Writing from Author JJ Bach

As a kid I loved reading westerns. If memory serves, the Sacketts were high on the list. Later on, thrillers and suspense came along. Elvis and Pike rank high, along with Myron Bolitar and Win, Cotton Malone, Philip Mercer, and of course Pitt and Giordino. There's room for stories about family too, and vast empty space in the middle of flyover country. Reading is a bit like spectating though, after awhile you want to play ball. So here's where I get in the game and off the sideline.

Friday, February 7, 2014

The First week of authoring

So I'm closing in on the first week of being an author. So far I've managed a few successes:

I uploaded the mobi file to Amazon, seen the listed book complete with thumbnail and info in the Kindle store;
I also managed an Authorcentral page, complete with links to my twitter acct, blog and some author pics;
I followed that with going through Draft2Digital to get my paddle making book listed on Apple's ecosystem. Specifically, it is now in the ibookstore, thumbnail, a good sample and the correct list price. Thank you goes to Tara for such fast response to my questions!
I am still in process with Xinxii for overseas distribution. Matthias and Patricia are both responding across six or seven time zones as I wade through the best way to do an ISBN for an overseas edition of an ebook.
Kobo also has some intriguing overseas retail partners.
Finally today I went ahead and sent my file up to the Barnes & Noble world as well. That was still in process last time I checked.
Lastly is an entry in the Goodreads system. Even though I see Goodreads as mainly fiction and my ebook is a tiny slice of business non-fiction, I figured Goodreads is worth a shot.
So far so good!

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