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This week I received my first electronic payment from Amazon for my Kindle e-book efforts, covering sales made during the last 10 days in May. It was only $107.53, but that’s money I didn’t have before. I now have five e-books available on Amazon’s Kindle bookstore, as well as a sixth book, The Step-by-Step Guide [...]
As I reported in my last blog, I uploaded my mystery novel Big Lake to Amazon’s Kindle e-book publishing program on Saturday, and it went live about noon on Sunday. I announced that the book was available in my RV blog, and by the end of the day, 26 copies had sold. I was really [...]
I currently have four self-published books in print, along with seven niche guides, a couple of informational CDs, and several more in the works. But you would be hard pressed to find any of them in a traditional bookstore. You can go to your favorite bookstore or Amazon and they can order them through the [...]
The newspaper industry is currently in a transition state. Just as you once purchased a pound of coffee, and now the container only holds about 13 ounces (for the same price), over the years newspapers have been going to smaller paper sizes to save money. A lifetime ago, when I was a greenhorn youngster just [...]
I will admit that I was slow to embrace online publishing. It cost me a lot of money. I had my original website www.gypsyjournal.net online for several years, but saw it only as a secondary marketing vehicle for our RVing books and guides. I had heard of blogs and blogging, and affiliate advertising programs, but [...]
That’s all there is to it. You don’t have to be a published author to call yourself a writer. You don’t have to be currently immersed in a book project. You don’t have to be actively involved with sending out query letters. But you do have to write. I write a daily average of anywhere [...]