Posted by Julie Ortolon on April 18, 2011
I’ve had a wild ride at Amazon ever since they dropped the price of Almost Perfect, book one of my contemporary romance trilogy, to free. I know a lot of you have been asking how the heck did I pull this off. Anyone following the e-book revolution closely knows an individual author self-publishing an ebook [...]
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Posted by Julie Ortolon on July 19, 2010
If you want to sell your ebook to Kindle readers, is it better to go through Smashwords, or directly through Amazon? The answer: Both!
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Posted by Julie Ortolon on June 30, 2010
Publishing your first ebook is a lot like sex. You can read about it all day long, even ask your friends, “what was it like,” but until you’ve actually done it, it remains a big mystery. So here it is, my friends, the nitty-gritty of my first Smashwords experience. Step One: Getting the File If [...]
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Posted by Julie Ortolon on June 21, 2010
After weeks – months! – of traveling this rocky road, I finally have my first ebook up for sale! Woo-hoo! I promise to share what I learned these last few days, but for now…Pop the champagne! Falling for You is available at Smashwords.com. Click Here to check it out and download the first third FREE. [...]
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Posted by Julie Ortolon on June 14, 2010
Republishing my first out-of-print novel as an ebook feels like running a marathon where the finish line is so close, I can almost feel the tape breaking against my chest — but, no matter how hard I run, I can’t quite reach it. A big hold up has been the ambitious project I mentioned in [...]
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