Well, I made the leap.
I decided to go ahead and publish my first short story with Amazon Kindle--inspired in major part by JA Konrath's blog ["A Newbie's Guide to Publishing"---I highly recommend it]
I am just starting and am being realistic about expectations here.
The short story I published is the entire text of "This is Not Barcelona" [an excerpt of the story is available by clicking on the link to the right...though don't read my bio information at the bottom of the page because it has a major SPOILER ALERT in it.
This short story is a part of a collection that will be released this summer called "Welcome to Shangri-La, North Carolina."
Of course, I will be posting shameless self-promotion on this blog.
I will also make this a chronicle of my Kindle journey, so you can see how one writer starts out from absolute zero and tries to building a following. I promise this: to be bluntly honest. I think we all must have realistic expectations -- JA Konrath has definitely been an incredible success, but success like his does not happen overnight. As he says, the keys are two words: QUALITY and QUANTITY.
The first challenge I've had has been formatting. There's some quirky things with Kindle. Also, my wonderful writing group buddy B alerted me to a few typos, so I went back and corrected them. However, B found that she couldn't get the "corrected" version of the story -- i.e. Kindle wouldn't let her buy it twice...but we'll see how that goes....
The short story sells for 99 cents and the collection will probably sell for $1.99
Here is the link:
This Is Not Barcelona
Yes, you CAN get a copy of this story even if you do not have KINDLE---all you have to do is download the FREE Kindle ap [either for PC or for MAC] and go from there.
Time will tell...I'll keep you posted.
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Actually, I emailed via Amazon's contact us link for help and they have nicely replaced the old version I bought with your new and updated version. With only a few hour turn-around time. I'm very pleased with how the Kindle for Mac is working, and with Amazon's help when I needed it!
Sounds great!
I'm also starting to post on the Kindle boards this week [I think I have the right URL for it....could you forward it to me so I can double check?]
I'm excited to see what happens with this venture.
I just registered as billieh on kindleboards.com and there are also discussion forums at Amazon. Go to the Kindle store and then find the the tab that says community or discussions.
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