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In October, Amazon announced they were shutting down Kindle Vella. The serialized story platform launched in July of 2021, offering an exciting new way for authors to self-publish their work—one episode at a time.

Unfortunately, the idea never really took off. There have been numerous articles theorizing why, so I won’t do that here. Instead, I want to pay tribute to the platform that inspired me to take the plunge and begin self-publishing. I want to talk a...