If it's not one thing it's another

I've been trying to get to work on a new book which I plan to publish on the Kindle, but I've got so much stuff going on that I haven't been able to get to it.

My resolution for the new year - write and publish one book a month.

I'll let you know how it goes.

Apologies....

It's been a long time since I've posted here... been a long time since I've uploaded anything to Kindle.

Now that Christmas is approaching...time to think of getting something new there...

Will post thoughts later.

Working on a *new* project

That always seems to be my refrain, doesn't it?

I put my latest Scrabble book for sale on Ebay...not because i wanted it to sell on Ebay (I'd send a mobi doc to whoever bought it) but because I wanted to increase the exposure of all my books.

But Ebay doesn't have a keyword function to put it a lot of keywords, so once again I don't think anyone can see it.

Very frustrating.

How long to wait before advertising?

I just published my latest book on the Kindle and Nook. Kindle went live after bout 10 hours, the Nook took 3 days.

No sales for either, yet.

I was hoping that the keywords would be enough to bring the book to everyone's attention - who was interested in the subject matter.

Unfortunately, for the Kindle at least, there's so many books there on any subject matter that any new book will come up on the 3rd page of any search.

And since I"m not allowed to announce the books on the Kindle message boards where any interested folks might see it...I'm screwed.

I'll be working on a webpage to sell the book and see if that helps.

Posts resume Saturday

Posts resume Saturday! I'm getting ready for Labor Day weekend tomorrow (Friday.)

Takes a while to recover from seething anger

Have recommenced working on my Kindle projects. Took me a while to want to get back into it, after the extremely annoying stuff from a few days ago...

Kindle really does annoy me. Not only do they not allow you to tell people - in a book forum - about your book, you're also not allowed to have a signature linking to your book.

And that's beyond the pale. What's wrong with having a signature link?

Nothing, except to the petty tyrants on these message boards -all of whom are extremely overweight or otherwise powerless, who thus like to come to message boards where they can throw their weight around (no pun intended). No one pays attention to them in their real lives, so they create an atmosphere where they can tell folks what to do.

Idiots.

Just what is spam?

I'm still seething about  yesterday, when a bunch of idiots on an Amazon.com message board got all bent out of shape because some poor schmuck tried to tell them about his book.

I wish I'd posted this at the time, and it's too late now because I won't go back to the thread, it would infuriate me all over again to read their drivel.

The Amazon Kindle message boards are for discussing books. BOOKS. Books.

An author who has written a book therefore, and creates a post on Amazon's message board to announce that book, is not spamming. He - or she - is posting about a book in a book related forum.

 If he was posting an ad for bras or hair restorer, in a book related forum, that would be spam, because  bras and hair restorer have nothing to do with books.

But a newly published book? Why yes, that has everything to do with books.

I don't know why these idiots on these message boards can't see that.

It's not like it's two people standing around having a conversation,and some other guy comes up to them and says hey, read my book.

On a message board, each post has a title. You run your eye over the titles, and you open those posts that look appealing. You see a post for a book, published by it's author? GASP! Don't want to read it? Well, geez, then don't open it.