Apologies if this post is a jumbled mess. I've got a lot of things going on right now, 4 different tabs open with various things occupying space and my mind, and other personal stuff weighing me down on top of that. Having said that, I'm going to try to go over everything as best as I can.
Sunset High: Under Construction is officially published and available for purchase on the Amazon Kindle. For those who of you who are on my mailing list, you may have noticed that you didn't receive an announcement about this. Why? Because Amazon is glitching again and, as expected, has not yet updated the estimated page numbers. I contact Amazon but the original person who responded seems to have just blown it off. That was on 3/13. I sent another email to them again to let them know it needs to get fixed before I start promoting the book.
I am now truly grateful that the next book in the series won't be a second edit version. It will be a full and complete version so I shouldn't have to worry about this happening again.
In other Amazon news, I also noticed that my Author's page is being funky today . . . as in it's only displaying one of my books and not both of them. For some reason, Amazon has been super glitchy for me the last few months . . . not just on the KDP side, but also from the affiliate marketing side of things and their market place. There have been some days where I haven't been able to log into my affiliate account at all, and other days where the search function on Amazon for some categories seemed to be broken. It usually doesn't take them long to straighten out these problems, a day or two tops, but it's still annoying.
I have decided to also start publishing my work on Smashwords so that I can have access to a larger distribution network. This is my first time using Smashwords so I guess it will be a feel and go process. I'm intrigued by their coupon system though, so I might be testing it out sometime in the near future. It seems a bit more convenient than Amazon's 5 free days of promotion for every 90 days that your book remains exclusive to them.
I read on the Smashwords website today that they are currently working with Amazon on integrating their systems so that people can publish their books on Smashwords and have them distributed to all of the main ebook networks, Amazon included. This option currently isn't available to everyone yet. It will be super convenient when it is though, considering that Smashwords covers everyone except Amazon.
In other news, I will shortly be launching a much larger promotion campaign for my work. I plan on submitting a few press releases and exploring some other inexpensive promotion channels.
That's about it for now. I've been super busy lately so I haven't had time to get any work done. Hopefully tomorrow will be a more productive day.
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