A guest blog post from author Thomas Amo. His book Forever ME is nominated for the Best YA title in the 2013 eFestival of Words Best of the Independent eBook Awards.

Apparently, the experiences of an actual INDIE AUTHOR who has been self-publishing for ten years hold less weight than those of a former trad author who just joined the indie side.

When someone sends you a dozen emails threatening to shove a broken baseball bat into various parts of your anatomy, it’s time to call it a day.

But is that resentment truly an issue, or just a small, vocal minority of customers? We went to the Amazon.com customer forum to find out. Amazon.com has become, in many ways, the primary battleground for this discussion. With both its Createspace POD service and the Kindle self-publishing service, Amazon has made it easier than ever for authors to self-publish and promote their own books.

In Part Three of the series, we examine how readers view indie books and what they really care about.

Part One concludes with a bried discussion of how to develop a strong ethical policy as an author.

Part one of the Author Ethics series begins with a brief overview of ethical theory.

Part one of the Author Ethics series continues with a look at applied ethics and how it impacts authors.