My experience publishing with Amazon and Createspace

Hello everyone!

     I know it's been since February since I've posted anything, but I've been busting my ass working on my book Confessions of an Internet Pornographer. It is finally out in paperback. I've priced it as low as possible, $9.99 on Amazon.com. I've had a good experianc working with Amazon which is the topic of this post.

     First of all, Amazon does not publish the book, the website you will be doing business with is named Createspace. As a matter of fact, when you are finished and pricing you book, you will get a bigger royalty for copies purchased at Createspace, than at Amazon.com. I guess as an incentive to send shoppers to them. However, once you publish at Createspace your book will be listed on Amazon in a couple of days, without you doing a thing.  

     The program is easy to use. I've spent the better part of the last two months formatting the book. I had to chose margins, cover color, everything. Luckily, I could make changes regularly, and they've added a way to view the proof of your book online. You can also order hard copies at cost. When you are finished the program editor will show you where problems exists on a page. They provide a lot of help. Best of all it's FREE to place your book on what will soon be the worlds biggest book publisher.

     Another great thing about Amazon is that you are an instant International author. The minute you publish your book it's available in the US, England, Germany, Italy, and Spain. I was looking at my stats the other day, and sure enough, I made a Kindle sale in England and Germany. I've actually sold over a 100 copies of my Kindle book in the UK. Thank you great Britain! Amazon lets you set the U.S. price, and it will do the currency conversion for you. I am definitely recommending Createspace. My experience with Amazon, both when publishing my novel as a Kindle book and a paperback, have been smooth.

    Until next time, I will continue writing into the wind.

Luis Mario

Book Recommendation: The Dirty Parts of the Bible

Hello everyone!

    I will start this post by thanking my return visitors. While examining my stats’ I’ve noticed that 100% of my visitors last month were return visitors. Thanks’ for coming back! I am also getting a lot of Russian visitors so I would like to say, "Добро пожаловать на все мои друзья из России!” which I think means “Welcome to all my friends from Russia.”   

     I want to use this post to tell you all about a great book I am reading entitled The Dirty Parts of the Bible, by Sam Torode. The book tells the story of a strict preachers son who is searching for a secret treasure to save his father’s home. In order to find the treasure he must go on an odyssey across the American mid-west to his uncle’s farm in Texas. Along the way he meets a cast of motley characters who are wonderfully 3 dimensional and oddly familiar. It is a very enjoyable ride. He finally arrives on his Uncle’s old farm and begins to learn things about his family, and his father, that change him forever.  

     Anyone who knows a little about Christians and the bible will appreciate the religious humor and titillating biblical references. It you had a very religious upbringing, like me, you’ll laugh out loud. They are very funny and some of the most enjoyable lines in the book. I was hoping to find smart funny scriptural references when I bought the book – just think about the title – and I was not disappointed. The protagonist is a obsessed virgin who is seeing the real world for the first time; a man who wants to have sex more than he wants to go to heaven.  

     The book is sometimes laugh out loud funny and well written. My only critique would be that I wanted to the novel to have more description of the turn of the century middle America. However, the story never loses its sense of place and setting.

     I loved the way he finds the treasure. It happens very quickly and I was just as surprised about it's location as the protagonist. I highly recommend this self published novel. Whatever publisher turned this one down made a big mistake. If you want to read a funny, well written, guilt-ridden, sexy little story, with a nostalgic American voice read The Dirty Parts of the Bible by Sam Torode. Available at Amazon.com.

      Good luck to everyone and удача (success), until we meet again I will continue writing into the wind.



Lucho
P.S.
Please note I have not received anything for this endorsement, nor do I know or have ever met Mr. Torode. I just really liked his novel and think self-publishers should help one another.