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I have decided to self publish. After a period of thinking hard about why I write, and after a series of rejections from some higher end genre magazines, I am now going to self publish my work. The millions will come later, I hear, but the most important thing for me is that people can read and (hopefully) enjoy my stories.
I have started off with a fantasy/horror short story called Washed Ashore. It's only 13 pages, 5,000 words or so, and has been available on Kindle for the past 2 days. It sold 3 copies in the US before I was able to start a promotion to give it away for free, though one of these has since been refunded. The free promotion began this morning and it's currently sitting on 17 downloads.
Longer term, I'm hoping to give away another short story towards the end of the year and self publish my first novel/novella in early 2015 - This will be the first thing I purposefully charge for.
It's been very interesting to read the self-publishing blogs of others. Hopefully someone will get a kick out of my ramblings here.
I have started off with a fantasy/horror short story called Washed Ashore. It's only 13 pages, 5,000 words or so, and has been available on Kindle for the past 2 days. It sold 3 copies in the US before I was able to start a promotion to give it away for free, though one of these has since been refunded. The free promotion began this morning and it's currently sitting on 17 downloads.
Longer term, I'm hoping to give away another short story towards the end of the year and self publish my first novel/novella in early 2015 - This will be the first thing I purposefully charge for.
It's been very interesting to read the self-publishing blogs of others. Hopefully someone will get a kick out of my ramblings here.