These are eleven stories that are episodes in the life of Brull, the Magician Bounty Hunter.
The link to the Smashwords book page is:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/91106
I'm sort of excited. It only took me about three hours to get it up and accepted. The format's a little funky, but that's ebooks for you.
Do you have any lessons learned/notes for the unwary? Best of luck, hope you're rolling in the dough soon...ish.
you've done this more than I have. I'm still waiting for Premium status from Smashwords. In order to use their MeatGrinder program, I pulled all of my Brull stories into Scrivener, which has its own editor, and then after I finished edit after edit after edit, I uploaded it to MS Word. That produced a very clean manuscript. Then I edited and edited and edited, still finding error after error after error. I put in a table of contents, that was a bit tricky and fiddled with some formatting and published. Then I published a draft and published a draft and published a draft (six in all) until I got a product that was reasonable.
I think the key thing is to practice, if you're doing it yourself. Someone on Hatrack used Scrivener to create a .mobi file directly. I'll try that next.
There are some technical issues, but I passed Smashword's 'Auto-Vetter' each time, so the Word to Scrivener to Word technique worked well.
It's now a marketing challenge, which I will address in the coming weeks. I'm building a Brull story line in Twitter (@BrullofThura) and will need to do some work to drive followers. I also set up a Guy Antibes website (that's a pseudonym ) at http://www.guyantibes.com I've got some WIP that I have to get into shape, but it is publishable (self-publishable) in the near future. Two novels to go before the end of the year.
I think beginning writers have to have a bunch of content in order out there in order to generate any reasonable return.
It will take time.
Have you done any marketing yet, KayTi?
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I used Scrivener to output a .mobi file - it's just a couple of clicks to get it going. You can't upload your own .mobi to Smashwords, but you can upload it to Kindle.
I didn't join Smashwords yet but I intend to. How are the payments done? Do I need a PayPal account or is a Visa card enough?
Correction: just joined.
[This message has been edited by MartinV (edited September 28, 2011).]