Smashwords
For those of you who don't know, I'm a starving, struggling, self-published writer! And I've been trying to think up new ways to get readers and fans. I've already got my book 'It's My Mistake' published on Amazon.
Here's the link if you're interested: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0731KDJLZ
But I realised that sales have dried up, I've been lucky that one of my friends has been kind enough to buy, download, read and review it for me, and she actually asked me when I was writing Part 2 (I left the book on a cliffhanger just in case it did well and readers wanted more!)
But someone told me (or I read in a blog) a self-published author get's only 10% of his sales through Amazon, so I decided to reach out somewhere else to get my book sold.
That's when I came across Smashwords.
At first, I put up my book, and the website converts .doc (not a .docx so I found out, and had to convert my .docx into .doc!) into most formats online! It got approved really quickly (matter of minutes it seemed) and within a few hours I got my first sale! Already!
I'm not 100% sure how Smashwords words, I'm still trying to get my head around it, but so far it's paid off reaching out to this website.
Only, one thing I noticed, I got a notification to say that it's not on a 'Catalogue' because of the formatting. After finally finding a sample of my work from the website, I realised that my 'indents' weren't appearing.
So, I spent the whole day yesterday reformatting the book! Getting rid of indents and just adding spacing between paragraphs. And hey-presto! It's finally been premium approved (which I hope means it's on the Catalogue!)
And as you can see, I've already had two sales!
Here's a link to my book on Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/744287
I'm learning as I go, hopefully I'll be better equipped when my next book 'Rose Garden Sanatorium' is finished and ready to publish!
(Warning! Mature Content Recommended for ages 18+ due to sexual situations and language).
If you're interested in reading a sneaky chapter of 'It's My Mistake' check out this blog post for Chapter 1:
https://steemit.com/writing/@penny-rose/it-s-my-mistake-chapter-1
Chapter 2 is also up, read it here:
https://steemit.com/writing/@penny-rose/it-s-my-mistake-chapter-2-warning-mature-content-strong-language
I have also put up some sneaky chapters of 'Rose Garden Sanatorium' check them out in the links below:
https://steemit.com/writing/@penny-rose/rose-garden-sanatorium-prologue
https://steemit.com/writing/@penny-rose/rose-garden-sanatorium-chapter-1
https://steemit.com/writing/@penny-rose/rose-garden-sanatorium-chapter-2
I also have a short story:
https://steemit.com/writing/@penny-rose/my-normal-a-short-story
Feel free to follow me on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/penny_hoops
And on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/PennyRHooper/
https://www.facebook.com/penny.hooper.980
Not trying to be a grammar Nazi, but I just read the first chapter and I noticed a grammatical error. I hope you don't mind me pointing it out.
"....I groaned and stood up from the hard and uncomfortable plastic chair that I was sat on", instead of "sat on", you probably meant to write "sitting on".
I know how one edits and reedits, their drafts to make them sound perfect and sometimes it leads to little errors like this. I just hope you corrected it, in your final draft!
Is it a harlequin type of novel? The first chapter is intriguing... :)
Thank you @fuchsia.ink! :D
Feel free to point them out, how else will I learn. ;)
Luckily for Smashwords and Amazon, you can update them easily!
Awesome! :) Wishing you loads of luck and success!
Thank you!
Love the book cover ^_^
Thank you @leyla5!
I did it myself. And the one for my other book 'Rose Garden Sanatorium', I wrote a post about how I create book covers if you're interested!
https://steemit.com/design/@penny-rose/how-i-created-my-book-cover
Upvoted as I'm all for helping starving writers
Haha! Thank you @sgaz!
I will support you, God bless you, I learn english, so if I made some mistakes, then I apologize and keep it and check me out @kamranbhatti
thank you very much
非常感谢你
您好 Nin hao @kamranbhatti, thank you for the support!
谢谢
(I hope my chinese is correct, I learnt a few words a while ago).
Yeah good
I feel lots of energy in your writing and finding the ways to be published… I believe there will be the ways, and Your Word will be food for those who need)))