The big reason I am reorganizing how I write into a Grand Strategy is that after I completed Home To Texas and put it up as a Kindle Book, I found that I could not use the KDP Select program to help me promote it. I had published it here in installments.
But wait, I have not asked anyone at Amazon specifically about having the book on the web as a serialization!
So at this point in time, I am going to go ahead with some options:
- I can provide sample chapters of what I am working on from books I plan to publish on Amazon
- I can contribute any of my work that I don't plan to publish on Amazon
- I can serialize stories in draft, then go back and change some plot or character elements to publish a different book to Amazon
- And maybe, just maybe, Amazon only cares if the work is available digitally as a complete work. This is the question I need to ask them.
Current Fiction Index
I will suggest that you index your own work. Due to Steemit's nature, your readers may lose a chapter or two in your story line. In order to make it easier on your readers, you might want to consider indexes or link-chains. Cheetah may yell , but these devices can help you readers move from chapter to chapter easily. I wouldn't suggest an index of everything that you write if you cover a lot of subjects, but a post indexing your fiction in one blog, and then another covering your criminal justice thoughts in another may just be the ticket. It might also help YOU keep track of what your doing.
I am planning on mirroring my Steemit work on WordPress to make indexing easier, perhaps as just a summary of the story with the link back to Steemit
Home To Texas: Recollections of a Texas Badman
The story of a Texas man that runs off to be a Rebel, and never really comes home again. Violence and sex are the main themes here, and the character is a mean sonofabitch that doesn't consider himself as mean so much as he justs wants to be “let be”
Part One, in which Wallace Stevens returns home from the Civil War, then joins the Texas Rangers.
Part Two, wherein our desperado steals a Comanche princess and deserts the Rangers.
Part Three, in which Wallace attempts to return home again yet to put himself into more trouble.
Part Four describes the shootist's adventures as a hired gun in Mexico.
Part Five, wherein Wallace reminisces over his favorite weapons.
Part Six returns the gunman to New Orleans, where he joins a buffalo hunting crew.
Part Seven in which Wallace reflects on killing and the War.
Part Eight relates the tale of buffalo hunting and the last of the buffalo Indians.
Part Nine, wherein Wallace reflects upon his life with the fairer sex
Part Ten brings misfortune to our unreconstructed rebel.
Part Eleven, in which Wallace is quartered in Austin far longer than he'd like.
Part Twelve brings Wallace face to face with Austin's Jack the Ripper, a fiendish killer of women.
Part Thirteen, in which the pardoned outlaw suffers his greatest losses
Part Fourteen brings the saga of the Texas gunman to a close. Does he deserve a happy ending?
An Afterward to "Home To Texas"
Character Analyis of Wallace and Family
Home To Texas: Recollections of a Texas Badman on Amazon, 99 cents.
Go Back Where You Come From
A science fiction story in which ET isn't so nice and cuddly, and which his victims aren't holding up “Welcome” signs to their own destruction.
Go Back Where You Come From – Prologue, the setting of those lights in the sky
A Creation Myth - Stars and Spears
A short story and my own lttle creation myth*
A Creation Myth - Stars and Spears
Halloween/Ghost comedy
La Llorona tried to steal me from my girlfriend, a Halloween comedy
The Shadow Vipers
A dark fantasy exploring a master magician and his student in power; which moral path will she take?
The Shadow Vipers - Prologue and Part 1
A cloaked rider inflicts vicious justice on a den of thieves
The Shadow Vipers, Part 2
The Master takes his new student into his bed, and delves into her head
Tale of the Lancer
Tale of the Lancer, Part 1 (Fantasy Military Fiction)
A cavalary troop escapes from supernatural doom; their officers know more than they are saying
The King and the Hangman
A “swords not sorcery” fantasy focusing on a grim warlord and a sexy little elf chick
The King and The Hangman (part 1)
The last King of the Fay must decide whether to allow a Human warlord to pass through his lands
The King and The Hangman (part 2)
Negotiations tense even further as the King's daughter sets her lustful eyes on this Human at Court
The King and The Hangman (Part 3)
The King confronts his daughter, and a duel threatens the negotiations.
I hoe em, you grow em
This is a series of story beginnings. I like writing that “opening scene”, but I'm not always invested in finishing the story. So these are open to having someone else run off with them.
The "I hoe em, you grow em" series - Need a story idea? Look here: hoeemngrowem
Making a Haunted House out of a Haunted House
An Inkling of the Guilty Party (modern ghost fantasy)
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I did a link chain on my previous story with no cheetah.
I think cheetah only roars when you repost too much of something in your current post; I may have to delete that line ;>
This is A BRILLIANT idea! Please follow up with what you find out from Amazon! I like the collaboration idea you have here...I might spin it & use it as I have many story ideas. I just have a hard time following through and fleshing out an entire book/novel/novella.
What I thought was a full novel turned out to be a novella LOL.
I'm glad you like that tag, it never got a lot of traction ;>
I will let you know about Amazon...that is huge.
Thanks ;>
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