Kindle Scout Campaign - Guide - Part 6
The Everett Exorcist was not picked for publication by Kindle Press. They sent me a long email detailing out their reasoning, and a significant part of it was the cover and the use of a rosary. I'm not too concerned because I think the rosary fits the genre and story perfectly, so I wouldn't have wanted to change those things anyway.
It's OverTime to move on. I'm working on finishing up books II and III and plan out my launch plan. I'm hoping to launch them all in rapid succession, so it'll be a little while before they are available for the world. In the short term, however, I'm also going to start working on some more projects and planning the next book to get out in the world.
So, this is only the end of the Kindle Scout journey for TEE, and there is still a long way for this book to go to get out into the world. I'm actually excited to be able to start making plans to launch it on my own and having complete control over everything because I have some cool ideas to try out I couldn't have used with Kindle Scout.
What comes next?One more post on the way after the acception/rejection from Amazon with details about everything surrounding the campaign and a little bit more information into the process.
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Could we please see the email detailing their (alleged) reasoning? Kindle Scout is famous for making no good sense about what they pick and what they don't, and for giving no explanation, so this would be a peek into the mysterious process—unless they REALLY have monkeys flip coins, and then make up "reasons."
The email sent by them was actually fairly long, and they don't generally offer email explanations behind their decision making. I think they made an exception for me because I had a book previously chosen.In general, it boiled down to:
1) We're sorry to send you this rejection.
2) The book is a little slow in the middle, and the genre you are in it needs to be punched up a little bit.
3) Your editing wasn't perfect (which, it wasn't...My editor couldn't actually look at the project until after the campaign ran because she was busy...that's my fault completely but I decided to run the campaign early because I figured they would overlook the editing problems and I wanted to make sure the campaign was over in time to build a solid launch before halloween one way or another)
4) The use of Iconography on the cover is something they aren't really interested in.
He said that in a much longer email. I can't really post it because almost all of it was about details of the book that I don't want to give away. He did get one thing wrong in that he thought this book was a sequel to my other series, rather than a prequel (which is a pretty sizable detail in the grand scheme of things) but he also made some good points about ambiguous details about time that were confusing so I can understand his error (a little bit).
They didn't end my campaign yet, which is odd, so it makes me think that the rejection came from a side angle (directly from the editor who said 'no thanks' but not through the usual channels). I'm thinking that after the 15 days are up it will automatically reject.
One thing I noticed: they accepted very few books in June and horror/urban fantasy doesn't seem to be something they are looking for right now at all.
I'm not too terribly worried about it and I'm planning to launch the entire series before the year is out (if I can). I definitely appreciate that they did send me a personal note about it.
