Recent content by katelynschoumaker

I did - I have expanded distribution. I'm glad I have ED so my book can be sold across multiple marketplaces, but my concern is how these people got their hands on the book in the first place. It looks like they're hoping to drop ship - buy the book from Amazon when a customer buys it from their...

For my self-published authors: have any of you noticed or been told that your book is being sold on eBay? I just found out that mine (published exclusively through Amazon on August 8) is being sold from the UK and Australia on eBay through a company/business called the Nile. It retails on Amazon...

I love when weapons have names! GRRM does it best: Dark Sister, Longclaw, Oathkeeper, Lightbringer. I like how it seems that most of his weapons are named after something significant to their first wielders. For example, the sword is called Dark Sister because its first wielder was Visenya...

Not a bad thing at all! I noticed a little bit of that with my MC and it rubbed me the wrong way at first, but it doesn't bother me so much anymore. Most of my readers so far have been friends and family, and they haven't said anything about noticing similarities between me and my MC - so I feel...

Woohoo!

9/5/2024 UPDATE After (once again) experiencing the chaos that is Kindle Create, I finally figured out why it wouldn't import my files. It was smooth sailing from there, and now the ebook is officially available for purchase!

Don't trash it!!! The book I just published sat in a folder on my computer for 5 years - I went back and forth over whether I wanted to delete it or not, and I came really close to getting rid of it before I decided to give it another chance. I'm glad I did: I've been getting really amazing...

Agreed! Every book in the trilogy will have an additional 4-8 POVs scattered throughout in short scenes. I had really great responses to this for the first book so I'll definitely be doing it again in this one and the third!

This is so helpful! Thank you! I think you nailed it - I feel the same way about each of these. I'd say the entire trilogy is a 50/50 between plot led and character led so I definitely need a little bit of both. My concern is that readers will find it difficult to keep track of everything, but...

Hi everyone. I'm currently working on a trilogy - book 1 is already released, book 2 is in the works but fully outlined, and book 3 is fully outlined. As I'm writing book 2, I'm wondering if there's too much going on. At the end of book 1, my MC enacts changes to her kingdom that are necessary...

I'll admit, I don't know much about cyborgs other than they're partially artificial. Maybe a poison of some sort that targets her cyborg side, even temporarily, giving the antagonist a 'window' to kill her human side? Or maybe when she becomes half cyborg, her human biology can't accept the new...

I'm glad I'm not the only one annoyed by it! Lol. If you say there's no real remedy, I'll take your word for it! I'll try to get started on the ebook next week then. I always forget how popular ebooks are because I prefer a physical copy!

I'd want one only for the marketing/distribution benefits...I'm OK with marketing but not great at it, especially since I'm a new author, and I know most publishers have tried-and-true marketing plans that would probably (hopefully) see more sales coming my way! Every other aspect of publishing...

My account says it should be viewable everywhere - I'm going to send a message over to see if they can resolve the issue. Thanks for bringing this to my attention!

I'm working on an ebook right now but hoping to get the first draft of the sequel done first! I ran into a few issues with formatting for the ebook - for one, I have a few interior illustrations in the print copies that I'd love to have in the ebook, but the program is super nitpicky about...