Three characters walk into a plot…

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Three characters walk into a plot… Amazon has recently come up with a new way for you to make money as an author. It’s called “Kindle Worlds”, and I wrote about the announcement in my blog, I Love My Kindle. I’m addressing it again here with WG2ERs because this is something I think some of [...]

Unpublish or perish?

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Unpublish or perish? Nowadays, anybody can publish a book. “Publishing” just means to make it available to the public, and you can do that (digitally) through a lot of options: Smashwords, Amazon, and so on. It’s possible that some people leap at the opportunity, and don’t consider what they are doing as carefully as might [...]

Fun or money?

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Fun or money? I don’t make my living writing. I have a full time job, although I wouldn’t be poverty level based on my income the past few years as a writer. However, I do think, and I believe I’m realistic in this, I could be only a writer and make a decent living. It [...]

Not so freely free: Amazon’s 20K/80% vision

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Not so freely free: Amazon’s 20K/80% vision Who doesn’t like free books, right? How about the company that has to deliver all those books…and store them for people…and deal with the Customer Service…and the accounting costs…and… Well, free books even have their benefits for that company, of course. Free books can inspire the sale of [...]

Paging Dr. Page: your Amazon Author Central page

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Paging Dr. Page: your Amazon Author Central page Don’t you wish your publisher would promote your blog posts, let you directly connect to your readers, and host a calendar of your events? Well, if you publish through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing, you can do all that…and more! Even if you only have independently published e-books [...]