All right - so I have sent off my cleaned-up manuscript to Kindle Scout. Now they go over it and just so long as they don't find any nasty bits or possibly a coded manifest dealing with my eventual conquest of the entire known universe they will contact me for an update to my financial details. I don't believe that will be any more complicated than getting myself signed up as a KDP author was, so I am not worried. I'll keep you folks updated upon any new tidbits in the process as I go along.
One thing I did find out is that the process for getting a second book into Kindle Scout has been significantly streamlined. As far as I understand it - once an author has had ONE Kindle Scout submission accepted he can then contact the Kindle Scout crew and submit directly WITHOUT going through the whole thirty day Kindle Scout ritual. That is really big news for me, because I am already beginning to rough out a draft for my second Kelpie novel and I see no reason not to get that second book right out there with Kindle Scout, just as soon as it is written - which might be as long as six months from now.
I know that some folks with more experience in the indie publishing field would rather hang onto the rest of their series novels even though they have got one of them in out under the Kindle Scout banner. That works for them - but me, I have always been an hybrid author so I am quite used to the idea that the promotion of some of my books is completely ruled by the publisher. So the thought of me not having my Kelpie novels on my dashboard and under my control does not bother me at all. To my way of thinking my Kindle Scout books are simply going to grow into another arm of my own peculiar publishing ambitions. The folks who publish my regional books have seven of my books under their control. That's one cash flow into my bank account. Kindle Scout has one book and before the end of the year I hope to sell them another. That'll be another source of cash flow into my bank account. Then there are my nearly fifty independently released e-books and Createspace paperbacks. That is a third source of cash flow.
I like diversity. I don't mind giving up a bit of promotional control to Kindle Scout for the powerful promoting muscles that they offer to me.
Eventually I would like to see a few of my books involved in other Kindle publishing ventures. The way that I see it right now every single hook that I sink into that great Amazonian whale is going to pull my own little publishing boat all that much further out into the deep green ocean.
You know - I probably ought to have a little more coffee before I keep mangling these metaphors as I am doing.
Let's get on with the list, shall we?
Congratulations to DEBBIE CASSIDY whose book FOREST OF DEMONS will be published by Kindle Press.
Good luck also to JOAN MARIE VERBA whose book MODERN SURPRISES is now twisting slowly in the breeze, awaiting the verdict of Kindle Scout.
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Happy scouting to you!
