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Year-end Ebook Store Report Card

Apparently not all ebook stores are equal. At least as far as my ebook experiment is concerned. When I decided to publish Fairy Tale Fail digitally via the Amazon Kindle Store in April 2010, it wasn't because I did my research and found it to be the best platform. I didn't care, and just wanted the book to be available to as many people as possible, and Amazon made it relatively easy for me to

First round of thanks for No Strings Attached readers

No Strings Attached has been out for a week, and here's my first round of shoutouts to the people who've been so generous with their time (and money).Thank you, Chachic, Tina, Lee, Layla, Hazel N, Tin, M and popandcrackle!And to address a few things that I read/heard in the first week:From Chachic's review: "The focus isn't the build up of the love story but rather the complications involved in

No Strings Attached

From the back cover:Carla is a whiz at her job: she's efficient, reliable, and a total genius when it comes to putting something together at the last minute. The snag is she's single and turning the big three-oh in a few months. Her girl best friend (yes, she's married just like the other girls in Carla's barkada) keeps trying to set her up with stable banker-types, while her guy best friend (

I will never get tired of these posts I guess

November has beaten October as Fairy Tale Fail's best month ever. Amazon also launched (finally) a way to give Kindle books as gifts, even to people who have never opened a Kindle account, so this might even get better. (I hope!) If anything it's taught me that momentum is a big part of the ebook success thing -- a big promo push in the beginning helps, but also constant buildup. That said,

Paper again, and word counts

FTF paperback update: Batch 1 is all out, but I'm expecting batch 2 to arrive in a few weeks. Sorry about the delay -- apparently I'm bad at figuring out supply and demand. (Good thing I'm not an economist!) Please be OK with being batch 2. :)The books got some exposure on the interwebs this week by being featured on Chachic's Book Nook. It's always exciting, especially now that I've come out and

FTF Kindle report card

This graph represents Fairy Tale Fail's sales figures on the Amazon Kindle Store in its first six months. It's not at all at the level of quitting my day job, but for an indie publishing experiment you can probably see why I'm excited. I don't know what accounts for the spike, but my theories:- Changing the price from $1.89 to $0.99- Tina at One More Page's review- Joining Goodreads and the

Fairy Tale Fail paperback live in Manila - another experiment

A small batch of Fairy Tale Fail paperbacks are now here in Manila, and for sale.Price: P350.00Pickup point: Salcedo St, Makati City.Email minavesguerra[at]gmail[dot]com for details and other possible pickup points. :)The batch is small because, frankly, as a reader I am a cheapskate and I rarely pay P350.00 for books nowadays. I'm not sure how many people would buy it at this price when it's

Getting Pinoys back on more reading lists

There's some interesting talk going on at different Filipino book blogs about local publishing, genres, marketing books via social media, and then some. Jump in via Tina's post at One More Page and follow the links like breadcrumbs.Their topics are things that have been floating around in my head for a while, especially in the past year or so, since I was first published, and since I started

Fairy Tale Fail on good old paper

Fairy Tale Fail [Paperback:]Mina V. EsguerraPrice: $7.99 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. DetailsIt's here! It wasn't easy getting a paperback version out, but now it's here and it's pretty. Much as I love the ebook adventure, I did enjoy getting a paperback of FTF and placing it on my shelf.The title's been up on the Kindle Store for almost five months now and the

Heads up: "Mockingjay" (The Hunger Games Trilogy, Book 3) Book Launch

Found out about this via my Goodreads group. I haven't read any of the Hunger Games books (unless you count the few pages I browsed at a Fully Booked branch recently), but I support the idea of this launch. I love that these books have enough of a fan base for a party. And that they're really excited about it. I wish them a great fandomy time. :)