but here goes.

Today is part of the Goodreads' Official Sci-Fi/Fantasy Week!

1: I am a self-published Indie author. Can someone like me become notable enough to be featured by Goodreads on a page like the one I mention above?
2: Is it even possible for someone like me to become a notable author at all? If so, how does one accomplish this?
3: On this note, can any almost virtually unknown author or any self-published author become a best-selling author?

Someone please, please tell me now: Is there something I don't know about all this? (Please pardon the song-pun, okay?)

There is a whole community of self-published authors who are best sellers and making six figure incomes. There is a learning curve. Start here.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/20Boo...

L.E. wrote: "There is a whole community of self-published authors who are best sellers and making six figure incomes. There is a learning curve. Start here.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/20Boo..."

Thanks for the recommendation, but it sounds very much like this group won't benefit me or any other unknown Indie authors at all! Just look at this highly-scary page of no's:

Quote: "02 NO!
- No self-promotion
- No name calling
- No links in posts (without prior admin approval)
- No talk of reviews
- No denigrating the distributors (Amazon is not the enemy)
- No craft unless admin approved (no asking for book cover input, blurb input, or unique tropes/language related to your genre)
- No polls, no petitions
- No off-topic posts (focus on the business of self-publishing)
- No requesting PMs from members/No unsolicited PMs
- No prescriptivism – there are infinite routes up the mountain of success"

Seriously, how is a self-published Indie author like me supposed to make any headway at all if he or she cannot even ask for a book review or any kind of input whatsoever?

No offense, and again, your help is appreciated. But every time I see a whole bunch of DON'T-rules like this, it usually only serves to scare me away from joining the group. Sorry.

Fair enough. Everyone's path is different. As a self-published author I have to say, my way may not be another author's way but we all start out in the same place. I'm not a salesman and I can only tell you that I was self-publishing long before I found this site still I learned a lot, especially about marketing. Some of the authors who frequent the site are best selling authors with a tremendous body of work. Best if luck, my friend.

PS. I am a BIG proponent of self-publishing and I personally know you can make a good living from it if you keep at it.

Dear L.E.

You have my thanks for the helpful suggestions and encouragement. But now, I have still yet more questions and a couple of comments or more. I'll start off by stating this: I'd be extremely lucky if I sold more than 50 copies of all the novellas and novels I wrote and published, from 2014 up until this date. Sadly, I doubt I've even sold close to 100 copies in a period of some 5 years, let alone between 5,000 and 10,000 units in one week! Yup...As far as this and book reviews (Of which I have only a little over 50 on Goodreads), I am nothing more than a poor, luckless author, who's not going to give up this dream. Now, this leads me to ask you my questions as follows...

1: How many copies of your works have you managed to sell? 2: How long did you have to wait and work to accomplish those feats? 3: On the note of having audiobooks, I've already begun to stride on down this route. However, I'd like to know just what kind of resources and people-connections I'd have to have if I instead wanted to convert my series in to say...A graphic-novel series? 4: Should I try and find local book clubs to present my writings to? If so, how and where can I find them?

I'm sorry for bombarding you with more questions, like this. But since I am trying to take being a self-published Indie author more seriously, I consider this to be another learning experience for me.

Thanks again for the responses and such. Ta-Ta for now! o/