![]() ![]() What is Amazon (KDP)?Īmazon (KDP) is a self-publishing platform that allows authors to publish and sell their books in Kindle format on Amazon. In this article, we will discuss how to remotely login to Amazon KDP and access its features. ![]() KDP is a self-publishing platform that allows authors to publish and sell their books in Kindle format on Amazon. I look forward to what KDP brings authors in the near future.As a data scientist or software engineer, you may find yourself needing to remotely access Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) platform. Nearly every Indie author has built the bulk of their readership base using KDP, along with innovative programs like KDP Select and Kindle Countdown Deals - still the most robust marketing tools in the industry. Hardly a resume you might expect from a full time thriller writer making a comfortable living on 813,000 published words.Īs much as I'd like to think my self-publishing story is unique, I know it isn't. Not bad for a self-published writer who has never attended a writer's conference or taken a single course on the "craft." My "training" as a writer consists of reading Stephen King's On Writing (several times), joining a supportive writer's group and reading thousands of novels. I'm not sure why it took me another nine months to quit my job. The success of this no-brainer decision continued throughout the year. With earnings from the Kindle Owners' Lending Library added in, these books were more profitable than ever. When KDP offered the KDP Select program in late 2011, I didn't hesitate to enroll The Jakarta Pandemic and a recently launched title in my new Black Flagged series. I'd love to take credit for an effective marketing campaign, but Amazon's unique and unparalleled system of recommending books and categorizing similar titles gets all of the credit. In January 2011, that number shot into the hundreds with no effort on my part, reaching 2,000 units per month in March. I pushed that monthly number into the 40's by the end of December, by sheepishly spreading the word to my "exhaustive" list of a few hundred contacts. My first novel, The Jakarta Pandemic, sold a whopping 30 copies in November 2010. How did I get from there to here? One book at a time. But at least people will have a chance to read what we've worked so hard to create. We all deserve the chance to step out into the world, where we will either succeed or fail. I have my two other novels ready to go, and - more than anything - I have an excitement about my career that I don't think I ever had before.Īs writers, we do write for ourselves, because we need to - because it's a burning desire inside us and we can't not write - but we also want to be recognized for our work, for our passion, for the journey of our imaginations. Believe me, I'm not the most tech savvy person. I put one of my children out into the world, and the birthing process was made so easy by KDP. I started reading up on KDP I became a student of self-published authors and finally thought, Why not? I was so afraid I'd die with these unread novels on my computer my dying wish being, please publish them posthumously. I finally realized no publisher was going to buy my fiction. I wrote two other novels, a YAF ghost story called The Blue Hour and another novel about a friendship between two young girls - one black, one white. We don't know what to do with it, they said to my then-agent, who said to me, "If you were unknown they'd snap it up in a second." Great. ![]() I got rave reviews from publishers for the book, but none bought it. I began this novel then, foolishly believing a publisher would let me break out of the box they had put me in: Reagan daughter writing about her family, either fictionally or truthfully. About twelve years ago I heard strangers talking about two sisters-in-law who fell in love and divorced their husbands. Till Human Voices Wake Us was one of those stories. They're the stories that find you, that ask you to simply grab on, aim for the stars, and explore the filmy side of the moon. They're the ones that bloom from a single moment, from a dream that doesn't vanish at dawn. Every writer has stories that have nothing to do with them. What writer could resist? But I've always had other stories to tell - stories that had nothing to do with me or my family. Eight published books, more than a few having something to do with my very famous family, the Reagans. ![]() Yes, I do have a writing career - it's spanned decades. ![]()
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