It is a real great freedom and power to be an
indie author or a Self-published author.
Yea, being an indie is truly great, promising,
and rewarding because you are the Author,
Publisher, and Promoter. With the wonderful
tools at your disposal in your dashboard through your distributors website, you can start slowly and steadily to make your book Visible, Discoverable, and Desirable to readers Globally.

To become an indie author means to self publish your manuscript as an eBook through some global platforms.

Writing a series book remains one of the best marketing strategies ever devised in the publishing industry!

It is good you start off your independent publishing career exclusively with Amazon as it has the highest share of international eBook market (about 60%). This gives you good visibility through its Kindle Select program and hence building up following. Once you get to understand the game, you can then go wide with some of your books.

Building an author platform is a good marketing strategy. This platform can include the following bits and many others: Blog or Website, Facebook Page, Facebook group, Twitter handle, Medium, Goodreads, and Kboards profile.

It is good you carry out research on Amazon best selling books and genre so that you can write to market demand and fast track your independent publishing success.

Now is the time to take that bold step and launch your publishing career. This is because you can not know all you need to know about independent publishing before you finally or reluctantly take that step.

The basic required skills are Writing, and Editing. This is because if you can at least do the first editing and proofreading of your manuscript, it greatly reduces your publishing expenses. In fact, you can fully do the complete editing of your manuscript if your writing is good from the start.

So, now is the time to take the bull by the horns and fulfill your dream of becoming a published author.

If you want to know what Plotting is in writing, read what authors are saying about it on KBoards.
http://www.kboards.com/index.php/topic,249980.0.html

Always properly edit and proofread your manuscript before you publish it. This will give it better a performance in sales and reviews.