Blame it on sleep deprivation, new technology or simply a bad click, but it seems I launched a Google ad campaign for Vampire Road last week.
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.
Amanda Hocking, the indie e-pubbed bestseller, credits book bloggers for taking her from a minimum wage dead end job to millions of books sold through Amazon and Smashwords.
I was checking my sales report on Amazon to see if my efforts at Bloody Words had produced a bump, but what caught my attention was a new report button for sales at Amazon.uk
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.
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.
So here I go, stepping up on the first rung of the social networking ladder. It's going to take a while, but I'm patient and determined. Besides, maybe I'll make some new friends.
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.