Our mission at Indie Writers Support is to expose talented writers, either self-published to not, to a mass of book readers. To upgrade your account go to http://indiewritersupport.com/main/authorization/renew. 

As of May 2016, Indie Writers Support has become a donation functioning media, meaning that you would have to make a monthly, or permanent donation in order to fully access all of our networking features, including the newly added ones. While our website is still viewable, some of the internal features have been restricted to paid-subscription only.

We have created many GATEWAYS for Indie authors to promote and showcase their books online and offline, through the usage of many networking programs like K-Dashboard (accessible by permanent members only), Publishing Connections (now added alongside your profile), Desktop Marketing, Facebook Advertising, and many others that'd be reveal in the upcoming weeks. All of these services, along with your review sites and web-pages would be automatically promoted to new readers everyday via our networking algorithms once you have upgraded your Indie Writers Support account. 

Permanent members would have the pleasure of having their very own profile page remodel by our developers, to their full satisfaction

In our upcoming tutorials - The Bestseller's Training Courses - we will teach you how to dominate the book business by unraveling (and demonstrating) the proper usage of the resourceful subjects listed below, and much more. We have acquired the help of many experts for this yearlong courses.

1. Using Stripe & Twitter integration to become a POD publisher / author.
2. LinkedIn Marketing for Authors.
3. Maximizing your Kirkus Review.
4. Literary Agents, who they are, and their contacts.
5. IndieBound to the rescue - getting your books shelved in bookshops nationwide.
6. Crowdsourcing - organizing a successful book-signing event.
7. Createspace vs. IngramSpark vs. NookPress, which is best at what.
8. Understanding the basics of Metadata, for publishers, and Indie authors.
9. Auctioning your autographed books, the best way.
10. Creating sampling pages for readers, the best methods.
11. Twitter and tweeting to increase book revenues and author's exposure.
12. How to create your audiobooks, and the best markets for them.
13. Harnessing the power of Google+ media for authors.
14. The many tricks of SEO boasting for authors.
15. Styling the story's overview on your Amazon book-page, used by NYT bestsellers.
16. BISAC Codes; what authors and publishers need to know.
17. Using Goodreads media to attract daily readers.
18. Pinterest best use for authors.
19. Arranging a book-reading appearance at your local library, how to.
20. Podcasting, finding your airwave audiences, best methods
21. The many facets of Amazon, and their functions for writers.

• and much more. A total of 279 courses. Starting next week.

These subjects would be exclusively accessible by Upgraded Members only. To partaken, all you'll have to do is login.

To find out what category of membership you currently belong to, check out the list below.

• Tier #1 - Free Membership: Ability to read blogs, receive newsletters, and access the public database of Indie Writers Support website. 

• Tier #2 - Monthly Membership: Ability to login, post discussions, publish blogs, form groups, edit your profile, schedule public events, make friends, chat etc. Plus full abilities of Tier #1.

• Tier #3 - Premium Membership: Full enrollment to receive PDF tutorial documents, writing software, editing software, marketing software, video software, graphic design software, article distribution software, social media advertising software, pinging & indexing software, publishing software etc. Must also be a Tier #2 member.

• Tier #4 - Dollar Promo Membership: Full enrollment into our monthly promotions via newsletter marketing and other networking channels like Amazon Book Clubs, ReadersBooks.info, and many others. Must be a tier #2 member.

• Tier #5 - Permanent Members: Entitled to the full abilities and enrollments of Tier #1, 2, 3, and 4. Plus admittance in the Bestsellers Program, K-Dashboard, Facebook advertising, Desktop marketing, and many others. Your Indie Writers Support profile page will also be upgraded and optimize by our web developers to reach your satisfaction. A one-time $250 lifetime membership payment.

INFORMATION ABOUT THE BESTSELLERS PROGRAM; www.readersbooks.info/bsp.

How to upload your book to I.W.S.

If you are looking to generate more visibility for your book, you may also add the book cover to ReadersBooks.info for the thousands of book lovers that visits everyday.

If you are willing to upload your book cover onto the website, make sure that it is sized at 200 width & 250 height. If you need help re-sizing your book cover, go to www.pixlr.com/editor and click on the 'image' menu to edit the size.
After your book cover is correctly formatted to the 200x250 px and saved on your computer, then you may go here http://bit.ly/1mO3eRi  to add your book according to its category. Go to this website to watch the instructional video; http://on.fb.me/1jjsGgI

We will be driving 100,000 weekly visitors to this website all year long, so don't miss out on the chance to showcase your talent in this open-for-all-platform.

