{"id":105,"date":"2017-07-31T11:14:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T15:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racheldelafuente.com\/blog\/?p=105"},"modified":"2021-03-24T15:49:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T19:49:51","slug":"spotlight-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racheldelafuente.com\/blog\/spotlight-intro\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Soon: Author Spotlight Series"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It can be tough for indie authors to get their work out there. We\u2019re individual people, sometimes with small publishers, and we can\u2019t do what the huge publishing houses do. Our resources are finite, and, many times, quite minimal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Based off of the pool of indie authors I interact with (which is, admittedly, small in comparison to the number of indie authors in the US alone), many of us understand and acknowledge that we aren\u2019t really each other\u2019s competition. There are enough readers out there for everyone, and we can be allies. \u00a0We can help each other.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve all been there (or are there). Spending every scrap of spare time posting to social media, attending events, and coming up with ways to reach new readers, in order to share a story that we love enough to put forth all this effort. It\u2019s a full-time job, usually on top of our full-time day job.<\/span><\/p>\n

So we have each other\u2019s backs. We share and retweet other indie author posts; we pimp each other\u2019s books; we try, whenever possible, to help each other out, because we understand.<\/span><\/p>\n

In that vein of cooperation, collaboration, and alliance, I\u2019m starting an author spotlight series. It\u2019s hardly the first of its kind, nor will it be the last, but I\u2019m trying to make it unique, or at least a bit different. <\/span><\/p>\n

The spotlights will be short, 5-8 questions, usually. I\u2019ve provided the first and last question to every author, but the middle three-six, each author gets to choose their favorite 1 or 2 questions from 3 groups of 10. This means that each spotlight will feature a set of questions unique to the author, so be sure to take a look at them all.<\/span><\/p>\n

And these won\u2019t just be shameless plugs for books. Here\u2019s a sneak peek of some of the questions:<\/span><\/p>\n