I always pick the worst times to try new things. I'm up to my eyeballs in deadlines right now, but I've joined two new groups dedicated to learning about/and promoting e titles on Kindle/Nook, etc.
I find the topic endlessly fascinating, and there are so many aspects of it. Formatting documents to the various platforms, designing covers (and sometimes over and over again), and the most worrying aspect, how to get the word out about my E books/stories.
I've added a page on the Blogger version of this blog, but people aren't finding it. (I don't think blog readers are used to looking for additional information pages ON a blog.) I need to put something up on my Lorna web site as well, but just haven't gotten around to it. (That'll have to happen when some of the deadlines are past, too.)
I know this is probably as interesting as sawdust to most of you guys, and I apologize. But . . . I can't help but be interested in the whole new world open to me. I'm finding new readers every day and that's exciting.
What's piqued your interest lately?
My hubby bought me a Nook for my birthday and I have to say that I love it. Originally, I was in the "nothing like a real book" camp, but I've since changed my tune. I've downloaded a couple of novels from B&N as well as some freebies from the Gutenberg Project.
I'd be curious how the promotion discussion goes. We're in the electronic age now and already authors are promoting their works on their websites, blogs and through publisher email newsletters and so on. With submissions going through the internet rather than the snail mail (I'm guessing here on this one), it probably wouldn't take much to transfer a book to the EPub format at the same time, would it?
Posted by: Debbie D | August 30, 2010 at 07:39 AM