C&D Book Update #39 (Amazon Tips)
And I finished it.
Amazon already displays my book. It feels terrifying. I spoke little about it because I was half-thinking the book would not be accepted or something. I can get pretty insecure.
It's very easy to put a book on Amazon. What is hard is setting your bank account... my main bank account doesn't have a SWIFT number, and I suffered a lot trying to find some other way. I ended up dragged around through a ton of videos for 4+ hours until my mother, brilliant as always, told me MY OTHER BANK HAS THAT DAMN NUMBER, I just couldn't find it. So this was the worst part of putting the ebook on Amazon.
I'd recommend everyone use Kindle Create. As an avid Kindle reader, when the ebook can't format/change font/etc., it loses 90% of its appeal.
Hmm what else can I say... oh. Like, 600+ pages? Oh no. My A4 doc said I had 400+. I think it is because a real book is not A4? To say I had a scare with that number is to... well.
Another thing: The W8-BEN form or something. I already worked with international websites before (I worked with multimedia for years), and that form always gets ugly. If Amazon made you sign it, be aware that another 30% is getting deducted from all USA purchases. :) Yayy!! You can petition through another form to try to gain an exception or something, but I decided it was not worth the cost to me back then, and I have not studied it again today to see if I need to change my mind. I will study it when I can.
I was happy when my book went live, but frankly, my main emotion was "I want to sleep for the next 10 years." I'm so bone exhausted. Just a few hours before my book was in, my doctor asked me if I was sleeping. I was like this:
How do I even tell my doctor of my most self-destructive trait?
Sunday -> Tuesday. That's how long it took for my book to go live. I searched around and internet gave me until 10 days after Sunday? Even thought Amazon gave me 72 hours. And a Reddit post 4yo told me it could take just a few hours! So I was going insane. I spent two (?) nights sleeping with such a huge amount of adrenaline. This type of thing bothers me a ton.
I'm half sleeping still. It makes me remember how I wanted to cosplay a character from that weird movie... oh I'll just find his name, sit still for a bit.
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Meet the robinson goob
Ok here it is
Much is said about the honors of writing, nothing is said about the cost of it from one's soul.
I have no idea how I'll add the paperback/etc. I just have 0 will power now. I was even considering just skipping it and not even giving you all the Instagram/Tumblr posts I carefully prepared, but then I thought, nah. Nobody will even notice how bone tired I'm, and maybe some post will make someone take notice of my book?
Also, I want to say that I'm aware my book will most probably only be read by family and friends. And that's ok. It's more art to me than anything else. But just like when I posted my first fanfic in 2010, after years of keeping my fics private, the thrill of the POSSIBILITY of someone else reading it and telling me what they think is so precious to me. My main and strongest hyperfocus has always been a human's soul. I want to steal them.
Don't take me too seriously.
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