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.
There are dozens of paths that will take your novel from a computer to Kindle, and the route will largely depend on the current file format of the work. We're going to start with the most common for indie authors: a Microsoft Word document.
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.
Author Barry Eisler shocked the publishing world when he walked away from a $500,000 deal with St. Martin's Press so that he could self-e-publish his next John Rain novel.
Amazon just gets faster everyday. Vampire Road is already available in the e-book store.
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.
The biggest similarity between my vampire novel and the vampire movie Priest is the concept of a religious order that has trained specifically to fight vampires.