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gsjackson
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Ghost wrote:Damn, not one? I wonder if the length has much to do with it. I know that technically one could sell a short stories by itself on kindle, and people would probably skip over it due to short length. They can get longer works for 99 cents. My novel that I am finishing up is about 56,000 words, so I hope it will sell at least some. It has some problems, but it's OK for a first attempt. It's something I would read, which means it probably won't have a huge market anyway.

Have you tried advertising your book around the web or did you just let Amazon do the advertising? If so, I recommend getting yourself into spreading word of it around. I'm going to do that with mine, so I hope that will scrounge up some interest.
I don't think length is the problem. I've read that novella length is ideal for e-readers because people like something they can read on, say, a plane flight, rather than having to go back to it several times. And I've read about collections of short stories that total only about 15,000 words that sell on Kindle. I also have three vocabulary books of lost words (going out of circulation, but useful) and a specialized exercise book on Kindle. I average about one and a half sales per month with those. I paid to have what I think are good covers made for the books, and sales went down. Very discouraging.

I don't try to do any networking or marketing. Just put them out there on Kindle and started raking in the big bucks at the rate of $5/mo.


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Congrats on waking up, Ghost! Non-misandric pastures await.
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Post by Jester »

Ghost wrote:By the way, since I have talked about writing...

Well, I am mostly interested in creative writing, primarily short stories and novels. I'm almost done formatting my first novel and am getting it ready to publish it through Amazon as an e-book. I am planning to charge 99 cents per copy until I begin to make a name for myself. I do want to make money, but that is a process and for a writer, building a name is vastly more important than making money fast.

After that, I may start working on a collection of short stories as my second book. I love dystopias and apocalyptic stories, so my ideas are largely for books with those settings.

Would anyone be interested in a feminist dystopian novel?
Seems like it would do well among scifi readers.

Personaly I don't read e-books, or books for that matter (anymore). The question is how well does sci fi as a whole do in e-books. If it does well, then you should do well - because the concept will resonate.
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