Tag: Amazon
A Matter of Perspective
If you go to Amazon.com and search for books with keyword of “horror”, you’ll get 56,575 results, but only 9,202 are Kindle Editions. If you search for books with the keyword “speculative fiction”, only 745 results are returned, but only 320 are Kindle Editions. If you search for a book…
I Really Need a Checklist
You know, sometimes the most obvious things are the easiest to miss. Both Kindle and Smashwords provide the option to post a detailed description and keywords (tags) to help potential buyers discover your eBook. In the rush to get the eBook text loaded, it’s easy to miss those couple of…
eBook Description
In the latest news from Smashwords, Any Tomorrow: The Calling has passed the automated vetting process and is now up for review by the “vetting review team”. I suspect that passing the automated vetting had something to do with the updated file I submitted on Monday, although I was never…
Paying For It
Last night I submitted updated files for Any Tomorrow: The Calling to Amazon and Smashwords. It was a surprisingly simple process for both distributors, however after almost 24 hours I am #932 in the queue for processing at Smashwords. It takes time, but I’m okay with that. After all it…
To Wait or Not
Writing is a hard thing. There is nothing easy about it. I now have the first book of my trilogy, Any Tomorrow: The Calling, out on Amazon and Smashwords (inclusion in the Smashwords Premium Catalog is still pending). I have the second book in the series, Any Tomorrow: The Curse,…
What about the second book?
As I have been waiting to see what would happen with Any Tomorrow: The Calling and have started talking it up among chat rooms and groups, I’ve also been final editing the second book in the trilogy, Any Tomorrow: The Curse. In fact, Any Tomorrow: The Curse is almost ready…
Notes About Kindle and Smashwords Distribution
For those of you who haven’t submitted an eBook to Amazon (Kindle Direct Publishing) or Smashwords for distribution there are a couple of things to keep in mind regarding time. Assuming your eBook file has been properly formatted and you have an acceptable piece of cover art, getting your eBook…
Now What?
Okay, so my eBook is active on Amazon.com in the .mobi format for Kindle and available in a variety of formats from Smashwords.com. I must say that getting the eBook into both distributors was much easier than I first thought it would be. Using the Smashwords Style Guide was very…
Publication!
Okay, maybe the exclamation point is a bit over the top, but Any Tomorrow: The Calling has been submitted to Smashwords and Kindle. It will be listed for $2.99. It will take a few days before the eBook shows up on Smashwords and even longer before it gets distributed to…
Is that your final answer?
Being an analytical sort of guy, I decided to see exactly where I stood should I decide to publish my novel as a series instead of one volume. The results didn’t really surprise me, because of the way I developed the story. As you can see, Books 4, 5, and…
