My First eBook: Part 1
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At the beginning of the year, as well as some ridiculous new year's resolutions, I came up with one that I actually aimed to do: release an eBook of short stories before 2014. It was part vanity and part ambition, I guess, because half of me just wants to see my name on a Kindle screen, and the other half hopes that there's something deeper within me than blind love of Lady Gaga, tattoos and Batman. So I set about writing some stories, or in most cases, collecting them from around this site (and fixing up the cracks I left in them, in my rush to post them online and gain attention for them). And now, nearly 6 months down, I have 23 stories ready for an eBook.
Yay! I hear you saying. When can we buy it?! Well, not yet. I've come up with the title of the collection, but I don't intend to shout about it yet. I've written the stories, but you're not seeing the exclusive ones yet. I don't have a cover, and I'm yet to work out how exactly I'm going to get it online (in case you've never published an eBook - you're probably in the minority by now - the choice I face now is Amazon, or a million other services which all promise me instant fame and fortune. But I don't know if I'm READY for fame and fortune yet!); so for now, I'm just opening up a series of blog posts in which I'll write about all the snags and funtimes of preparing and self-publishing an eBook, in the hope that it will help someone somewhere sometime in some way.
Then you have to buy it. You cheeky bastard.
Then you have to buy it. You cheeky bastard.