First, let me be clear about what I didn’t get: a contract with Kindle Press. Nope, I didn’t get enough votes to have my novel, The Depth of Beauty, promoted by that entity. Was I disappointed about that? Sure. For a while at least. I put a lot of effort (or so I thought) into the thirty-day campaign, and there’s no getting around it: when you set a goal and don’t reach it, that’s a bummer. But here’s what I did get out of the experience: A marketing email that will be sent directly to ... VIEW POST
Seven Ways to Promote Your Book on Kindle Scout
I am winding down my 30-day promotional campaign for my new book, The Depth of Beauty, on Kindle Scout. That’s the program where readers go to the KS website, sample the book and hopefully nominate it for publication by Kindle Press. Here’s my link: http://amzn.to/1ElzAQL The selection committee at Kindle Scout doesn’t spell out what you need to do in order to have your book pass muster with them. I assume you need a lot of nominations, even though I’m not sure what constitutes “a ... VIEW POST
Why Kindle Scout Makes Sense to Me …
...But Might Not Make Sense to You. Have you heard of the (relatively) new quasi-crowdshare program called Kindle Scout? I say “quasi” because it doesn’t involve donating money, but it is all about reader input. Kindle Scout launched last fall, but is apparently still so new that many of the Kindle customer service operators I spoke to recently hadn’t even heard of it! I did get my questions answered eventually, however, so I decided to put my latest novel, The Depth of Beauty, into the ... VIEW POST
