My latest book published for the Kindle is now available for purchase. (And within a couple of days, should be available for Barnes&Nobles Nook as well.)
It's science fiction.
Tracy Karlovassi, actress, is the star of the science fiction TV series The Coldest Equations, in which she plays Miranda Rainbird, security team leader for a corporation that deals in space travel. It is the near future, and these civilian corporations devoted to space travel have become little worlds of their own, with security agents protecting their own engineers and scientists from kidnap or spying, while at the same time spying on other corporations and attempting to kidnap their scientists and engineers.
Whenever a TV series on our earth is committed to celluloid, it is immediately created as an alternate earth, that exists just as much as our own does. And there are watchers -out there- who have devised a way to transport the actors from the TV series to their real life counterparts on the alternate earth, and vice versa.
In the TV series (and on the alternate earth) Miranda Rainbird has been framed for a crime she did not commit, and is on the run from both friend and foe. If it *were* Miranda Rainbird on the run, she could doubtless solve all her problems, skilled agent that she is. But Tracy Karlovassi has been transferred into her body...and what can a mere actress do?
It's fun, it's suspenseful, if you like classic science fiction TV and books, you'll like it. And best of all, it's only $2.99!
Available now. Go to the Kindle store via your kindle and search for The Coldest Equations, or follow this link:
http://www.amazon.com/Coldest-Equations-People-There-ebook/dp/B0052NSRKK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1306369228&sr=1-1
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Exploring the Nook
I had not been keeping track of Barnes& Nobles' Nook... now it turns out that they have the same kind of independent publishing program that Amazon does - except whereas Amazon gives you 70% as your top royalty, they only give you 65%. But, on a 99 cent book, they give you a 40% royalty, which is 10% better than what Amazon does.
Unfortunately, you are not allowed to price your book differently. I'd uploaded my Whose Body annotated to the Nook, and wanted to charge $1.99 instead of the 99 cents I'm charging on Amazon, just to see if people were willing to pay more for an annotated version. But after reading the TOS, I learned I couldn't do that. Prices had to be the same on any platform where the book was offered for sale.
Bummer!
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Unfortunately, you are not allowed to price your book differently. I'd uploaded my Whose Body annotated to the Nook, and wanted to charge $1.99 instead of the 99 cents I'm charging on Amazon, just to see if people were willing to pay more for an annotated version. But after reading the TOS, I learned I couldn't do that. Prices had to be the same on any platform where the book was offered for sale.
Bummer!
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Neither a borrow nor a lender be
I wish that I could follow that advice, but Amazon Kindle does not allow me to do so. Last night, I uploaded my new book The Coldest Equations to Amazon.com. I'd intended to charge $3.99 for it. I think that's a fair price.
Prior to that, though, I had wanted to explore the permutations of the lending feature. So I posted a thread in the Amazon Kindle forums, asking people if they purchased books they'd been leant. Most of them did not.
So, I did not want my book to be made available for lending.
Unfortunately, I did not have that choice. If you price your book at $1.99 or more, it is automatically made lendable, you can't opt out of it.
This makes no sense to me. Amazon has got to be losing money on this too, and in any event, they have no right to make such a draconian decision. It should be my choice whether or not I want somebody to be able to lend my book, not Amazons!
In the thread, a lot of people were telling me they'd probably buy a book from an unknown quantity for 99 cents, no more than that. And I refuse to price my book that low, and get a measly 30 cents per copy. Not after the amount of work I've put into it.
So I've priced it at $2.99.
Of course, Amazon is working to hamper independent publishers still further. It used to be that you could go to any Kindle message group and put in a plug for your book, and failing that, you could at least put a link to your book in your sig line.
No longer - now that's not allowed. There's only 1 place in these message boards where you're allowed to announce your book. That's ridiculous.
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Prior to that, though, I had wanted to explore the permutations of the lending feature. So I posted a thread in the Amazon Kindle forums, asking people if they purchased books they'd been leant. Most of them did not.
So, I did not want my book to be made available for lending.
Unfortunately, I did not have that choice. If you price your book at $1.99 or more, it is automatically made lendable, you can't opt out of it.
This makes no sense to me. Amazon has got to be losing money on this too, and in any event, they have no right to make such a draconian decision. It should be my choice whether or not I want somebody to be able to lend my book, not Amazons!
In the thread, a lot of people were telling me they'd probably buy a book from an unknown quantity for 99 cents, no more than that. And I refuse to price my book that low, and get a measly 30 cents per copy. Not after the amount of work I've put into it.
So I've priced it at $2.99.
