Amazon recently invited us to write about our lives as impartial, or indie, authors. To be truthful, they prolonged the invitation to all indie authors whose work is self-revealed by way of KDP, or Kindle Direct Publishing, and via CreateSpace, Amazon’s print publishing arm. However, vain as we are, we prefer to consider it an exclusive invitation. Like most indie authors, we need little excuse to talk about our work, or ourselves for that matter, so right here goes. We are Lance and James Morcan, a new Zealand father-and-son writing crew. Lance resides in New Zealand whereas James is predicated in Sydney, Australia. Together, we’ve co-authored and self-published more than 20 novels and non-fiction books - all under the banner of our publishing firm Sterling Gate Books and all unique to Amazon. Lance and James…the Morcan writing group. We're additionally screenwriters and have put a number of adaptations of our novels into improvement as feature films with our production company Morcan Motion Pictures.  This w as creat᠎ed wi th t he  help　of GSA C᠎ontent G᠎en er at​or Dem​over si᠎on .

These include our worldwide thrillers Silent Fear and The Ninth Orphan, and our historical adventures Fiji, White Spirit and Into the Americas. Our different novels comprise The Orphan Factory, The Orphan Uprising and World Odyssey. Screenplay adaptations of those are additionally planned. Our journeys as indie authors began over a decade ago when we co-wrote our first novels, The Ninth Orphan and Fiji. After receiving countless rejections from London and New York publishers, we decided to place our destiny into our personal fingers and type our own publishing firm. That was in 2011, and it was a wise move. We advocate this course of action to all authors who could also be struggling to get seen. We spent months researching the most effective on-line publishing platform for our work. After contemplating all the options, we arrived at the resounding conclusion there was, and is, just one platform price contemplating - and that’s Amazon. Why? Well, try Amazon’s world market share for starters.

Its book marketing platform is unrivaled. They’ve cornered the self-publishing market. Not satisfied? Compare Amazon and its DIY print enterprise CreateSpace with other major players corresponding to Lulu, Smashwords, AuthorHouse and Blurb. And then there’s Amazon’s KDP Select (KDPS), which, in a nutshell, free books requires exclusivity of authors for his or her eBooks. We opted to decide to KDPS. It’s a decision we’ve never regretted. The global reach, increased royalties, Kindle Countdown Deals, free books promotions and commissions for guide borrows (by way of Kindle Unlimited) have been what most attracted us. However, the complete advantages of enrolling with KDPS are too many to record here. If you’re involved, Google "benefits of KDP Select" and scan a few of the 1,000 plus entries. Our first expertise with a Kindle ebook set the pattern for us. Writing and brainstorming ideas some 1300 miles apart, separated as we are by the Tasman Sea, aka the Ditch, does present its issues even in this trendy era.  This has ᠎been cre​at᠎ed ᠎with GSA C��ontent Gen᠎er ator  Dem᠎over si on.

Unreliable Skype connections, mislaid emails and often faulty WattsApp telephone conferences apart, we get by. After which there’s the inevitable inventive differences. These are accentuated no doubt by the father-son relationship and by the technology hole. However, we view these variations as strengths relatively than weaknesses. We're our own hardest critics