Thursday, August 02, 2012

E publishing: Where Do I START?






I made myself tired just WRITING all of that.

No, not a good time to take on anything else.





Get an e reader. And USE it.










- Alex

Huntress Moon, on sale now:  $3.99

Amazon IT

a female serial.

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Marketing = Madness
Letting it Ride (Kindle Select promotion)
Bestseller lists and Tag lists
Liking, Sharing and Tagging 


Kameko Murakami said...

While every author would love to see her books printed on ACTUAL PAPER by an ACTUAL PUBLISHER and on a shelf in an ACTUAL BOOKSTORE, I do have to admit that I'm completely in love with E-publishing as well.

As a reader, I am a total fool for my Kindle and the massive library I carry around with me everywhere I go (although I do of course read physical books all the time as well, because books are still books, no matter what format they're in).

As a writer, I love the speed of E-publishing, and as someone whose online catalog consists currently of nothing but short stories, I am awfully glad that it allows a place for these to be published, since the traditional short story marketplace has mostly vanished over the course of time.

I'm anxious to see where this revolution takes us, once we get out of the Wild West of E-publishing that we are in right now, where there is just SO MUCH STUFF out there, and it is so hard to hear the music amongst the noise, so to speak.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go curl under the kitchen table and lovingly stroke my Kindle. We loves our Precious! Yes, we does!

Alexandra Sokoloff said...

Laughing, Kameko... "My Precious" is right!

Great point about short stories, and stories are actually good practice to learn the platform of e publishing as well as how to write

Sharon Hamilton said...

Great advice, Alex. You are so right. I'm just smiling here, watching your success, and how you are able to share the path. Thank you.

Laura Libricz said...

I can't imagine how an actual author or avid reader could possibly turn their nose up at the Kindle! If I'd only had one when I was a kid. I feel the same way about my MP3 player and my (paid-for) Napster account. I'm a few weeks away from e-publishing my first novel, so I've been enjoying your journey here. And Huntress Moon. Had to put it down to sleep last night, but I should finish it this weekend!

Alexandra Sokoloff said...

Thank YOU, Sharon!

Laura, it really is shocking to me how many professional authors I know have not even tried reading on an e reader of any kind. I'm with you - if I'd had one of these as a kid?

(Well, maybe that's a kind of scary thought...)

Please share your e pub experiences! Best of luck. And so glad you're enjoying the book, thanks for reading!

hevonie said...

Thank you Alex, I'll follow your advices, precious as always!
Can I ask you, if I may, how do you handle negative feedback? Maybe you didn't get any, but just in case this could happen how would you react to them?
Thank you.

Alexandra Sokoloff said...

Paola, I've definitely been the recipient of some dreaded 1-star reviews. Now, remember, I started out as an actress, so my skin is pretty thick!! Still, it ALWAYS hurts.

But I KNOW beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I've never written a one-star book in my whole life. If there's anything I've learned, it's when to quit when a book or script isn't working.

Now, I understand perfectly that not every book I write is going to be to everyone's taste, and that's fine. Someone who doesn't like The Harrowing might be captivated by Huntress Moon. It's always surprising to me which reader loves which book.

What I don't get is why anyone would KEEP READING a book they personally considered a one-star read. That's such an outrageous waste of time - not to mention PROLONGING that waste of time by writing a scathing Amazon review... I mean, don't these people have anything BETTER to do with that time?

So basically I'm saying that I am confident that a one-star review says more about the person writing it than it will ever say about me and my work.

It hurts, but it really means nothing in the grand scheme of things.