Now on to some serious wordpreneur stuff.

While doing my regular rounds this past week through various online forums for indie authors, I saw no less than five rants — well, whines really — about the authors’ failure at selling any of their books.

Nothing unusual about that kind of whining. What caught my attention this time, however, was this:  Every single one insinuated Amazon was at fault and to blame for their inability to sell their stuff.

Wha?

All those other competing authors and their books and marketing activity had nothing to do with the fails, I guess.

Nor did those crappy homemade covers, those poorly written blurbs, those inadequate keyword selections, yada yada.

One guy even threatened ultimatum-style to quit the indie authoring game. Um, OK dude, we’re devastated.

I’m not really sure where I’m going with this observation — I’m still quite firmly planted in the “WTF people?” head-shaking stage — probably in awe of all that oozing entitlement.

Is it more info you need? There’s no shortage of that, as you can see in every Wordpreneur Reader issue. Or maybe you just like things handed to you. I think I’ll vote for the latter.

Well quit it. We’re all in the same boat. That “I can’t afford it” excuse when someone points out your covers suck and your work needs professional editing? That doesn’t fly either. Skip Starbucks every now and then like many of the other authors do. Or whatever. No excuses, Grasshopper — it’s all on you.

Indie stands for independent, you know that, right?

Well, on that pleasant note, let’s do some reading. Have fun!

— EES