Building a Brand

Harder than writing any book, in my opinion, is building a brand as an indie author. The easiest way to describe this is to start by listing what I call ‘my' downside:

• I am not a trained writer
• I don't have an agent or publishing house in my corner
• I don't have a lot of money to pay for an editor or other professional services 
• I do not have a staff of fact-checkers
• I am not a master of the English language
• I acknowledge that my grammar sucks
• I can't spell to save my life, or yours
• I do not have an existing audience for my work

The upside (Updated 8-7-19):

• I love to write, first and foremost
• I now have a small handful of regular readers
• I've sold tens of books
• I'm only months away from self-publishing book six in the 'Tony Rains Novel Series'
• I don't need an agent or a publisher to self-publish my work
• I'm a fan of @AmazonKDP
• I'm now working on the cheap with a freelance editor
• I am a devoted ‘Grammarly’ user 
• I do my research on the web to support a storyline
• I use this blog to take my brand to the masses
• I have a Twitter account - @TonyRainsNovels
• I often fall back on ‘I love to write’ when all else fails