The End of a (Brief) Era: Kindle Vella Shuts Down

I blogged about Kindle Vella when I first joined the platform back in 2021, and have mentioned it a few times since. Sadly, it was just announced on October 28, 2024, that Kindle Vella will officially shut down in February 2025. The only reason given was that the platform hadn’t “caught on as they’d hoped.”

The platform had a lot of promise and I really enjoyed posting my stories there before repackaging them as novels. The audience unfortunately remained small, despite my best efforts to...