Janet Gogerty's Blog: Sandscript - Posts Tagged "kindle-self-publishing"

I woke up early this morning and it had arrived. The book we downloaded onto Amazon Kindle, not long before midnight, had arrived well within the predicted twelve hours labour. How many little Amazon Elves had been toiling away all night, typing furiously at the 195,000 words? I downloaded it onto my Kindle, checked the beginning and the end were there and welcomed our fourth Kindle baby into the world.
On Wednesday it will be our first anniversary as Kindle Self Publishers. Cyberspouse has produced the covers with camera and computer and provided calm technical support!
What started as a short story is on the way to becoming a trilogy. 'Three Ages of Man' is the preparallequel to 'Brief Encounters of the Third Kind'. A nameless character walked into the first novel uninvited, helped steer the plot and became a favourite. He narrates the second novel. These novels do not have a genre; family sagas that explore how ordinary people cope when faced with the extraordinary. The universe is unknowable and the events that happen to them could happen to any of us!
To find out more visit goodreads, Amazon Kindle and www.ccsidewriter.co.uk. I hope you enjoy a good read.

What is the hardest sentence to write? The last sentence of a novel, especially if it is the last sentence of a trilogy.
The end of the year seemed like a good time to finish my latest novel and the last few weeks have been full of surprises for me and my characters.
Sixty chapters and 189,000 words, all printed out on paper, that is how I like to edit. As a Kindle reader myself I am coming more and more to think that shorter chapters are best in e-book format. With a paper book you can flick through to see if it's worth starting another chapter before you go to sleep, get off the bus or finish your lunch break. On your Kindle a chapter that ends with a cliff hanger or a question makes a good point to switch off and look forward to switching on.
The three books cover just over three years, three Christmases are celebrated, three very different characters narrate.
I have written the last sentence, but may change it or remove it. I don't have to decide for sure until it's time to press the 'Publish' button on Amazon KSP.
Look out for previews of 'Lives of Anna Alsop', the final novel in the Brief Encounters Trilogy' in future blogs and follow progress at my Facebook Author Page and see a preview of the cover.

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