Wednesday, January 05, 2011

Adventures in ebooking


I've decided to have a go at putting an ebook up on Amazon. This is a learning curve as I don't really know what I'm doing. So here's the adventure. Step by step I'm going to post as I go along.
Step 1. Pick something already finished to put up as the ebook. I have several novels finished (rejected by agents) that I think are polished and ready to go. I'm choosing "Disregarding Heaven", a story about a woman who finds out she should have died two years ago and now has no destiny. When she finds out it's all her guardian angel's fault she goes looking for him and the show down ain't gonna be pretty.
One editor told me I introduced the hero too late and that he should have come in within the first ten pages. Hmmmmm, gotta think on that. I might have a slight change to make, but I have an idea on how to do it.
Step 2. Polish it one more time. I'm going through it again because I have this very nervous feeling that it won't be perfect and reviews will be biting.
That's where I'm at now.
All advice welcomed.

5 comments:

Rick said...

I'm getting ready to do the same thing, so I'm looking forward to your postings. Happy New Year, by the way!

Charles Gramlich said...

Did you see the series of posts I did about this topic when I published Killing Trail? I think it was June 2010 or around that time. Perhaps some in May.

Aimlesswriter said...

Rick, We can adventure into this together. If you have any tips let me know.

Aimlesswriter said...

Charles,
I found some in July. Thanks! This is so confusing I need all the help I can get.

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