I was listening to Adam Carolla, and the author being interviewed apparently publishes Kindle Singles. Seems like these are basically novella length books (also non-fiction apparently) that you submit to Amazon and they 'publish' (what this means is open to interpretation) and push the piece as one of these Kindle Singles. Also, there is a slight difference in the royalties cut, apparently.
They also promise a 4 week response time (just got a response on a frigging short story after 150 days! Yuck.)... anyone else think this is interesting? I do have a couple of novella-length pieces that I don't want to pad out with fluff/filler. I don't think they are ready for publication, but still...
Just kidding.
I was looking at the Kindle singles page:
Kindle Singles is here to offer a vast spectrum of reporting, essays, memoirs, narratives, and short stories presented to educate, entertain, excite, and inform. Our writers take you places you can't get to any other way, on journeys of fact and fiction that share these common threads: they're the highest-quality work we can find, and at a length best suited to the ideas they present.
It sounds great. I'm going to look into it a bit more.
They seem to have a lot of big names involved. The submission page is here: Kindle Singles
This interesting.
I better finish my novella in that case.
And decide on a pen name.
I've been idly looking into this as well, they started posting on duotrope. Seems cool, really.
@Sparrow Idly? Adverbs are the devil.
Howie, you magnificent bastard, God love ya. Well played.
So what is the difference between this and normal self publishing? More press from Amazon?
I submitted a novella to them last week - looking forward to see if it goes anywhere. Though maybe I won't hold my breath for a response in 4 weeks.
I just picked up the kindle single Richard Greener did a couple weeks ago. It was worth a read for $0.99
What this amounts to is that Amazon is now a publisher. They've already made million dollar plus contracts with other writers, and are now testing the waters with new and unpublished writers. Quicker turn around BUT there's still a gateway, which is good. If you want an even quicker turn around and no gateway, you can still just upload your ebook and promote this shit out of it for 24/7/365 and beyond and pray you make some money and don't get slammed by the hater reviews.
Interesting and worth following.
Question - do they set a price or does the author set a price?
It's a great program to be in if you can get accepted. There turn around is not as fast as they claim. It took about 3 weeks for me to get my rejection. But worth trying for sure.
I had two of my short stories rejected in about three weeks time.
Despite this, I have them "published" on KDP and am marketing them best I can. Marketing your own stuff online SUCKS but I guess it's what we have to do.
Anybody know anything about the people who read and pick/reject submissions to Kindle Singles???
