Draft2Digital

I just discovered this service by accident. Wow is it awesome. It give you access to the two biggest distributors (that are not Amazon) and allow you to post your books up for free which you cannot do if you attempt to do it yourself. I made my short story The Home available on Barnes & Noble, iTunes, Scribd and Page Foundry through them. They also can get books up on Kobo but Kobo is friendly enough to self publishers to allow you to do that yourself.

Nice service and it cost me nothing. Which really helps when you are giving the book away. iTunes takes the longest to approve a book to publish. They were rather picky and declined it the first time when they found an affiliate link to Amazon in it. I had to redo that part and reupload yesterday. Barnes & Noble took about a day.

If you are looking to self publish, use Draft2Digital. They are a fantastic resource.

Update: Now the Home is up on iTunes as well as other platforms. Check the My Books Page for all the possible distribution mechanisms.

The Home: Now Live on Google Play and Kobo

Well, in an effort to make The Home a permafree book, I have put it up on Kobo and Google Play for free. Turns out you can't put it up on Nook for free without going to a service like Smashwords. Anyway, if you get a chance, tell Amazon that you can find it for free.

Amazon link: https://kdp.amazon.com/amazon-dp-action/us/bookshelf.marketplacelink/B014IIP62G

Google Play Link: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Chris_Stoesen_The_Home?id=A-kUCwAAQBAJ

Kobo Link: https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/the-home-12

The Home - First few days

I put the short story on a free deal almost as soon as it went up. The results have been pretty good. I only advertised on my Twitter account and here on the blog. The results have been great.

I went on-line this morning and here is where it was sitting:
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,512 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Free in Kindle Store)
#2 in Kindle Store > Kindle Short Reads > 45 minutes (22-32 pages) > Science Fiction & Fantasy
#23 in Kindle Store > Kindle Short Reads > 45 minutes (22-32 pages) > Literature & Fiction

The book reached the top 4,000 of all free books in the Kindle store and reached #2 in one of the categories. This may be a fluke but I have to say that I am quite pleased.

If you have had a chance to read it, please let me know what you think. I would love to hear back from you. Should I write more of these, stick with the longer novels or do something else?

Thanks.

The Home: A Zombie Survival Short Story Published

Well I went ahead and hit submit on the short story. It went live at 4am this morning. I got some early feedback and ran it through both Hemingway and Ginger editors. I fooled around with a cover and came up with something that I liked.

Anyway, I am running a free book promotion on it tomorrow. I don't want to charge the default $0.99 for it since it is a 7k word short story, but I can't figure out how to convince Amazon to lower the price under Kindle Select.

Also, I have finished all of the edits for CSS Appomattox. The 2.0 version is now up on Kindle as of yesterday. Very happy with the edits that Allison did. She did a great job. Hopefully, if you have the previous version(s), the 2.0 update will be pushed out by Amazon.

Anyway, happy reading.