Support for Indie Authors discussion

Morgan wrote: "Hello! I’m not sure if this is the right folder for this, but I was wondering if anyone has any tips for how and where self-publishing short fiction? I understand Amazon has a minimum word requirem..."

I've published a bunch of short stories on Amazon. If there's a minimum word requirement, I haven't crossed it, yet.

Try Kindle Vella.

My editor recommended putting together several short stories and publishing them on Amazon in a book. It's not easy to take that first step, but I learned a lot from it.

Hi Morgan, Amazon don't specify a minimum word count but I understand it to be about 2500. I've published shorter individual stories via Smashwords (distributing to Nook, Apple, Kobo, etc.) and I've also published them on Google Play. Smashwords are now merged with Draft 2 Digital but I haven't seen anything suggesting that D2D wouldn't distribute shorter fiction. I offer my stories for free and enjoy seeing them get downloads globally but I don't think readers would pay for such short fiction. As others recommend, if you wanted to sell short stories, I would anthologise them and probably put them on Kindle Unlimited initially so you can get the benefit of income from that and the advantages of free promotion periods on Kindle.

You can publish short stories everywhere but you might want to keep them around 2500-20K word range. Have a cover for them even it they are nothing more can a colored background with the title, your name, and that it is a short story. You can actually sell them for $0.99 on Amazon since they hate free.

Vella is for serials, so you might want to avoid that.

If you are already giving them away for free, you might want to look at writing a couple of new stories that can be related in putting them in a book and selling it for that $0.99 and make a little off it. It is a way to get readers so that if/when you write a novel you have a fan base. And hint: put a link to where they can sign up for a newsletter. It can be monthly. That way you have a list of people who like your work and you can notify when you are ready to market a book.