Kris Wampler, author of Love Train, has a blog that highlights indie authors, which includes books that were self published or released by small presses. Which means Painted Black qualifies!
Check out my author interview on the site. I was also able to talk a little bit about the short stories I published and what I am doing to promote my work.
Debra Borys stays busy with a number of writing projects: from freelancing to writing novels. Having experience working with a start-up press, she gives insight about the amount of promotional work all authors must do, and some of the methods she’s already adopted.
More info on Kris’s book, Love Train, can be found here.
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January 31st, 2012 at 14:50
I’m a huge fan of Kris’s blog. I read your interview and was jealous to learn you found uploading your manuscripts so doable. I encountered so many technical difficulties I gave up. After blogging about my frustration, I calmed down and hired a professional formatter to format a 15,000 story for Smashwords and Amazon. Luckily, the charge was minimal for such a short novelette. HTML is not my strong point.
I also want to wish you good luck on Painted Black, It’s one of the more original ideas I’ve heard in a while.
January 31st, 2012 at 15:38
Thanks for the compliment on Painted Black. I hope other readers find it original, too, and enjoy the story.
I was so happy to find Kris’s blog and get a chance to be highlighted on it. I’ve got the site bookmarked now and intend to visit more often. It’s a great site.
The short stories I uploaded were shorter than yours, sounds like, except for my Weeping Widows collection. So that might be one reason why I had less problems. Also, mine were simple files, no images, table of contents or anything like that. Amazon was the easiest–it was not much different than uploading a regular Word file.
Smashwords took a little more work because it doesn’t like all the formatting codes Word uses, so I stripped out everything I could from the document before trying. It did take me a couple of uploads to get it to work right, though.