John Howell writes an entertaining thriller about an American hero, John Cannon who arch-enemy is a terrorist bent on destroying the US. I enjoyed the easy pace and outcome of the story. The good guys win. I’m not much of a shoot-em-up political kind of gal but if you like political thrillers this will be a book to read.
Available now for Free through Kindleunlimited.
Absolutely nothing goes better with coffee.
Yes, waking to a text and email, from Reader’s Review notifying me of a 5 Star review, was better than pancakes.
Be sure and click on the above image to read the review. She’s now available on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. com.
Now back to work on the next book.
We all want our books available in as many places as possible but if the same paperback book has more than one ISBN, it can become confusing.
There is an order to this madness. And steps you can take to stay sane as you wade through the swamp of self-publishing.
Yes, it costs to buy your own ISBN but you retain more control. Consider buying in bulk rather than one at a time. I found it cheaper to go that route. The numbers never expire and they are yours to use for future books.
This is very important. You must publish with them before CreateSpace.
Registering your book title is super important, don’t skip this step.
At the ISBN page, choose “provide own ISBN.”
That’s it! Your book will now be available through both IngramSpark and Amazon.com (CreateSpace) but the book will have the same ISBN number.
Whether your Aunt Tilly orders it from Amazon or your local library orders a copy through IngramSpark for their shelves, the ISBN is the same.
I’ve not decided it this is important for ebooks yet.
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Well, that’s my opinion anyway.
Okay, I’ve told y’all many times how hard-headed I can be. So this post will come as no surprise, that even after reading the pros and cons of the new Kindle Kids’ Book Creator software, I still decided to give it a try. God I’m nuts!
To the readers which received an advance ecopy to review, I humbly apologize if you were unable to open the .mobi document.
I should have saved myself the trouble. Other than it being another software to use, trust me, it’s not worth the hassle.
It’s a lot of hard work for little return. Kind of like eating crawdads. After dinner, you wonder why you didn’t just go ahead and order a damn lobster.
Okay, enough bellyaching. Here is why after the hard work, cussing, and crying I ended up with a product that is very limited.
Why? Because Kindle Kids’ Book Creator files are huge and this limits the price you can charge for an ebook. Another thing it only allows certain devices to download the book. Yep, you heard right. Not all Kindle devices will be able to buy the book. That is why I will release another one through Createspace.
I could’ve published a couple of ebooks in the time I wasted playing with this program.
Although I had queried, searched and read everything I could get my hands on about this program, still I went forward.
Never again. For the future, I will use PagePlus to design the book, produce it in a PDF with Nitro10, and load it straight to IngramSpark and Createspace.
Bottom line, this is a no go for me. I won’t be using KKBC again.
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