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No you don’t need to pay the $5 if you just want to write. Not paying it limits the number of stories you can read. And yes they do take fiction. Dale has written lots of it. Some on his own profile and some he’s submitted to some of their magazines. I’m not sure how they take the $5 monthly payment. I paid for the year upfront by card so I could read everyone else’s articles. Just before you publish an article, you also get to tag it and when you start typing in a tag word it’ll list the ones the system has and you can pick the ones that best fits your article/story/poems. You can choose up to five. Sam has published poems.
It’s not a big earner. I publish about 3 articles a week and earn less than $30 a month. It gets you out there.
A few of us use it. We post things on Medium and then post the link in the Medium posts threads on here. We catch up reading each others articles on Medium and clap for each others posts and comment as and when. If you're a part of the Medium partner program you can put your posts behind the paywall and any interaction you get from paying members ($5 a month or $50 a year), will earn you a small amount of money paid monthly into your account. I made back my membership costs in about four months and have made a small profit so far. You don't have to be a member to earn money but as a non member you'd only be able to read 3 articles a month. There are publications on there you can also write for.
I think I've got that lot right!
Kimberly, have you set yourself up on Medium.com? I don't earn much from that, but it's enough to keep me in coffee!
Great stuff. I don't like doing things on my phone, my fingers are not reliable enough.
I will catch up in a bit. I’ve started putting the author rolling blog posts on Mediumhttps://link.medium.com/JiQTHPzDMR
Does that link work? I’m on my phone, no idea what’s going on.
It's about as believable as a beluga whale in the Thames. No wait, that happened.
Really? Try mine, nothing is believable in what I write. Agatha Christie would not have made it as an indie author. Did they say what is unbelievable about it?
Towns in England been cut off by bad weather several times in the last few years.
I think five people were knifed to death in London last week.
A cheetah escaped from its enclosure into the deer enclosure in Howlett's the other month, there was hardly anything stopping that from getting out into public areas other than luck and some well placed keepers.
A couple of weeks ago the news reported sightings of a big cat loose somewhere in Scotland, turned out not to be a big cat, but it made the news.
What exactly is unbelievable about A Stone's Throw which is a work of, wait for it, FICTION.
You can tell I'm in a mood. And I'm still waiting for D2D to delist my latest from three places so I can dump it in KU.
I still haven’t figured out how you write for publications on Medium. Technically-what is the process? Is there a submission process?
I feel I would be very adept at squidging.
So here I am with the bright idea (alas, not mine) of putting one of my ebooks into KU. Superb, except that I have to drag it out of all the other channels first. Kobo dropped it as soon as I asked their system to. D2D got on top of iBooks and a few others. There are three left that D2D are still delisting. I don't do patience. It's been going on for days. There I was expecting it to be instant. Groan.
Currently feeling overwhelmed by nothing in particular. I think I'm done with being a human. I may try being a cat for a bit. Or a marshmallow. I could do squidgy.
You’ve got to be joking. It’s as much as I can do to come up with book titles lol
Yes kudos to anyone who can make a living out of self-publishing. My aim is to make coffee money. I like to keep it realistic! I am still waiting for three outlets to delist my 3rd book so I can throw it under the KU truck. I may get something from the Amazon ads if I'm exclusive to Amazon. (May, not will.)
And I haven't shifted a single ebook in weeks whether wide or on Kindle.
I think mentally I'd fair better if I could at least see a page being read a month rather than nothing and only me buying my paperbacks. I'm waiting for D2D to finish delisting and then I'll do KU. Maybe I'll get more use out of the Amazon Ads. So far they just cost me money and no sales.
Thank you so much for that.
I have no experience of that Magnus. I would imagine there’s nothing to stop a publishing house getting someone to write their own take on a submission from an unknown author. I’m having a rethink. As I’m basically only seeing sales when I buy my own paperbacks I’m seriously considering putting my books back into KU. Even the 3p I used to get it better than nothing.
The only reason I went wider than KU in the first place was because the first two books in my pen name were erotica and someone told me it was nigh on impossible to get them accepted by Apple. (Of course, for some reason I managed it with no problems.)
If I was selling books on other platforms there wouldn’t be a reason to change. I’ve never made more than a few quid at this and at this stage I feel I have nothing to lose.
Anyone any thoughts on this?
