For those who aren't familiar with it, Amazon.com has a great program called KDP Select, where self-published authors can enroll their work in the Amazon lending library as well as give away copies for 5 days during the 90 day enrollment period. Sounds great, right? Yes, and no. The main problem with KDP Select, is that in order to enroll you have to give exclusive rights to them for your ebook. You can't sell your ebook anywhere else, and you can't even give it away outside of their site.
Amazon.com has their reasons for demanding exclusivity, and while I don't entirely agree with it, I have been extremely satisfied with them thus far. That being said, I did not choose to re-enroll when the 90 day period ended. I gave it a lot of thought, and I want to make it more widely available. Starting today you can pick up a copy of Chance Assassin at Barnesandnoble.com. You can also continue to buy it at Amazon.com, and the paperback version is still pending for those readers who prefer an old fashioned physical copy (myself included.)
Thanks again, and happy reading!
Friday, May 31, 2013
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Updates
So it's been awhile since I posted here. I'd say it was one part procrastination, one part being busy working on the sequel to Chance Assassin, and about 6 parts of me being not very interesting.
I get that some people use social media to update the masses on each sneeze (actually, I don't. I don't understand that at all. Why do people do that? Does anyone care?) but that's not me. I started this wournal (I refuse to call it a blog because blog is a revolting word) to drum up some interest for my book, and as a way to connect with people who are interested in my writing. I do try to update on a weekly basis, but alas, my hermit life is not very noteworthy.
For anyone who's interested, this is what I've been up to:
My tax day giveaway on Amazon.com went extremely well. I honestly didn't have very high expectations, but even if I had medium expectations, those expectations would've been blown out of the water. Thank you to everyone who picked up a copy, and to those who did a bit of advertising on my behalf from their websites or from goodreads!
The sequel. Chance Assassin was my first book, but that's not to say I wasn't working on other things while writing it. The events of the sequel were already written in the stars so to speak, and I hope to have it out next year. It takes place a few years later, and ***spoiler alert*** mostly in France. It's larger in scope than Chance Assassin, and isn't completely in our previous not-so-humble narrator Vincent's point of view.
So there you have it. Sorry for the delayed post. I'll try to update more regularly in the future.
I get that some people use social media to update the masses on each sneeze (actually, I don't. I don't understand that at all. Why do people do that? Does anyone care?) but that's not me. I started this wournal (I refuse to call it a blog because blog is a revolting word) to drum up some interest for my book, and as a way to connect with people who are interested in my writing. I do try to update on a weekly basis, but alas, my hermit life is not very noteworthy.
For anyone who's interested, this is what I've been up to:
My tax day giveaway on Amazon.com went extremely well. I honestly didn't have very high expectations, but even if I had medium expectations, those expectations would've been blown out of the water. Thank you to everyone who picked up a copy, and to those who did a bit of advertising on my behalf from their websites or from goodreads!
The sequel. Chance Assassin was my first book, but that's not to say I wasn't working on other things while writing it. The events of the sequel were already written in the stars so to speak, and I hope to have it out next year. It takes place a few years later, and ***spoiler alert*** mostly in France. It's larger in scope than Chance Assassin, and isn't completely in our previous not-so-humble narrator Vincent's point of view.
So there you have it. Sorry for the delayed post. I'll try to update more regularly in the future.
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