Publish And Be Damned
Problems With Failed Amazon Publications, But I Am Still Learning
Introduction
I've had an issue with Amazon, which has been going on for years. Basically, it is that once you publish something, you can't delete it.
Often, these appear on your Amazon profile as unavailable, even if you archive and unpublish them, which looks very unprofessional.
Today I came up with an imperfect workaround, and I now have no books in that situation (though there is one that I am going to use for an ebook in the future).
The music is "Book Of Rules" by The Heptones, which I try to cover on my YouTube channel.
So What Did I Do?
While I could change the names of some of the books, others I couldn't, so I thought I would repurpose them, and if I couldn't change the name, I could still change the cover.
These are the two where I couldn't change the name:
But they are full of stories.
Thanks to all I learned from our new bestseller, I created two new books today, this is one, but the title is misleading as there are twenty haiku in the volume. I may change it tomorrow.
The others are in review.
This is my Amazon page:
The two spurious books are on there at the moment, but they will be superseded, and I will have nothing annoying me on Amazon.
While it is not perfect, I have fourteen self-published books on Amazon. If you want to do it yourself, check this out:
Thank you for reading, and hope I told you something useful.
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Getting Back Into Gear
Introduction I normally publish two or three Vocal stories a day, but over the last week, I have struggled to even publish one. There are reasons for this, which I shall elucidate here, but this is my second piece today no I am getting back into gear. I also hope this is helpful for other creators who hit similar situations.
By Mike Singleton ๐ Mikeydred 5 months ago in Writers
Restating Fiction Paragraphs
Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter โ What If? Writing Exercise for Fiction Writers prompts The Exercise โ Read the following passages to see how the writers convey information while shaping our attitudes and emotions. In Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises an obscure character is killed by a bull being taken to the bullring in a Spanish town. The first brief sentences deliver the objective facts almost as coolly as a newspaper obit. The final two sentences are longer and have a more complex structure (why?), and the string of ten short prepositional phrases that ends the passage not only mimics the rhythm of the train wheels but creates a poetic, lulling, hypnotic effect, suggestive of a chant. The Objective - To shape sentences to do your bidding. Sentences aren't just snowshoes to get you from the beginning to the end of your story. They are powerful tools with which to carve a story that wasn't there until you decided to create it.
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You always find a solution for everything. Not only that, you also share them with us. You are so kind ๐ฅนโค๏ธ
Mike, you are a problem solver to the maxed. Can't wait to do your interview. I had issue getting vocal.
You are writer after my own heart. I had a poetry on Amazon over here. I was the only one that bought it. I have a few art eBooks and a nursing workbook at Barnes & Nobles.com/BN.com, and even there no sales yet. You are a great writer, Mike. Keep writing.
You are writer after my own heart. I had a poetry on Amazon over here. I was the only one that bought it. I have a few art eBooks and a nursing workbook at Barnes & Nobles.com/BN.com, and even there no sales yet. You are a great writer, Mike. Keep writing.
You are writer after my own heart. I had a poetry on Amazon over here. I was the only one that bought it. I have a few art eBooks and a nursing workbook at Barnes & Nobles.com/BN.com, and even there no sales yet. You are a great writer, Mike. Keep writing.
You are writer after my own heart. I had a poetry on Amazon over here. I was the only one that bought it. I have a few art eBooks and a nursing workbook at Barnes & Nobles.com/BN.com, and even there no sales yet. You are a great writer, Mike. Keep writing.
You are so inspirational Mike, and always a wealth of knowledge
Using vocal stories to publish on Amazon is a great idea. Especially as a poetry collection or maybe a memoir of sorts.
I noticed a similar problem. I started publishing paperbacks, starting with the book advertised on my profile, which had a cover update recently. I want to update some of my e-books on there, but I am not sure because I end up having to republish the whole thing.
It would be interesting to use Vocal stories published to Amazon. I hadn't thought of that. Looks like you're becoming quite successful at it. I will need to look into doing that in the near future as well.
Dealing with Amazon can be tricky. I have a couple up myself. I ran the gauntlet, unpublishing a Kindle Vella serial before they shut the program down entirely. Wasted effort.