Publishing debut

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Hi all.

With the completion of Felicia's Second Life, I'm almost set to publish my first debut novel. Unfortunately, it's still not yet ready for publishing, as I'm making small changes to the story. Nothing that changes the story, only adding details and removing redundant stuffs here and there. After that I'll ask Eric's kind help to edit again, though I'll appreciate if anyone can volunteer to do beta reading and hopefully provide first comments on the story once it's published. I'm also hiring a manga artist to draw the cover, so hopefully it'll be enticing enough for people to buy.

It seems like unless I put Felicia's Second Life in Kindle Select, I won't have to take it off this site. So you guys can still read it as a web novel. If sales of first volume is bad, though, I will likely have to put Vol 2 on Kindle Select, which means taking it off Bigcloset for 3 months. But I've heard differing opinions on this issue. I was told that Amazon has problem with a novel being priced lower elsewhere, so me offering it here for free will be a problem and I will have to take it off the site anyway. Anyone can confirm this?

As it goes, it will probably be christmas before I can publish. I was told that publishing my first novel during or close to christmas is a bad idea as I will have to battle it out with more established authors who will also publish new books close to that time period. So it will probably be late January or February before I can publish my debut novel. What do you guys think?

I've completed 80% of the first chapter of Felicia's Second Life Vol 2, so maybe you guys will see that first before I publish Vol 1. I'm also writing a non-tg story set in a fantasy world. I wonder if it's fine to post it here and if anyone will read it.

Would appreciate anyone's input on any of these issues.

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erica jane's picture

I wouldn't mind seeing a good fantasy story or two here. :)

~And so it goes...

Alternative publishers

You might want to check out SmashWords. After a casual read of their publishing philosophy, it seems that they have a much wider reach than Amazon. And, it seems that they are not exclusive of free sites.