₦airaland Forum

badohemmy:
I am kinda interested, but it looks like you've got the 5 writers already.

Bad reason to give up.

OluwabuqqyYOLO:
Please, try to reason before you use the submit key. Don't say shît merely 'cos you have the privilege to. Who the heck are you to declare who's special and who's not? I've got followers, I am the one who follows no one. Always understand things before you state your opinions. And, as per the fire you mentioned, thank you.

I don't declrare special, the market does. On here on nairaland, the fans do. There are certain learned people who won't follow u unless u are that. I don't have time, sir, so I checked only for followers and scanned through your top post titles. i'm sorry if there is something I missed, but I promise, insult was not my intention. I don't even know you, man.

Of all the people who commented on here, it is only Solomon I know well, not personally mind u. His story and that of Larry sun are the only ones I have ever read for more than one chapter here on nairaland.

By your outburst, you have taught me something I overlooked. if I open this blog and you guys see the way or we come into conflict along the line, that's it! Vanishing act allKing so I'm stuck with a blog I can't run alone when I already have a full plate.

What I actually tried to do here was help and get help in the same vain.
Why? Whether it is goggle or amazon, literature/fiction is almost impossible to sell.

Take Google AdSense for example, they pay $57 and more per click on articles on law, insurance and high tech software but literature? its just $0.15 to 0.70 dollars. You only get up to one dallar if you write on authors that are 'very special' like Stephen King, not when u write what u want.
When Nigerians visit your blog and click on ads, which most almost never do, its $0.001 dollars go and ask webmasters, most are crying abt it cos USA traffic is hard to get.

Amazon and the likes are worse! Once you are Nigerian, they will ban u from using their preveiewer, ban u from doing keyword research, and then when u finally publish blind, they stick your book where no one will see it. I seen a Nigerian whose book went missing right after he published. i have see people put their book/author rights up for sale on fiverr.

Google keyword planner .....go online and search for it. if you can access that powerful tool in 6 months of trying come here and call me bastard. I access that tool and all others anytime I like! its how I got d search data I posted above for Americans, Canadians and Brits looking for Mystery Novels in all kinds of ways...10m people a month!

All the knowledge I have took me 3 years to gather and i'm still learning. Most of what I know comes from the mouth of a millioniare author here in Nigeria. he spent over 6 years before he found the way. He,s a Yoruba guy and hides his secrets like golden eggs. He is right here on nairaland but has never created a post on literature section in his life! His last post on this website was so many years ago!

Guys like this work amazon and other such oversea sites full time and make real money, but me, i am here begging you to come and learn.

I APOLOGISE!

Vivicathy:
I'm interested

Checked your posts on here. Strong determination you've got. You are in!

solomonbrown64:
......Good work Eze....I am interested.

Sol, just keep killing demons like this and you may just make it. White people love magic and mysteries and myths, particularly when gods and demons are involved, isn't that why Game of Thrones went viral?

frankline461:
Let's talk business

Check your work on here. Nice. You can join up here if it pleases you.

OluwabuqqyYOLO:
I'm interested.

I take it, you are he who emailed me this morning. First things first, you have about 1500 posts on this site and no followers! That doesn't tell one anything special about you and I'm looking for special! Only specials can make it outside Nigeria.where the white man is king and the internet gods honor him, blocking out Nigerians. But I like your fire and so I will accept you on a trial basis. But you need a new name to write, Oluwale won't sell squat outside Nigeria.

So, guys, there are some issues we need to clarify here before assembling on a whatsapps group to go to work.

1. This no get rich scheme but all depends on your hard work, what you write and how you write it. You will need to define/showcase your writing skills to the world over a period of time and then start selling your books, people must know what you are capable of.

Mark Cooker, the founder of Smashwords, the second largest bookstores in the USA after Amazon, and the bookstore with the toughest publishing rules on earth, says and I quote, 'All successful authors, have at least 1free book to their name."

Together, we will showcase our skills to the world in one place! It is the best way, which why I'm wasting my time here in the middle of the night instead of sleeping. And this brings us to the issue of the blog.

The trick here is this, As we all write on the blog, it will develop a large worldwide viewership within two to three months and then any book you sell will be bought. In time your name and fame will spread, beginning here in Africa and next in the USA.

Someone like Vivi can market here skills as a freelancer quite easily. but like google always say, "To rank and get traffic, people need to have a reason to visit your site. Free stories will bring them coming for a long long time. and they will come from all over the world.

Hopefully, I will create the blog this weekend. and get back to you guys here. Once I'm done, you all will email me certain info which will be used to create your profile pages as a publisher on the blog.

I will also fix the issue of plagiarism, I don't tolerate it hence I scan my sites with copyscrape.com monthly to catch the thieving copy and past bloggers who steal my story. I report them to their hosts and ads sponsors straight.

