Bored? I have another book out you can read

[dkersten]

For those who liked my first book, The Freezer, I have a new short book out (roughly 65 pages, a 1-2 hour read) on Amazon.  The title is "The Paradox Cycle".  It's priced at 99 cents and available free if you have Prime or Kindle Unlimited.  Oddly enough, I make 4 times the royalty if someone borrows it with Prime or KU than if I sell a copy (as long as they read past 10 percent).  If you like sci fi, particularly stuff dealing with time travel (or stories of the unlikely nerd getting the girl), then give it a try.

Here's the link on Amazon.com: http://amzn.to/17SvnV4
(it looks weird, but it's a bitly link so I can track traffic)

And in case you missed my last shameless self promotion, here is the link to The Freezer, my 400 page novel: http://amzn.to/1Eouv5p

I am about 30% done with the sequel to The Freezer, but I woke up a week ago with a vivid idea for a new story and decided to try my hand at writing a shorter book.  I figured it would take me a few weeks, but I was so inspired I knocked it out in less than a week.  Hopefully it doesn't suck, lol.  25,000 words in about 35 hours (that includes 3 passes for editing).  It took me about 1200 hours to write The Freezer, which is 160,000 words. 

BTW, if anyone here has a manuscript they would like to see published some day and want to try their hand at self publishing, let me know, I have learned a ton about publishing and marketing books in the past couple months.  I am always happy to share.

[BorgDog]

Cool David.  I'll borrow it then instead of buying    Does that show up in your "sales" number though?

EditDoh, guess not.  You have to actually have a Kindle device to use the Kindle Owners Lending Library with Prime, at least as far as I can tell.

[dkersten]

Yeah, I just figured that out, lol.  You actually have to have a Kindle device (fire tablet, fire phone, or Kindle reader), and even the app doesn't work.    I thought something went wrong with the process because there was an issue last week with the way the borrow programs were being displayed.  The crazy thing is I have borrowed a few books on Prime and I swore I did it from my PC browser, but I guess I was using my Kindle Fire..

Thank you VERY much for checking it out!  I really hope it is worth the 99 cents!  I think it's good, but I am a bit biased, lol.

For anyone interested in info about KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) :
When I get a borrow, it shows up on my sales graph as a KU/KOLL "sale" after the person reads 10%.  However, it affects my ranking immediately, which is always something interesting.  On slow days I can watch my ranking go up if I get borrows, even if they don't show up on my graph.  I already hit #95 in the ebooks-->sci fi-->time travel genre, lol.
Royalties are 35% for books priced from 99 cents to $2.98, 70% for books priced $2.99 and up.  KU/KOLL borrows that reach 10% read pay a royalty of about $1.37 each, although that number gets determined after the month is over (so it could go up or down).  It has been going down because a lot of people scam the system by putting together 10 page "books" that look legit, but after they get borrowed and read (only need to read 1 page to hit 10%) the user realizes it is only 10 pages and usually just 10 pages of stuff copied and pasted from the internet, but the person already got paid.  People throw hundreds of these up each day and even if they only get a few borrows before they get bad reviews and stop getting looked at, they start to make really good money for very little effort.  And that takes away from the pool of funds for the program.  Erotica sells like crazy, even if it isn't that good (from what I hear anyway, lol), and there are people with 70-100 short erotica stories that are raking in $10K + per month on this program.  These are 30-50 page stories.  I wrote The Paradox Cycle in basically a weekend and had it edited within a week, and that actually took time because I had to think it through carefully to get a decent story.  I'm thinking it's time to fire up a pen name and crank out a few "dear penthouse" letters and start raking in some cash, lol.  

[BorgDog]

Just "purchased" with funds from the Prime shipping promotion where you select slower shipping and they give you a dollar credit for music or ebooks or something.   Anyway, it was essentially free for me.  It's on the to read list.    I think you can borrow it on the browser as long as you actually own a Kindle device.

[dkersten]

Thanks!  I hope you enjoy it!  Please feel free to leave a review on Amazon when you are done (I can use all the help I can get with reviews, lol). 

Actually, I found out today you cannot borrow it (at least with Prime) on a regular browser, which was what threw me off today.  I thought I had used a browser to borrow it and send it to my kindle in the past.  Apparently you can't though, which really sucks.  I have 3 kindle devices now (one is my daughter's) and although it says I can borrow it for free, there is no button for it.  I accidentally purchased my own book today trying to find it, lol.