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Introducing Kindle Vella: The Hot New Publishing Option
June 12, 2022, 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Come join us at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, June 12, 2022, at the Millhopper Library for a discussion of the new subscription service for self-publishers: Kindle Vella. This is a “story subscription service that lets you read serialized works of fiction written specifically for this platform” (https://www.techradar.com/news/amazon-kindle-vella).
Did you know that Charles Dickens, Sir Author Conan Doyle, and Herman Melville all published their original novels in pieces, either in magazines or journals? Alexandre Dumas stretched out The Count of Monte Cristo into 139 installments. Madame Bovary originally appeared in installments.
Are you ready to join the historic trend of separating your work into installments for a restless audience? Then, come to the June 12 meeting to find out how to use Amazon’s new service, how to upload your work, what types of work are most popular, and how you get paid for your work. Don’t miss out. This newest publishing option is taking off fast.
Kindle Vella allows readers to purchase individual chunks of a story and read them when they want. Readers purchase the sections using tokens from Amazon to download a certain number of words.
Right now, Kindle Vella seems primarily generated for phones, but that limitation could change soon.
This program will be presented by Marie Q. Rogers (aka Pat Caren) and Wendy Thornton.
Rogers studied Literature at Eckerd College and did graduate work at the University of Florida. Her YA novel, Trials by Fire, received a 2020 Royal Palm Literary Award. The sequel, Quest for Namai, debuted at the 2022 Sunshine State Book Festival. Her dystopian novel, Season of the Dove can be found on Kindle Vella. Her work has also appeared in Bacopa Literary Review, Pilcrow & Dagger, and in the collection, Local Lives in a Global Pandemic: Stories from North Central Florida. She also posts creative non-fiction on her weblog, marieqrogers.com. She has served as President of the Writers Alliance of Gainesville, a judge for the Royal Palm Literary Awards, and chairman of the Sunshine State Book Festival.
Thornton is a freelance writer who has been published in Riverteeth, Epiphany, MacGuffin, and many other literary journals and books. Her memoir, Dear Oprah: How I Beat Cancer and Learned to Love Daytime TV, was published in July 2013. Her latest book of essays, Sounding the Depths, was published in May 2018. The second mystery in her Bear Trapped Series, Bear Trapped: Blowback, was published in June 2020, and the third is due in 2023. She has recently started writing screenplays and has two under consideration in contests. She is currently working on a novel about the Covid epidemic, Triad, and a book of essays on how to handle bullying. She teaches writing courses at Santa Fe College, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and has won many literary awards. In 2009, she started the Writers Alliance and was the first president of the organization.
If you are unable to attend in person, you may watch via Zoom. Here’s the link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89973131287?pwd=UWc4WXRaaDl0OWVQWmgwbTBiNHdVQT09