Jbfranklin:
If you put your leg in shoe A ,some seconds later you Got stung by a scorpion try Shoe B...
Harry Potter (movie) net-worth exploded when it went "International"...
you don't expect your work to go far when you don't show it to they world....
"show your work to they world and they world will show your work to Nigeria"
"A prophet is not warmly welcome in his country"

long time no see bro

thedondada:
The only.reason I don't follow nairaland literature section is my impatience for updates. Sometimes for weeks no updates and you keep waiting. Though I know it's not easy for the writers too.

I read a lot since my youthful days. So long books aren't a chore. There was a time I won't stress myself with a book that didn't get to a thousand pages.

Now I just read what grabs and holds my attention

can,t stop laughing!

thedondada:
Lol. Hide it in a book.


I am a voracious reader and have consumed over 10000 fictional books or more. I am currently reading best 25 fantasy books ever written.

Mistborn.

Honestly in the past I spent a fortune on novels which I consumed at a voracious rate to the point the guys who sell to me started "renting books" to me. Read and return pristine. Collect again.


Firstly many don't like to read in Nigeria. You can use nairaland as an example a simple 300 word post and people are looking for summary. How do you expect them to read a novel.

Secondly our interests lie away from books. It's easy money for doing nothing we want. BBN is an example as evidenced by the crowd who attended the auditions.

Thirdly the free internet downloads have killed business for writers. As a matter of fact I stopped buying books and CDs when BlackBerry first came out. I could download and download to my hearts content for free.

I really don't buy novels anymore I will always get it online one way or another.

It's wrong I know but here we are.

look me up by end of January or February. I should have something to turn your blood cold and your heart hot!

Hello guys,

I need no introduction on here. Most of you call me one of the most talented authors around here, however, these same people will tell you that I hardly ever write anymore. This is so, at least where Nairaland concerned and for many reasons too, most important of which is, there is no money in it. Whoa, wait, before you go criticizing me, listen. Among my nairaland fans are 3 webmasters. When I had issues building my website, they never offered to help but kept encouraging me to post more free stories, add more ink to my elbow. After being duped by other fake blog builders, one who got access to my GTBank account through my email associated with the blog, I finally got an Arab to do up a nice blog for me. I paid $$$. So money does count!

I have dropped two free stories here on Nairaland literature section, others I have put up for sale. I have been at his for over 3 years. Got my motivation right here on nairaland, but the payback is not quite right and so I find myself looking for the cash elsewhere.

Check out this thread, set up by a concerned Literature lover, kayo80, he is worried about the lack of financial support for writers which has led to some really talented writers abandoning ship.

https://www.nairaland.com/4227189/why-there-no-millionaire-fiction


Interestingly, just days before this thread, I had this same discussion with another talented author who has abandoned ship here. our very own Godmother. I said to her..... 'These you people writing on Niaraland, they will never make it unless someone shows them the way."

Godmother replied at once saying. "Yes, they will never make it."


Literature writers don't be fooled, if you write up to 5 'masterpiece' novels, you will never make up to 50k on okadabooks in three years. There are so many nice books down there that have only seen 5 downloads in five years! If you wanna make that kind of money you best bet is Amazon and because things down there are so technical and tailor-made for Americans, you will need like 5 years to make the 50k ... fact!
There is a very good reason why writing masters like Larry Sun are not making millions form their books!

Interestingly, once you opt to make those same books free, they get downloaded hundreds of times in just one month! Depending on how good you are. This very thing happened to my book Ruthless Betrayals, it is now available on many top USA and European forum. My only gain is that I got fans in those regions.


I tell you there is no money in writing novels. I tell you to go and ask and give it a try by publishing your work - that is if you can ever meet the formatting requirement of these online bookstores. I tell you all this and yet, in the new year, I'm going full time, book writing. Why? There is money and fame to be had in it but left alone, writers, you will never find out how.

Let me give you some tips which took me years to learn.

1. If you write a very good book, there are millions like yours and so the possibility of you getting seen is so small it is almost non existent. You have two choices here, run expensive Ads or use Keywords technique..

2. Writing with African sounding names is a limitation. (Americans will buy 'A giraffe dance' by Donna Pope.. but won't buy 'A night in the Wilderness by Adebola Adeyemi)

3. You need to give some stuff out for free!

4. You need connections


Based on the last two points, I have come up with an idea called.... THE BLUEGOLD CLUB


The BlueGodl club is a club of online readers who are supplied with information and entertainment via several blogs. The 2 blogs you wanna hear about here are 'BLUEGOLD BOOKS & LITERATURE BLOG" and "KINGEZESBLOG"



BLUEGOLD Books & LITERURTE Blog

BlueGold Books & Literature Blog is the blog equivalent of Nairaland. Authors of all kinds are invited to write and publish for free. All your posts on this blog automatically go to the BlueGold Literature and Books facebook page as well as the BlueGold Club facebook group.


Whty do I need to publish on BlueGold Literature?

You and your story, even here on Nairaland, have no real online presence until you publish on BlueGold Books and Literature Blog. If you doubt me get a relative or a friend to enter your story title into the Google search and check. If this search is done in Nigeria and you have your story up here on Nairaland, it will pop up. But if this search is done outside Nigeria it almost certainly not show up on search results. However, the most important thing to note here is that no one but you or someone connected to you will ever be looking directly for your story on Google.

