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Publishing a novel is the retail version of a story that already works. Categories, a series name that matches on ebook and print, a price pair, and a sample that reaches the first scene. We do not publish a draft that is still moving chapters, and we do not promise a rank.
The retail novel
A novel listed under Fiction / General is in a parking lot. The category should be the shelf a reader of this book already buys: romance, thriller, fantasy, literary, the particular aisle. Series name and volume number have to match on the ebook and the paperback or the retailer splits them into strangers. The description sells the want and the trouble. It does not summarize the ending, and it does not give away the turn the book is built on.
The sample is usually the first ten percent. If that ten percent is a half title, a dedication, three blurbs, and a map, the buyer never meets the book. We move front matter so chapter one arrives while they are still looking. Ebook price and print price are set as a pair. A $2.99 ebook beside a $16.99 paperback is ordinary. A $0.99 novel is a strategy, and we will say so before it goes live.
Order of the work
What a novel listing needs
A literary description on a thriller, or the reverse, teaches the wrong reader to buy it.
What we publish
The cover is a separate job if you do not have one. We will not crop a sketch into a listing.
Decisions
Some novels earn more from page reads than from other shops. The ebook stays exclusive while enrolled. We ask before we tick it.
Apple, Kobo, and the rest, if you want those readers more than Unlimited. Print can still be on Amazon.
The usual pair. Series data matches. The paperback is not an afterthought with a different subtitle.
House rule
Publishing is not a rank we can order, and it is not a rewrite in disguise.
Before the listing
If you want Apple and Kobo, no. If this is a series you plan to keep on Amazon and the page reads matter, maybe. We will not enroll book one and then discover you wanted the series wide.
Yes. The series name should still be true. Do not label it book one of seven if you have not decided there are seven.
You do. The accounts and the royalty stay in your name.
When the novel is done
We will say if the sample can carry that shelf. Call (833) 688-4166 or write [email protected].
The shelf
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