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Resources for Kindle Authors and Publishers, from Steve Windwalker
Quick links, bringing you great articles on writing from all over the web. Everyone wants to give you advice, including all the posts here. : ) But there is some advice you just shouldn’t listen to. Mike Sahno at Anne R. Allen’s Blog lists some advice that most writers will receive at least once in […]
Quick Links: How to Write 10,000 Words in a Day, and Why You Should Give It a Shot (at least once)
Quick links, bringing you great articles on writing from all over the web. What is the most words you have written in day? Have you ever done 10K? I have a couple of times during NaNoWriMo, when life almost got in the way of completing my 50K words. It is not something I think I […]
Not everyone does Kindle Countdown Deals, or KDP Select. But if you are among those who do, there’s one little thing that could make a big difference in your efforts to get the most out of a Kindle Countdown Deal. When you set up a Kindle Countdown deal, the KDP system allows you to set […]
Q. Thanks to Brandon, an author who wrote in with this question: With your sponsorship program you ask for the book file for review. Can the review you supply be used/quoted for marketing/promoting purposes by the author? Is it similar to how the Kirkus Review or San Francisco Book Review works? A. Hi Brandon, Thanks […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, we share a free university website resource that will be helpful for any writer. This post originally appeared on the George Mason University English Writing Guide site. While it’s intended for use by students of that University who are following a specific essay-writing curriculum, the common errors it lists will be […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, author Gayle Carline discusses the challenges involved in writing about things she’s never experienced personally. This post, by Gayle Carline, originally appeared on the Crime Fiction Collective blog on 12/6/12 and is reprinted here in its entirety with that site’s permission. The first piece of advice given to any writer is […]
Happy New Year from Kindle Nation, We’ve all been saying “Happy New Year” to total strangers for the past few days, but we have made a real new Year’s Resolution to try to make you and all of our regular Kindle Nation sponsors especially happy this year, and here’s what we are doing about it, […]
I’m off for a couple of weeks on the Cape, but with greater than ever peace of mind for two main reasons. First, more than ever, it’s a terrific feeling to leave KND and our various sister sites in the especially capable hands of Candace, April, Paula, Mark, Sue, Betty and Tom. We’ve been around […]
In today’s Publetariat Dispatch, author Virginia Ripple discusses the art of critique. It’s come to my attention that there are a lot of us who don’t have a clue how to honestly critique. We can tell you we like your story (or hate it), but we leave out the most important part — the why. […]
Happy Halloween! We’ve had some scary weather in Boston this weekend, but readers and writers know it’s the perfect season for staying inside and reading (or writing) books! Make sure over 52,000 Kindle Nation readers know about your book with a sponsorship in November or December.
Steve Windwalker at KindleNation has written a great post about the double-barreled strategy by Amazon to give Apple a run for its money — and yours. He disagrees with a piece in The New York Times which suggests Apple is lowering prices without Amazon in mind. Check it out here: For starters, let’s look […]
Seems there are SO MANY people reading the new 656-page biography on Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson which was published yesterday. The Kindle edition was priced $16.99 versus the hardcover at $17.88 at their launch.I particularly noticed that it has Lending and Speech-to-Text switched off. Do you think as an indie author, this is the […]