http://fengshuiassassin.com/blog Karma is a dish best served cold Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:37:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I started along the self publishing route with the idea to gain some understanding of the publishing industry (or at least the business model for publishing). Tee hee - how naive! The 'getting the books printed into a physical thing' is a simple enough process. Publishing is a whole other ... http://fengshuiassassin.com/blog/2009/12/pros-and-cons-of-self-publishing/ Feng Shui Assassin started off as a labour of love - and as the years went by became a labour of loathe until, with much gnashing of teeth, it was completed in 2008. During the time of writing the urban fantasy genre exploded across the shelves of Ottakars (now Waterstones). Moody ... http://fengshuiassassin.com/blog/2009/12/thoughts-on-self-publishing/ Hmmmm. Amazon have seemed to have introduced a wierd pricing structure for their digital downloads. Buy Feng Shui Assassin as a downloadable ebook from the USA and you will pay 99c. Buy Feng Shui Assassin as a downloadable ebook from the UK (or anywhere else) then you pay the inflated price of ... http://fengshuiassassin.com/blog/2009/12/pricing-difference/ A great time for all booksellers - despite the glut of books released - only 5% of which will see the light of a Waterstones shelf front. A particular marketing push required for the impulse purchase of a book - or an e-book - especially for the e-books that are priced ... http://fengshuiassassin.com/blog/2009/11/christmas-shoppers/ Feng Shui Assassin is available on the Kindle. Oh boy. A very big thank you to Andrew (friend of Quirkster) for his hard work in setting up the Amazon account stateside and allowing me to upload the thing for our American believers. Next step was to give a little introduction and ... http://fengshuiassassin.com/blog/2009/08/kindlicious/ Thank you very much to Andrew from the States - cos with his help we have enabled Feng Shui Assassin as a Kindle download. Yay! You can have a Kindle gander here - Feng Shui Assassin. Exciting stuff. And over the weekend I'll draw up some thoughts on marketing and get down ... http://fengshuiassassin.com/blog/2009/08/kindle-booked/ The only sensible price for a self-pubbed book - offering Feng Shui Assassin as a downloadable ebook at 99 cents. Reached the final step of the easy-peasy process for offering a book on Kindle - only to be asked for an American address and bank details. Doh!! So am asking around ... http://fengshuiassassin.com/blog/2009/07/kindle-ebook-at-99c/ Argh! But yes - frustration and what-not. Uploading Feng Shui Assassin into Amazon's DTP program. Simple enough so far with some tags and price and piccy and author thingummy. Some brief surfing even confirmed that the same ISBN can be used for the eleccy version as the hardback (though may need ... http://fengshuiassassin.com/blog/2009/06/amazon-dtp/ Oh yeah - if it can't be free then make it cheap. Dog cheap. So gawddamn cheap that it'll slip into a shopping basket with a careless click and be swept up in the online purchase frenzy :) Feng Shui Assassin is getting re-priced to the rockbottom bargain ticket of 99 ... http://fengshuiassassin.com/blog/2009/06/99-cents-e-book/ With TT week quickly approaching (an event that will see 30,000 sweaty-arsed bikers descend onto the rock for the annual motorbike 'death race') I was keen to get some more exposure into the different book outlets on the Island. Feng Shui Assassin is steadily selling (about 1 a week) in one ... http://fengshuiassassin.com/blog/2009/05/distribution-blues-too/