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1 Month In Kindle Vella
Last month when I finally decided to try the new Kindle Vella program out, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I went in not expecting anything, and here’s where I stand.
Kindle Vella is still in it’s beta experience. Although I’ve noticed in the past few weeks that there is a bit more advertising for it, when I started, there was zero. I knew that. I knew what it meant for me.
So, the first day, I published four episodes. Since readers get the first three for free, just in case someone stumbled upon my work I wanted one locked episode to be available.
What did I get?
Crickets.
So, a few days later I posted another episode.
More crickets.
What I realized though was that by promising readers (even nonexistent ones at this stage) to publish a new episode every week forced me to get through the editing process.
Because my story will span about thirty episodes, I didn’t want to take almost a year to finish posting the story so for this last month I’ve been focusing on…