Of course, Amazon is working to hamper independent publishers still further. It used to be that you could go to any Kindle message group and put in a plug for your book, and failing that, you could at least put a link to your book in your sig line.
No longer - now that's not allowed. There's only 1 place in these message boards where you're allowed to announce your book. That's ridiculous.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Blog reports now available
Actually they've been available since last night.
It's kind of frustrating. I'll be receiving a relativley nice sum on the 29th (the day the payments are usually made), but that nice sum hasn't increased in 3 months - it's been the same each time.
Which means I'm not getting any new subscribers for my blogs...
And for one at least, I find that very difficult to believe. My Rush Limbaugh blog stays in the 4,000s every day. Occasionally it's gotten up as high as 12,000, meaning no one has subscribed to it for several hours, but within a couple more hours its down to 4,000.
Which means people are subscribing!
And while its perfectly possible that they subscribe, take a look at the blog and unsubscribe immediately, I find it difficult to believe that eveyrone does this. Yet the blog has been stuck on 470 subscribers (with 23 or so newbies) for over 3 months. So every new person who subscribes, immediately unsubscribes?
I just don't believe that.
But of course, there's no way to prove otherwise...
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It's kind of frustrating. I'll be receiving a relativley nice sum on the 29th (the day the payments are usually made), but that nice sum hasn't increased in 3 months - it's been the same each time.
Which means I'm not getting any new subscribers for my blogs...
And for one at least, I find that very difficult to believe. My Rush Limbaugh blog stays in the 4,000s every day. Occasionally it's gotten up as high as 12,000, meaning no one has subscribed to it for several hours, but within a couple more hours its down to 4,000.
Which means people are subscribing!
And while its perfectly possible that they subscribe, take a look at the blog and unsubscribe immediately, I find it difficult to believe that eveyrone does this. Yet the blog has been stuck on 470 subscribers (with 23 or so newbies) for over 3 months. So every new person who subscribes, immediately unsubscribes?
I just don't believe that.
But of course, there's no way to prove otherwise...
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Monday, May 16, 2011
Selling your books in Germany
The German market has recently opened up for us, and I'm still researching it. Will report here sometime this week on how to take advantage of this new market. (Germans are typically bi-lingual, and will buy English books, more often than an American will!)
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Welcome new subscribers
If you have a blog published on the Kindle, don't forget to email me at Nocturne_CVS@yahoo.com (I don't hotlink it, in an effort to deter spammerse) and have me review it for you.
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Seaborn: Oceanography Blog
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Star Trek Report: Space Sciences
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Friday, April 29, 2011
Blocked and Pending Deactivate
About a week ago I submitted a blog for publication - Ayn Rand Annotated. I'm starting with Atlas Shrugged.
For over a week there was no action, it was just "Pending."
Yesterday I submitted two new blogs, one on classic cars and the other on classic sports.
When I checked back later that same day, the Ayn Rand blog was BLOCKED in red letters, and the two new blogs wee "Pending Deactivate".
I requeste to know what the heck was going on on the message boards - no answer.
But today, all three blogs are published.
So I guess it was just another glitch in their system.
And there's another. A handful of my blogs now have more subs than would seem possible, considering there was no intervening "trial" period for them. Yesterday I had 0/7 subs on one blog, today there's 0/14.
Last time this happened, it happened to all my blogs, where everyone doubled in sub numbers. This has only affected a few blogs, so I'm not sure if the numbers are real or not.
So annoying!
On the other hand, got my payment from Amazon for my blogs yesterday, and it was a nice chunk of change. Not as big as it should be if they hadn't messed with my blog prices, but not too bad.
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For over a week there was no action, it was just "Pending."
Yesterday I submitted two new blogs, one on classic cars and the other on classic sports.
When I checked back later that same day, the Ayn Rand blog was BLOCKED in red letters, and the two new blogs wee "Pending Deactivate".
I requeste to know what the heck was going on on the message boards - no answer.
But today, all three blogs are published.
So I guess it was just another glitch in their system.
And there's another. A handful of my blogs now have more subs than would seem possible, considering there was no intervening "trial" period for them. Yesterday I had 0/7 subs on one blog, today there's 0/14.
Last time this happened, it happened to all my blogs, where everyone doubled in sub numbers. This has only affected a few blogs, so I'm not sure if the numbers are real or not.
So annoying!
On the other hand, got my payment from Amazon for my blogs yesterday, and it was a nice chunk of change. Not as big as it should be if they hadn't messed with my blog prices, but not too bad.
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Subscribe to our other blogs on Kindle:
Seaborn: Oceanography Blog
Star Trek Report: Space Sciences
Volcano Seven: Treasure and Treasure Hunters
Rush Limbaugh Report
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