Suddenly I'm an ebook author

I read a few weeks ago that Kindles are selling like hot cakes and all sorts of authors, both famous and not-so-famous have been making a killing by self-publishing their own ebooks that can be read on these little devices. So I thought I’d give it a go.

Started out with two novels that a couple of ‘proper’ publishers have shown interest in but which at the end of the day, got turned down. I still had them all in a Word format, though, so I turned them into ebooks and now they’re up on the Amazon Kindle Books website.

The first one is called Timeflight and it’s a science fiction novel. Imagine my delight when, 15 minutes after it went live as an ebook on Amazon, someone in America bought it. Wow, I thought, I’m on my way. My first sale in 15 minutes. That was a week ago, and no one has bought a copy since.

My second one is called Breakthrough and this one is a paranormal horror story. I’m still waiting for my first sale on that.

Next step is a non-fiction book for camera collectors, one of my specialities. It’s called Clockwork Cameras and it’s about how camera makers of the past used clockwork in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways. This one was a bit more difficult to convert into an ebook because it contains a lot of pictures. But after a bit of trial and error, it’s now up there with the other two. Here's a picture of the cover...

Next step is to send out press releases on the camera collecting book to all the photo magazines. 

If anyone is interested, clicking on the titles above will take you to the books on Amazon.