News and Notices from the Writing Trenches #112…

Item. New plug-in. Amazon has just announced the “Kindle Instant Preview Widget.” It’s a plug-in to your website to allow visitors to view your writing samples (book excerpts, short stories, and so forth). If you’re an author with a website, you might like it, but I don’t see much use for it. First, I publish free short stories and book excerpts on my blog, and the “peek inside” on each Amazon book page allows readers to peruse my writing. I’d rather send readers there with links to the Amazo...