Category Archives: Kindle

A funny thing happened…

A funny thread happened over on Kindleboards this week. A very legitimate fellow signed up and posted a thread about how hard literary agents are looking through the self-pubbed ranks of indie authors for their next big signing. He encouraged people who’d sold healthy numbers of their books to contact him, and he’d put them …

August 12, 2011 – 6:07 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in Kindle | Tagged , | Comments (0)

REVIEW: Coexist by Julia Crane

Coexist, the first novel in a planned series, and an outright first novel ever by Julia Crane, is a paranormal romance with an Irish flair. It’s a tale of elves and love and destiny, the struggle between light and dark, and the consequences of war. And yes, part of the novel – a very important …

July 12, 2011 – 3:22 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in Kindle, Reviews | Tagged , | Comments (1)

Moving into short novels for a while

Now that MOST LIKELY is out, I have one book at $2.99, but no high-demand books at the $0.99 price point, so rather than going back to EMBER immediately, I’m going to side-track a bit and work on a couple short novels, between 20,000 and 30,000 words, that I can feel good about pricing at …

June 5, 2011 – 4:43 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in Kindle | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

REVIEW: Jenny Pox by J.L. Bryan

JENNY POX takes on the challenge of making a heroine out of a young girl gifted with supernatural powers of a solely destructive nature. Fitting nicely into the paranormal romance/paranormal suspense genre, the only drawback is a potential parental concern. Although focused on high-school-age main characters, the book will not fit the tastes of all …

April 25, 2011 – 11:19 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in Kindle, Reviews | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Nearing mid-point

As I’m working away on EMBER, I’m now approaching the mid-point of my novel. Characters are established and in place. Threats are out there, establishing their “threatiness.” Interesting stuff has been going down, but now, soon, the action is going to ramp up in a big way. This is where a novel can either rise …

February 28, 2011 – 2:31 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in creativity, Kindle | Tagged , | Comments (0)

EMBER progressing well

As you might know if you’ve visited my author blog, my novel EMBER is coming along quite well. Last week I blew my weekly forward progress goal away, and I’ve already just about done the same this week. EMBER is over 27K words at this point, and 30K could be a realistic goal by Sunday. …

February 4, 2011 – 12:43 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in Kindle | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Legible covers

One of the key ingredients to success in eBooks is to take a whole new approach to eBook cover design. One must focus beyond what looks good on hardcover or paperback. One must consider and reconsider cover design for the digital format. Book covers for eBooks can be made in color, but most eReaders display …

December 26, 2010 – 2:11 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in creativity, Kindle | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

A cold has a way of sapping NaNoWriMo momentum

I’ve been struggling with a nasty cold since Thursday and it’s really sapped my energy and drained all the momentum from me in my enthusiasm for completing my NaNoWriMo novel on time. EMBER is making good progress, but it’s starting to look doubtful that I’ll complete it in November. Not even 50,000 words of it. …

November 22, 2010 – 12:14 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in creativity, Kindle, NaNoWriMo | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Price considerations

There’s a lot of talk over price at Kindleboards, as it relates to eBooks. Kindle authors who write fiction instead of about, say, the best acne treatments, have a Catch-22. To please bargain-minded readers, there’s pressure to price our books low… $2.99 or even as low as $0.99. That’s because people say at $2.99, we …

October 27, 2010 – 9:37 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in Kindle | Tagged , , | Comments (1)

Market your story, not your price

I’ve been a record over at Kindleboards.com later, in the Writer’s Cafe, and there’s been a lot of talk there lately about how to price eBooks appropriately “as part of a successful marketing plan,” especially as it relates to new and unknown authors. I’m going to suggest that making price the major concern of a …

September 16, 2010 – 1:24 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in Kindle | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

MobiPocket works great

I decided to test out MobiPocket this weekend so that I can gain experience and confidence with it as a tool when it comes time to ePublish my first book; I used it to transform my MS Word document, a Torah commentary for the dual parashah of Nitsavim and VaYelech, into a Kindle-compatible format. Why …

September 4, 2010 – 9:05 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in Kindle | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Finally rolling on my novel and more

I’m finally making progress on my new novel; not Thirty Minutes or Less, my long-suffering, re-started many times because of hard drive crashes supernatural mystery, but my newer one. It’s starting to flow, which is good. Plus I have all my material pulled together for my theological books on the Messianic movement. It was a …

August 26, 2010 – 11:52 PM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in Kindle, writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)