I've received so many rejections from literary magazines that I'm starting to lose track. To name a few that I've been rejected by - Glimmer Train , Bellevue Literary Magazine, The Mississippi Review, Cimarron Review, Fish Publishing, , Vestal Review, Smokelong Quarterly, Rattle, Blazevox and for screenwriting Scriptapalooza, Nicholls Fellowship, Inktip (too many unanswered queries)...
And yet I will not surrender.
I am turning to Kindle and will receive 70% royalties for my efforts. Maybe my partner will buy one of my chapbooks and I can pocket some moola to the tune of $2. No, I think you can set your price.
I searched the Kindle store in Amazon. Everyone must have an Amazon account in the internet jungle. On the lefthand menu are all of the Kindle Reading Apps: PC, Mac, Droid, IPhone... Pick and download.
Then I signed onto amazon's digital text platform.
https://dtp.amazon.com/mn/signin
This is where you upload your wonderful book or chapbook in my case, since I like to start small and cheap.
Now to upload your file, it should be a .mobi file not .doc. That is after you describe it in 4,000 words or less. Hopefully less. Most of my flash fiction and sudden fiction pieces are under 1,000 words in themselves.
The way I'm doing it is I downloaded Mobipocket Creator at
Cut and paste this url. The link malfunctions.
http://www.mobipocket.com/en/downloadsoft/productdetailscreator.asp
This way you can make a .prc file.
(Don't forget to add your cover image. While a book can't be judged by it, it can greatly persuade readers.)
Then I downloaded Calibre to import the book (usually held in a publishing folder) and convert the .prc file to a .mobi file.
http://calibre-ebook.com/download
Open the .mobi file in Kindle.
and feast your eyes on your beautiful, beautiful book. No, no they can't take that away from me.
