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This week we had as our guest the lovely Melissa Storm, who runs several author businesses, and is also a very successful indie author in her own right. Along with her training courses through the Author Engine, and editing, marketing and formatting services through Novel Publicity, Melissa also runs LitRing, an author promotions company that helps authors connect with readers. This year, through LitRing, she created a survey that asked readers about the books they were reading, what they wanted to see from authors, and whether they read mostly free or paid books, among other questions. With an extensive background in research and in particular survey creation, Melissa was well served to design, implement and analyse the data from over 10,000 readers, making it quite possibly the largest survey conducted by an independent author. She talks to us about the insights we can take away from this amazing survey!
