Alex Johnson's Blog - Posts Tagged "kindle"
Hello everyone!
I'm thrilled to be part of the Goodreads family and look forward to connecting with great, quality writers across the world!
I'm very new to this game, so apologies if I haven't quite "got it", but hopefully you will help me along the way. I hope to do the same for you too.
Like so many authors, it's been a long, long journey to get my book, Run Away, published on amazon kindle. I could have pursued hundreds of agents and publishers and looked multiple rejection in the face, but decided to take the harder, more arduous path myself. Twitter has been great and I thank all those who have bothered to follow me and also to retweet or favourite my tweets. I know it's a numbers game and hope that eventually the news about my book will spread.
Let me know your story too and I look forward to hearing from you soon.
I'm very new to this game, so apologies if I haven't quite "got it", but hopefully you will help me along the way. I hope to do the same for you too.
Like so many authors, it's been a long, long journey to get my book, Run Away, published on amazon kindle. I could have pursued hundreds of agents and publishers and looked multiple rejection in the face, but decided to take the harder, more arduous path myself. Twitter has been great and I thank all those who have bothered to follow me and also to retweet or favourite my tweets. I know it's a numbers game and hope that eventually the news about my book will spread.
Let me know your story too and I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Getting noticed
I've been at this self publishing game for 4 months and consider myself to be a novice. My book Run Away (http://t.co/CYsBi2T4db) is only available on amazon kindle for two reasons:
1. I still don't fully understand how to get the most out of publishing exclusively with kdp select
2. I'm not sure if I would need to go through the long and arduous process of reformatting my book for other platforms.
Then there's the question of free giveaways. With amazon kdp select you're allowed 5 days every 3 months. It's astounding how many 100s of downloads I get but does anyone actually read my novel?
So is it worth doing? I'd say only for the dozens of retweets and thrill of seeing people download your novel around the world. Maybe I'm not doing something I should be. Please tell me if you know!
My biggest success has been with twitter where I've built a following of around 1,500. I try to target authors, book reviewers and bloggers but it doesn't always work that way. One of my most enthusiastic #FF fans isn't a writer as far as I can tell.
In my next post I'd like to discuss pricing: how some authors are allowed to sell for 20p on amazon but I'm not allowed to...what is the optimum price that makes people hit the buy button...
Comments welcome! See you soon.
Alexx
1. I still don't fully understand how to get the most out of publishing exclusively with kdp select
2. I'm not sure if I would need to go through the long and arduous process of reformatting my book for other platforms.
Then there's the question of free giveaways. With amazon kdp select you're allowed 5 days every 3 months. It's astounding how many 100s of downloads I get but does anyone actually read my novel?
So is it worth doing? I'd say only for the dozens of retweets and thrill of seeing people download your novel around the world. Maybe I'm not doing something I should be. Please tell me if you know!
My biggest success has been with twitter where I've built a following of around 1,500. I try to target authors, book reviewers and bloggers but it doesn't always work that way. One of my most enthusiastic #FF fans isn't a writer as far as I can tell.
In my next post I'd like to discuss pricing: how some authors are allowed to sell for 20p on amazon but I'm not allowed to...what is the optimum price that makes people hit the buy button...
Comments welcome! See you soon.
Alexx
