Wings/WingsII update

For those few that have read my original fiction, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for giving this amatuer a chance to entertain you.

no, don’t freak out, this isn’t me saying I am throwing in the towel. (well, yes, I am, but not really, follow along, you’ll see what I mean.)

I logged into my KDP (kindle direct publishing) account last night, kinda sorta like,,, Actually, I fought tooth and nail with the log in since they sometime in the recent past, aligned KDP with the Amazon Store and I guess to simplify things, made it “One password to rul them all” sort of shit. When I finally got it figured out, I had changed the password BACK, and then realized that i have to change my password for the Zon in both the phone and Mac now.

SO there was strike one. Strike two was in KDP reports. They have totally butchered how one can see details of sales, movement, pages read (IN Kindle) etc etc. Pretty much all the stuff that helps a writer (who is NOT an accountant) figure out marketting strategy and stuff. The longest time spread they let you set up is 30 days. No quarterly, no semi-annual, no annual,,, Just day week month. You can get that info by playing with the calenders, but it would take hours to do that, print out the reports and then compare them.

Fuck!

That!

SO,,, (heres the towel throwing thing) I am going to be pulling Wings off Amazon at some point. They are not getting a third strike. Its become too frustrating to deal with constant change, random price adjustments with ZERO dialogue between the writer and the publisher(? I guess thats what you would call the Zon in this case…) and while I have heard that they may ‘adjust’ the content of your book, I have not experienced this with Wings. And despite their offers to help promote, they don’t: just the occasional price below printing costs to push ‘cheap’ . I’m willing to take a hit for promotion, but not will-he-nil-he and not without some communication,,,

My trust with them is BLOWN.

I had been working on re-writing Wings anyway, since there are parts in the current version that are completely FUBARing the sequel. SO, what you have will NOT be what will be,,,, About 10-15% will be wiped or ‘modified’ and that damnable cliff hanger is going away. WingsII will be shortly on its tail in publication, but WHERE, right now,,, Dunno. I’m looking into those options now. AND I am still trying to figure out how to re-open my Scrivener files on Wings I. I have the first 9 chapters, (which will be the same) but can’t get the others to ‘run’. and if worse comes to worst,,, I pull out the PC and do it on that. (hate that machine,,,,) Whats up, stays up, until I have my ducks in a row.

This time around, I fully intend on getting someone outside of my circle to proof and edit, and I am looking at getting someone to help mentor me on promo and whatnot. With the two under my belt,,,,

But not through the Zon,,,, They are not Indie friendly anymore, IMO.