Don't understand?

People looking for stuff to read online will search for things like 'mystery stories online' or 'romance stories online' or 'action stories in Africa' they will never search for your story in particular. In the combined regions of the United States, Canada, and Britain alone, searches for 'Mystery Novels' alone are over 10 million a month. To feed this searches, Google will not be looking for forums but blogs, good-looking blogs that have fresh contents popping up each day.

Nairaland won't rank outside Nigeria, other blogs that are owned by individual authors won't rank due to constant lack of fresh content. But the BlueGold Books and Literature will rant on the first page of Google in three months! It will be specially optimized for SEO and traffic driven to it form facebook, not to talk of all the Nairaland free story hungry guys on here!

All I need is 5 good authors to join me. You must register with BlueGodl Club as an author (free for the first five). You will be made a moderator on the blog so you can publish, the facebook page and facebook group too. A time will come when you will wanna publish a book for sale, this is only after you third free story on the blog and dependent of how much of a hit it is, I the founder of BlueGold Club, veteran author and publisher will provide all information and help you need for free! This goes only for your first book and ti a limit which will be stated at the appropriate time - trust me, you don't want free work done on areas like your book cover but as a registered BlueGold author you can claim this at half the market price.

Proofreading

One thing these white people hate is bad English and this is why BlueGold authors must have PCs so grammar correction software can be sent to them, but even these are not perfect and so well will accept fans with a command of English language as proofreaders. They will be added to our author whatsapps groups and all authors can submit their works to them for grammar corrections. In other to do their work well the proofreaders get to read all our paid works for free!


Where is the money?

Authors must be patient, fame and money do not come overnight. You will make money publishing your book as a Bluegold author, you will sell here in Africa and overseas because people will know you from the blog. We will work out an arrangement with OkadaBooks to have our own section on the site, If you are really good, people from all over the world will contact you to write for them. Your story can go viral due to the unique nature of a blog.


How about I start my own blog?


Wanna start your own blog instead? That's great an idea! But hey, go ask Larry Sun or Oyin, two of the best authors on here with private blogs how easy a blog gets to maintain. You will keep trying for 3 years and still not make it.
Please go and check my blog. It took me 8 months to get google AdSense approval because AdSense does not love literature, they even make earning so low its biscuit change -- they do this for the same reason i gave you above unless you are a popular author people don't care. The trick I used was to start publishing sports, health, News etc. I gonna clean up the blog over the next 7 days to take on Literature alone.



Links

As a BlueGold author, your book may not be doing well or you may not be known but visitors who come to the blog looking for another author's work will find and like yours. It is a win-win effort.


Dedicated Work always pays


Last year, I got $200 as Christmas gift from a Killer US babe who loved my work. Her facebook name is Marlyne Lakers and I am the only prominent Nigerian in her Facebook group that is for Americans only. She found me on my blog, not nairaland. Only Nigerians will find you here and less than ten percent of them will ever buy your book or send you a gift.
To get a sponsor who will pay you to write things, you need exposure.


I have said enough.

The BlueGold Club and its subdomains will be set up this month. Our author whatsapps group will be formed first. All I need is 5 authors ready to go to work publishing their stories. The blog can accommodate any number of authors but exclusivity is key and so the first five will get in easily but the second five will not and then the door will close. In total, ten authors will be accepted, but incapable ones will be removed.

To qualify, you must be known here on nairaland as good authors.

Attached below is a geo-statistics data of my current blog. My main audience is from the USA! Now you may understand when i tell you taht my last book God vs Science was published on Amazon and cost $7.99


If you are interested in my proposal, comment below or email me at

1. eze21eke@gmail.com
2. Kingezesblog.com
2. bluegoldbooks@yahoo.com


If you do send an email, try to leave a comment here so I know to look. The last two emails are hooked to blogs but the first will enter my phone right off.
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Cheers!

kayo80:
Which way have you found to monetize your stories? Please share. I just really want authors to be able to make a decent living from their works... Whether it is directly or indirectly.

I,m running against time. I wanna publish my new book tonight. I was planning to open a new tread and address the issue having consulted with other genuine authors like 'Godmother'.

I will do so tonight and mention you

kayo80:
Yes, Nigerians don't really read, but someone like NaijaSingleGirl was able to capture a lot of Nigerians with her humor and controversial subject matters. But since she released her book (29 and single or something like that) two years ago, the book has sold just 800 copies on Okadabooks. I was really disappointed in her sales, judging from her popularity and all the promo she did before the book was released, I was expecting it to have sold at least a couple of thousands of copies.

We have a population of 180 million. And in Lagos alone, there are like 20 million people. What can be done to turn things around so fiction authors make a good living from their works?

They love free work do Nigerians. nijiasinglegirl was just lucky. I have produced 3 masterpiece novels. combined, they have not been downloaded as much as my free works.

This is one reason I,m moving into writing fiction on blogs but I have found a way to monitize. only if I had a Nigerian sponsor,

plagiarism has a role to play in the matter.

I now do other kind of writing