Scath | July 14, 2010
Upon receiving my first sale of Feral Intensity (which was my first self-published title), I began the ‘tradition’ of racing to wherever my SO is and doing a happy dance. I think it stopped amusing him around my 20th sale, but oh well. Amazon no longer allows us to share any information from our DTP [...]
Category: Bloggings, Self-Pubbing |
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Tags: Amazon, Babble, e-books, erotica, paranormal, readers, romance, sales, self publishing, Smashwords
Scath | July 5, 2010
Come November, I’ll have been at this indie author/self-publishing pursuit for three years. I don’t expect I’ll know much more about how it all works by then than I currently do, because it’s a puzzling business. Starting out with original fiction back in June 2007 (okay, there were a few instances prior to that, but [...]
Category: Bloggings |
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Tags: #webfic, Amazon, Babble, Challenges, e-books, Goals, readers, self publishing, Smashwords, word counts, writing
Scath | July 4, 2010
Smashwords has partnered with Wattpad, which is billed as the “the world’s most popular ebook community” and “a social network for writers to connect with readers” according to the press release issued. First glance, this was my opinion: While a new partnership is great news, has anyone actually checked out the ‘What’s Hot’ section on [...]
Category: Bloggings |
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Tags: Babble, readers, Smashwords, writers, writing
Scath | June 23, 2010
I seriously don’t get the results of my month long experiment. The experiment was placing two of my ebook titles on sale for 99 cents, dropping them down from $5.25 and $4.75 respectively. During the month that they were at 99 cents, I sold one copy of the first, and seven of the second. I [...]
Category: Self-Pubbing |
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Tags: Amazon, Babble, e-books, readers, sales, self publishing, Smashwords, writing
Scath | June 15, 2010
I’m curious not only if people pre-order ebooks, but what sort of incentive helps them to decide to. I have a fiction ebook (scifi) that will be released with a cover price of $6.95. (Grr, it cut off the first one: That’s ‘a coupon for 100% off to ‘buy’ it after official release in a variety [...]
Category: Self-Pubbing |
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Tags: Amazon, books, Challenges, DRM free, e-books, polls, self publishing, Smashwords