Cat's Ass Logo and KDP Select
Beginning with KDP Select: I've been following blog posts of this. I understand how it works somewhat better now. I still don't like what it's done to the market (monopoly anyone?), but I have decided to make use of it. No, not for The Soulstone Chronicles. No way I will remove that from Lulu and therefore iTunes. Actually, I have an email with links to show me how to get the series onto Kobo, but I set it aside for a bit because the process is a little complicated and my brain melted.
Books on KDP Select are free to download on certain days the author can schedule, and because they are free that day, they show up in the list as free, which means attention directed toward that book and, hopefully, an increase in sales for other books. Five days of free download can be scheduled for three months of contract. That's just the stupidest thing ever. Five days for an even three months. My math OCD wants to add a digit to the five. Why is Amazon being cheap and not giving us six days for three months?
Ok, so despite the five instead of six days, I chose an older short story to use as my KDP Select experiment, an experiment I hope will bring attention to my other work. I spent the last two days melting my brain further converting and re-converting the doc file and testing the ePUB and Kindle versions until I had the correct format with all the tweaks in the original story I wanted. This is a 17 K short erotic fiction story meant to become a series of short fiction stories, not necessarily erotic in each chapter. The Beast in Beauty is something I wrote in 2006 when Erotic Dreams Publishing existed. I still have two reviews up on the internet for it. I shall link them now:
Fallen Angels Review
BDSM Reviews
I had a good review by M.E. Ellis too, but that blog was pulled down and rebuilt elsewhere. I know Emmy gave me permission to post the review on my defunct website, but I can't find the permission, so I'm going to ask her again and post the review on the blog later. Unless I have it on my blog somewhere already. I have to check that. Thinking through my keyboard, sorry.
I had to think up a series name for my short fiction series and arrived at Gold Bites.
Meanwhile, and back before Christmas, I had an artwork epiphany concerning perspective and drew a cat's butt. A cat's butt, it turns out, is much easier to draw than a cat's front. But it took me many decades to figure that out. Two of my progeny are very artistic when it comes to pencils, paint, craft materials. I think all the stuff they've been showing me nudged my failed artist alter-ego out of the tangle of personalities in my head and it gave me ass. I mean cat's ass.
Then, about two days ago, I realized I might actually have something there. It wasn't that bad a drawing really. If I use my better talent at photo manipulation, it might make a logo, a logo I could pin at the end of my ebooks.
And there it is. I spent part of yesterday perfecting it. I added it to my short fiction pub. Then my daughter said, "You need to initial it." She was right. More hours of fiddling with photo manipulation ensued.
I had already spent time coming up with my author signature. I took the initials from the author signature and added them to the logo and re-uploaded my story to Amazon.
And then I came up with a posterized version of the logo. And darn it but I want to re-upload to Amazon again (Yes, OCD).
But there it is, I have a logo. It's the cat's ass.
Really, it's my cat's ass. He's walked off in a huff bazillions of times with his tail swishing off to the side like that. Cat's are huffy.
Oh, yes. Haven't forgotten to work on Redemption 2, just wanted to drive more attention to my series through this experiment. I'll get back to the edit now. :-)
Books on KDP Select are free to download on certain days the author can schedule, and because they are free that day, they show up in the list as free, which means attention directed toward that book and, hopefully, an increase in sales for other books. Five days of free download can be scheduled for three months of contract. That's just the stupidest thing ever. Five days for an even three months. My math OCD wants to add a digit to the five. Why is Amazon being cheap and not giving us six days for three months?
Ok, so despite the five instead of six days, I chose an older short story to use as my KDP Select experiment, an experiment I hope will bring attention to my other work. I spent the last two days melting my brain further converting and re-converting the doc file and testing the ePUB and Kindle versions until I had the correct format with all the tweaks in the original story I wanted. This is a 17 K short erotic fiction story meant to become a series of short fiction stories, not necessarily erotic in each chapter. The Beast in Beauty is something I wrote in 2006 when Erotic Dreams Publishing existed. I still have two reviews up on the internet for it. I shall link them now:
Fallen Angels Review
BDSM Reviews
I had a good review by M.E. Ellis too, but that blog was pulled down and rebuilt elsewhere. I know Emmy gave me permission to post the review on my defunct website, but I can't find the permission, so I'm going to ask her again and post the review on the blog later. Unless I have it on my blog somewhere already. I have to check that. Thinking through my keyboard, sorry.
I had to think up a series name for my short fiction series and arrived at Gold Bites.
Meanwhile, and back before Christmas, I had an artwork epiphany concerning perspective and drew a cat's butt. A cat's butt, it turns out, is much easier to draw than a cat's front. But it took me many decades to figure that out. Two of my progeny are very artistic when it comes to pencils, paint, craft materials. I think all the stuff they've been showing me nudged my failed artist alter-ego out of the tangle of personalities in my head and it gave me ass. I mean cat's ass.
Then, about two days ago, I realized I might actually have something there. It wasn't that bad a drawing really. If I use my better talent at photo manipulation, it might make a logo, a logo I could pin at the end of my ebooks.
And there it is. I spent part of yesterday perfecting it. I added it to my short fiction pub. Then my daughter said, "You need to initial it." She was right. More hours of fiddling with photo manipulation ensued.
I had already spent time coming up with my author signature. I took the initials from the author signature and added them to the logo and re-uploaded my story to Amazon.
And then I came up with a posterized version of the logo. And darn it but I want to re-upload to Amazon again (Yes, OCD).
But there it is, I have a logo. It's the cat's ass.
Really, it's my cat's ass. He's walked off in a huff bazillions of times with his tail swishing off to the side like that. Cat's are huffy.
Oh, yes. Haven't forgotten to work on Redemption 2, just wanted to drive more attention to my series through this experiment. I'll get back to the edit now. :-)
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