{"id":1336,"date":"2018-06-28T17:18:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T06:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2018-06-28T17:18:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T06:18:47","slug":"comic-con-author-profile-felix-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/articles\/2018\/06\/28\/1336\/comic-con-author-profile-felix-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic-Con author profile: Felix Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Describe your latest book in under 50 words.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My latest book is <a href=\"http:\/\/felixlong.co.uk\/to-conquer-heaven\/\"><em>To Conquer Heaven<\/em><\/a>. It follows Jeremy Wang, who has found a clue to the location of the lost tomb of the first emperor of China, and a lost treasure more amazing than King Tutankhamun&#8217;s tomb. There&#8217;s just one problem: the emperor was a powerful Taoist sorcerer &#8230; and he is not quite dead.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why self-publish?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I made a few mistakes in my pursuit of the traditional publishing model and I refused to take no for an answer. Having said that, I now know several traditionally published authors who are seriously considering the self-publishing model to pursue the combination of artistic freedom and financial control that it affords.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What year did you start and where are you based?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I started in 2017 and I am based in Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What will you publish next?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Habnab<\/em> will be out in October 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us more about the Digital Honesty Box and why you think it works.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are three main reasons why people don&#8217;t pay for ebooks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They think authors are rich.<\/li>\n<li>They think ebooks cost nothing to produce.<\/li>\n<li>We don&#8217;t ask them to.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I invented the Digital Honesty Box. It includes a PayPal widget on my website, a link in my book to the widget, and a request for payment using nudge psychology to get people to pay for it.<\/p>\n<p>And it works! Using a Digital Honesty Box allows me to capture a secondary reading market and monetise referrals from fans.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone should use a Digital Honesty Box and a direct request to their readership to pay for the ebook. In that request you must dismiss as false your readers&#8217; reasons for not doing so. If everyone pointed out that authors make a third of minimum wage and paid several thousand dollars to produce each book, more people would be willing to pay for them. Drop me a line at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emilyforemphasis.com\">http:\/\/www.emilyforemphasis.com<\/a> to find out more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Describe your latest book in under 50 words. My latest book is To Conquer Heaven. It follows Jeremy Wang, who has found a clue to the location of the lost tomb of the first emperor of China, and a lost treasure more amazing than King Tutankhamun&#8217;s tomb. There&#8217;s just one problem: the emperor was a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[49],"class_list":{"0":"post-1336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newsletter-features","7":"tag-comic-con-author-spotlight"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}