MAD MINUTE IS LIVE

The bulk of the two-book series went up on Kindle today—along with a slightly revised version of HOT STATUS. This time I only changed the bonus material, making sure the sample chapters of MAD MINUTE will match the ones from the actual book.

I also added two chapter of HOT STATUS at the end of MAD MINUTE. Now both books promote one another.

HOT STATUS remains at 99 cents, which means I'm stuck with the 35% royalty. MAD MINUTE is starting at $2.99—the lowest price you can set for 70% royalty. It will be interesting to see if the cheaper book can drum up business for its higher-priced cousin.

When I entered the information during the Add New Book process, I fudged a bit. With HOT STATUS, the title of the "series" was "the prequel to MAD MINUTE."

This time, the title of the series was: "the sequel to HOT STATUS."

The purpose here is to load the parenthetical remark that follows the title of the book whenever it's mentioned. The books are linked together now and will always cross-promote each other.

In the case of a real series, it would be best to give the overall title, but with the number of the book added:

BLASTER (MONKEY-BOY - Book 3)

Still not strictly what Kindle appears to be asking for, but folks seem to use it (or abuse it) in this fashion.

Anyway, I've been too busy the last few weeks to look into the matter of promotion. I decided to wait until I had both books live.

I was also going to consider submitting to Smashwords, which would put the books on other markets. But I may hold off a bit on that—so I can consider Kindle Select instead.

Can't do both.