Today's uploading marathon started out smoothly. I gotta tell ya', it's pretty exciting seeing your book cover pop up on Amazon. Maybe tomorrow it'll even actually be available for sale! I'm going Corvette shopping!
Kindle lapped my book up like a kitten slurping cream. B&N sucked it right up too. I had to jigger the cover size for them, but even techno-boob me managed to figure out how to do it.
And then came Smashwords. Curse you, Smashwords!
For the life of me I can't figure out where I went wrong, and ever-helpful Tina over at 52 Novels...she got the file loaded in a test upload just fine. No problemo. Not for Tina.
Well, I guess I'll try again tomorrow. Maybe I'll use an alias so they won't know it's ME trying to upload the damn manuscript. Yeah, that might work. I'll pretend to be Tina! I'll pretend to be knowing what I'm doing! All your internets will belong to me! BWAHAHAHA...
But 2 out of 3 ain't too bad...and I know my team will dive in and make it happen.
Join me in a cocktail to celebrate! Freddie got his book out!
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Today's the day!
Today's the day!
The gang at 52 Books have expertly formatted Ferris' Bluff for Kindle, Nook, and Smashwords. Today is the day I begin the uploading procedure. Having never tried this before, and with an admittedly poor understanding of all things html, as soon as I log off here I shall begin the procedure(s).
Great story? Check!
Great cover? I think so...so Check!
Edited to within an inch of it's little life? Check!
Properly formatted? I sure as hell hope so!
Well then...we're off.
The gang at 52 Books have expertly formatted Ferris' Bluff for Kindle, Nook, and Smashwords. Today is the day I begin the uploading procedure. Having never tried this before, and with an admittedly poor understanding of all things html, as soon as I log off here I shall begin the procedure(s).
Great story? Check!
Great cover? I think so...so Check!
Edited to within an inch of it's little life? Check!
Properly formatted? I sure as hell hope so!
Well then...we're off.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Off in a new direction!
As you may have noticed I've renamed the blog. The (new) Croixside Gazette will be more focused on writing and indie publishing as I have decided to make the leap and self-publish. There's just too much new and exciting happening in the reading world to keep flogging away with queries and slush piles.
In the coming months I'll be releasing several books that I've written, edited, re-edited, re-re-edited, queried, had rejected, had sample chaps submitted of, had sample manuscripts submitted of, and ultimately have gone nowhere in regards to the big time publishers.
First up will be Ferris' Bluff. One of my babies. It's been an interesting journey.
I completed the rough draft a couple of years ago. It made it to #16 on Authonomy before I abandoned the site for a number of reasons. I kept making revisions and tweaking it and began submitting it to literary agents.
In 2009.
At the low ebb of the financial mess here in America.
I got very little joy from that excercise--a couple of comments that if things were rosier in Pub-Land the agent would look at taking it on, but first time authors and plague carriers were riding the same rail car at the time, it seems.
I put it away and started working on a YA novel last winter (you'll be seeing that one in the future, no doubt about it!). At the same time I kept reading all sorts of interesting articles, many of them posted on Facebook by Pete Morin (bless his sharky lawyer heart). The Kindle and the Nook and the i-Pad were, as reading platforms, kicking paper's ass, and the shame and stigma of being a self published writer was disappearing faster than a cold beer on a hot afternoon in the bass boat!
As I write this, the fine folks at 52 Novels are putting the finishing touches on the Kindle and E-pub reformatting (I don't do code--hell, I can hardly speel!). I'll be Kindling and Nooking and Smashwording in no time, and yes, you'll hear about it when it happens. I'm even going for the dead tree book option with Create Space.
I may have wholly embraced the e-book, but I want to hold one in my hands, too.
So check back often. As the journey continues I'll be writing about the trials and tribulations of indie publishing and keeping you all up to date on other projects.
It's a great time to be a writer!
In the coming months I'll be releasing several books that I've written, edited, re-edited, re-re-edited, queried, had rejected, had sample chaps submitted of, had sample manuscripts submitted of, and ultimately have gone nowhere in regards to the big time publishers.
First up will be Ferris' Bluff. One of my babies. It's been an interesting journey.
I completed the rough draft a couple of years ago. It made it to #16 on Authonomy before I abandoned the site for a number of reasons. I kept making revisions and tweaking it and began submitting it to literary agents.
In 2009.
At the low ebb of the financial mess here in America.
I got very little joy from that excercise--a couple of comments that if things were rosier in Pub-Land the agent would look at taking it on, but first time authors and plague carriers were riding the same rail car at the time, it seems.
I put it away and started working on a YA novel last winter (you'll be seeing that one in the future, no doubt about it!). At the same time I kept reading all sorts of interesting articles, many of them posted on Facebook by Pete Morin (bless his sharky lawyer heart). The Kindle and the Nook and the i-Pad were, as reading platforms, kicking paper's ass, and the shame and stigma of being a self published writer was disappearing faster than a cold beer on a hot afternoon in the bass boat!
As I write this, the fine folks at 52 Novels are putting the finishing touches on the Kindle and E-pub reformatting (I don't do code--hell, I can hardly speel!). I'll be Kindling and Nooking and Smashwording in no time, and yes, you'll hear about it when it happens. I'm even going for the dead tree book option with Create Space.
I may have wholly embraced the e-book, but I want to hold one in my hands, too.
So check back often. As the journey continues I'll be writing about the trials and tribulations of indie publishing and keeping you all up to date on other projects.
It's a great time to be a writer!
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