The Temple of Heart and Bone

Hello there, folks, I thought I'd mention that my first book, The Temple of Heart and Bone, is on promotion over on Amazon's Kindle for .99.

There are, also, roughly six chapters available via "sample." From observation, I'd say that Amazon creates samples based on length.

The whole process has been quite the education - and experience!

Anyway, if you're so inclined, you can find Temple here: Amazon.com: The Temple of Heart and Bone eBook: S.K. Evren: Kindle Store

I may actually be more nervous making this post than I was in posting the book to Kindle...

 

Thanks for taking the time to look! And thanks for the mini-review!

 

Brian,

Thanks for taking the time to read the sample and for your very detailed blog post. I appreciate your thoughts and ideas, and I'll work on incorporating some of them as I move forward. It most certainly did help.

Just a thought on the pricing, I felt that $2.99 was a fair price point for an unproven, unreviewed author. It also feels like an impulse price point, perhaps encouraging folks to take a chance.

All that being said, I really do appreciate your thoughts. I wish that I had known about this site before I published on Kindle, but I actually found Mythic Scribes after learning about the very idea of forums dedicated to writing from the Kindle authors' forums.

I came at writing sideways, so it's very exciting to find such a resource and so many valuable opinions in one place!

Truly, thanks again!

Sam

 

Thanks, Phil, I appreciate that! I like the idea of "Free Sample Saturday," too!

 

I've had really mixed responses to that cover. I'll be utterly honest, my budget was beyond tight - so far beyond as to be utterly and completely non-existent. I don't want to hit you with a sob story, but let's just say that I haven't had work in over seven years (for medical reasons), and this book is my first attempt to try to help the person who is helping me.

That being said, the cover was made with Amazon's "cover maker." I tell you this only in the interest of full disclosure, and for the help of any who follow behind.

I really do wish I had known about sites like this one before I put the book up on Kindle. I almost feel foolish having put it up now, but I did what I thought was right and best at the time with the knowledge I had.

Please don't think I'm being defensive about your opinion, I'm really not - and I really do appreciate it - and all the opinions folks have shared. It just seems to me that having learned that folks can share their experiences, I should share mine as someone who came to this from, essentially, the outside.

I do have a few friends who are artists. I tried to get one to do the cover, but he was just utterly swamped. I think for the next one, I'll try to get it made more than 3 months before I put it up - and now I have a place to ask opinions!

Thank you, again, for your thoughts and for checking out the sample!

Sam

 

I did find them very useful, and thank you again. I'll be honest, I had decided on that $2.99 price point even before I learned of the 70% Amazon minimum. It may sound foolish and nostalgic, but that was the price of fantasy paperbacks when I was in college, and that price seemed very fair to me - along with being a more "impulse" range.

I realize business shouldn't be carried out from the lens of nostalgia - or foolishness - but it seemed like a great place to start.

Against a sea of free and .99 everyday titles, it's actually difficult to know - without external guidance - what a proper starting point should be - or in my case, was.

Thanks for the reply!

Sam

 

Thanks! I didn't think you were beating me up, honest.

I had not thought of anything like an e-mail list, but that's a great idea. I'll confess that I'm not sure how I'd implement that, though. Is that something you'd put at the end of a book? I've read that some Kindle authors put links to review their work at the very end - though reading that made me wonder if there were an "etiquette" I wasn't aware of - what's acceptable and what's not, if you take my meaning.

I'm not very immersed in the culture. I think it's fair to say that I just became aware of the pool, and now I'm trying to figure out what all that water in the ground is for...

Thanks again for your reply!

Sam

 

Thanks, Dan, that's really great information!

 

Thanks, Evilyn, I really appreciate that! I honestly hope you enjoy it! (Not that you have to, but rather that it's fun for you )