BIOGRAPHY: MAYNARD SIMS www.maynard-sims.com

 Supernatural novels, Shelter, Demon Eyes, Nightmare City, and the three Department 18 books (www.dept18.com) Black Cathedral, Night Souls, and The Eighth Witch, have been published mass market and eBook in the USA. Samhain have published a further standalone supernatural novel, Stronghold, in 2013, and the fourth Department 18 book, A Plague Of Echoes, is for 2014. Their first four novels have been purchased by Amazon Publishing. They have completed a standalone ghost story, Stillwater, and are working on Department 18 book 5.

 Thrillers include an adventure thriller, Dark Of The Sun, which is a 2013 publication and has its own website www.lenmaynard.co.uk . Falling Apart At The Edges, a crime thriller, Through The Sad Heart, an action thriller, Let Death Begin, a mystery thriller, are completed, and they are working on the Dark Of The Sun sequel.  

 They have written screenplays based on the first two Department 18 books, The Eighth Witch, and some of their ghost stories. They have just completed an original, commissioned screenplay. They are working on a commissioned mainstream story.

 Collections include, Shadows At Midnight, 1979 and 1999 (revised and enlarged), Echoes Of Darkness, 2000, Incantations, 2002, two retrospective collections of their stories, essays and interviews, The Secret Geography Of Nightmare and Selling Dark Miracles, both 2002, Falling Into Heaven in 2004, The Odd Ghosts, 2011, and Flame And Other Enigmatic Tales, and A Haunting Of Ghosts, both 2012.  

 Novellas, Moths, The Hidden Language Of Demons, The Seminar, and Double Act, have been published in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2007 respectively. His Other Son, a novella, is completed.

 Numerous stories have been published in a variety of anthologies and magazines, including the Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, the anthology, Strange Tales, which won the World Fantasy Award 2004 and the Del Rey anthology, The Children Of Cthulhu.

 They worked as editors on the first seven volumes of Darkness Rising, and the two annual Darkness Rising anthologies. They co-edited and published F20 with The British Fantasy Society. As editors/publishers they ran Enigmatic Press in the UK, which produced Enigmatic Tales, and its sister titles. They wrote essays for the Mark Chadbourn website At The World’s End.

 Email contact can be made at Mick@micksims.f9.co.uk or len@lenmaynard.co.uk

3 Cutlers Close, St Michaels Mead, Bishops Stortford, Herts, CM23 4FW, England 

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LinkedIn under Maynard Sims

Twitter on @micksims

Google+ as Maynard Sims           

KindleGen for Publishers 

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KindleGen is a command line tool which enables publishers to work in an automated environment with a variety of source content including HTML, XHTML or EPUB. KindleGen converts this source content to a single file which supports both KF8 and Mobi formats enabling publishers to create great-looking books that work on all Kindle devices and apps.

If you would like to convert your Microsoft Word document, we recommend using this software 

KindleGen is officially supported by Amazon to convert files to the Kindle format. We recommend you use KindleGen to create content that is compatible with all Kindle devices and apps. Files created with third-party software may not work properly on current or future Kindle devices and apps.

Highlights of KindleGen functionality

Support for all KF8 functionality
Generates a single file supporting both KF8 and Mobi format
Support for multiple source formats including HTML, XHTML and EPUB
To convert your Ms Word docs to a perfect kindle format use this application.

System Requirements
Windows XP, Vista or 7

Hello, my name is David and I'm an author. If that sounds like the introduction of someone attending a meeting of the AA then that's how being an author feels sometimes. An addiction that you feel warrants a confession.

I have written and self published Four books to date.

My Barsetshire Diary  

The Queen's Envoy 

More Barsetshire Diary 

                                             The first three books are concerned with the life of a member of the gentry in the small village he's chosen to live in. The cat rules his life while his wife and daughter rule his wallet.

In the second book we visit him at his job accepted along with the title he inherited, that of Envoy to HM Government but instantly deniable. Since our hero is at a loss where women are concerned we see how he copes when faced with saving the Government some embarrassment but females are desperate to show their thanks. Is a stiff upper lip enough to save him? 

The first and third books take place after he's retired from active service but is put to work by the promises made on his behalf by his wife. See how he copes with judging the jam making competition when someone is determined to win at any price.

The fourth book is called Memoirs of a Superior and was dictated by Oscar the cat, or Superior as they like to be called. He wanted to share his personal adventures but also pass his wisdom on to kittens about how to control us Longlegs so that we serve the Superiors properly. I suggest any Longlegs buying this keep it out of sight. If your Superior reads it I won't be responsible for the consequences.

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