Okay, it was supposed to launch on May 15th. it was supposed to launch yesterday. But at last, Vampire Road has launched. Kind of.
My post-apocalyptic vampire novel, Vampire Road, will launch Monday, May 30th. It will only be available for the Kindle platform via Amazon at first, but all other formats will follow.
If a publisher came to me and asked to represent my my novel, promising to shop it around to other publishers, I'd be stunned.
Look out Sony e-reader, Nook and Kobo, because Amazon announced this week that Kindles are now on display and available for purchase at 3,200 Walmart stores.
Genre fiction is selling so well on Kindle that Amazon is stepping further into the publishing roll. They've opened up an imprint, Montlake Romance, that will publish everything from paranormal romance to suspense romance.
The Wall Street Journal had an interesting article about how self-pubbed e-books are totally upending the e-book market. My favourite
The crowd that clings to paper books has a standard set of excuses as to why they prefer dead, pulped trees over electrons as their delivery system for words.
Fogel and I have been debating how e-books will affect freelance editors. I'm guessing that people who want to indie e-publish will be swamping freelancers in-boxes with edit requests.
I can't wait to see Priest, because I'm pretty sure that the movie's high-tech take on vampire fighting is very different from my post-apocalyptic novel where gunpowder is so scarce that people carry swords and cross bows as supplementary weapons.
But speaking of published: the second story I ever had published, Beer Truck, is now available for Kindle. Take it for a spin, but keep in mind that the story is about people doing very dumb things, taking chances so huge that a Darwin award is but one slippery grip away. Don't try this at home.