Calling Vicki, Welcome to Amazon
The news for today is that my suspense novel, Calling Vicki, has just been publish on Amazon click here. This leaves the paperback version of the novel yet to be released. You must understand that when you are self publishing a novel it does not happen all at once. You have different venues that of course have different standards that must be met before publication.
How do I publish my first novel?
Good question.
There is no easy answer to this. You can go the traditional route. This would be finish you novel. Hire someone to proof read it or do it yourself. Then you will have to find an agent. Finding an agent involves researching those who represent your kind of fiction or nonfiction. Then crafting a query. If they like your query then they will request that you submit a few sample chapters and an outline. If they like both then you book will be requested. If they like you book and agree to represent you then you will sit back and wait for them to find a publisher. They will review the offer and if it is acceptable you will have a publisher. Once this happens you will wait a few months or up to a year before publication.
While if you self publish you decide when the book is ready and then you seek
out the venues that you wish to publish on or you uses a company like smashwords or Draft2digital or Bookbaby to do the distribution for you and you are published in days. How much do they cost? Well Smashwords and Draft2digital are free, while Bookbaby cost money. They say that they have a free option, but it is very complicated and their customer service on that option stinks.
I could have taken my novel Calling Vicki to each venue separately. By doing so I do not have to share any of the revenue, but that was time consuming and some are more difficult to deal with than others. Barnes and Noble is easier than Amazon or Createspace. I made the choice to get help to distribute my first novel.
Trust me on this that the distribution part of the job is a lot easier than the marketing. The type of book that you have written, horror or thriller or romance will make it easier or more difficult to market the book. In another life I hope to write teen horror fiction. It is by far the easiest to market and the fan base is intensely loyal. The problem with being a writer is that we write what comes to us. We do not really have a choice of the types of stories that we end up telling. The genre finds us.
Okay that is it for today’s post. Please take a moment to read one of the same chapters and remember that my book is now available on Amazon.
The news for today is that my suspense novel, Calling Vicki, has just been publish on Amazon click here. This leaves the paperback version of the novel yet to be released. You must understand that when you are self publishing a novel it does not happen all at once. You have different venues that of course have different standards that must be met before publication.
How do I publish my first novel?
Good question.
There is no easy answer to this. You can go the traditional route. This would be finish you novel. Hire someone to proof read it or do it yourself. Then you will have to find an agent. Finding an agent involves researching those who represent your kind of fiction or nonfiction. Then crafting a query. If they like your query then they will request that you submit a few sample chapters and an outline. If they like both then you book will be requested. If they like you book and agree to represent you then you will sit back and wait for them to find a publisher. They will review the offer and if it is acceptable you will have a publisher. Once this happens you will wait a few months or up to a year before publication.
While if you self publish you decide when the book is ready and then you seek
out the venues that you wish to publish on or you uses a company like smashwords or Draft2digital or Bookbaby to do the distribution for you and you are published in days. How much do they cost? Well Smashwords and Draft2digital are free, while Bookbaby cost money. They say that they have a free option, but it is very complicated and their customer service on that option stinks.
I could have taken my novel Calling Vicki to each venue separately. By doing so I do not have to share any of the revenue, but that was time consuming and some are more difficult to deal with than others. Barnes and Noble is easier than Amazon or Createspace. I made the choice to get help to distribute my first novel.
Trust me on this that the distribution part of the job is a lot easier than the marketing. The type of book that you have written, horror or thriller or romance will make it easier or more difficult to market the book. In another life I hope to write teen horror fiction. It is by far the easiest to market and the fan base is intensely loyal. The problem with being a writer is that we write what comes to us. We do not really have a choice of the types of stories that we end up telling. The genre finds us.
Okay that is it for today’s post. Please take a moment to read one of the same chapters and remember that my book is now available on Amazon.
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