Yesterday, a FB friend asked whether she should set her new book up on Amazon so it could be "borrowed". The discussion turned into one a number of people were interested in -- in fact, one of the participants asked Sarah if MGC could do a post on KDP Select and Kindle Unlimited from an... Continue Reading →
What to do?
I'll admit it. I've sort of at a loss for what to write about today. It's not that I'm having trouble finding topics. It's that my must has been anything but kind of late. After spending months trying to finish Nocturnal Challenge, I've discovered two things. First, the basic outline I had for the novel... Continue Reading →
Digital Sunday
Next week, we'll begin the Pacing Workshop, lead by Sarah but assisted by some of the rest of us. In the meantime, I'm supposed to find something to blog about today. The only problem is that my brain has gone on vacation. It's mean that way. You see, it does this to me sometimes, leaving... Continue Reading →
The Road to Digital Publication – Part 8
Fist off, I want to thank Sarah for stepping in last weekend to give us that wonderful post on covers. For those of us who have been brought up shopping for books in bookstores, or even at the local grocery store or Walmart, covers have often played a role in getting us to pick up... Continue Reading →
More thoughts on Amazon
(For those looking for the next installment of The Road to Digital Publishing, it will be posted Sunday.) This past Saturday, I posted about how frustrated I have gotten with folks who lay all the blame for the problems of the publishing and bookselling industries at the feet of Amazon. In the course of the... Continue Reading →
The Road to Digital Publishing – Part 4
by Amanda S. Green You have your short story or novel written. You have it formatted for conversion. Now you're ready to look at the different outlets where you can put it up for sale. The only problem is, they all have their own contracts or "agreements" and so much boilerplate it's hard to tell... Continue Reading →
An experiment in progress
by Amanda S. Green Last month Naked Reader Press made the decision to take one of its titles into the new KDP Select Program. For those who don't know what the Select Program is, it is basically a gamble. It allows small publishers and self-published authors to take their titles for free for a period... Continue Reading →