Did you know you can write and publish short stories for Amazon Kindle?
I've been hearing about the Kindle Short Reads for a while but finally investigated. And tested.
As far as my research took me, these can be a few different lengths, needs to be approved, and just like every other Kindle book has to have a cover.
Word count categories:
30 min read: 12 - 21 pages
45 min read: 22 to 32 pages
60 min read: 33 to 43 pages
120+ min read: 65 - 100 pages
To test this I went through a few of my dozens of short stories. (All saved and filed all over my computers - someday I have to get organized.)
I picked a creepy old story I wrote about a year ago. Went to Canva and did a quickie book cover, and popped it up on Kindle Short Reads. Took maybe twenty minutes to a half hour.
Two things I wish I had done;
Picked a better background picture. Done better font.
This cover was done in five minutes. I should have slept on it. 😝
Escaping Pigwell was 14 pages in a Word doc, double spaced, Courier New. (Yes, I should have used Times New Roman - the standard) On Amazon this story came up as 10 pages/1964 KB. I did put it through as a word doc and not a pdf. Keywords I used the basic read tags like Horror, murder, etc but also added "short read" so Amazon would tag it appropriately.
Pricing is your choice, of course, but I opted for .99 cents.
Since this went up so easy and went live just a couple hours later, I'm going to put up more. Sometimes I have an idea and it never makes it to book length. Now there is an place for all our stories and people who look to read them.
In my search of these short stories I saw some shorts by Dean Koontz, Debbie Macomber, John Grisham, Jodi Picoult. So know, if you decide to publish a short, you'll be in good company.
So if you want a dark creepy read check out Escaping Pigwell on Amazon
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