It's the wild west in e-publishing, and everyone is striving to find a niche. I know this, yet I was surprised today when an e-mail arrived this morning from XinXii.com asking me to post me e-book with them for sale in Germany.
I've waded through the Smashwords Style Guide and come out the other side, humbled and wiser.
I'm at the Bloody Words Mystery Convention this weekend in lovely Victoria, and I've been surprised at how many authors, both newbies and established, have come to me asking about how to format and publish their e-books for Kindle and other platforms.
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.
Railroaded tied for second in the 2005 Great Canadian story contest. How three judges tied for their second place vote I'm not really sure, but hey, I'll take it.
Yup, I'm finally ready to re-launch my Sioux Rock Falls Short Story, Burning Moose. This was the first of a series of stories that appeared in Storyteller Magazine between 2002 and 2006.
Eisler is joining a growing number of authors who are walking away from legacy publishers.
Luckily Smashwords has a 73 page manual on how to format your MS word document so that it will upload nicely as an e-book.
I note this morning that Amanda Hocking's Switched (see post below) is for sale on Amazon Kindle for 99 cents,