First, right now, 10/15/22, until the 18th of October, the "U)n-Clenched Emotion," kindle book version, is on sale for 99 cents on Amazon. It normally costs $2.99. It's always free on Kindle Unlimited. If you haven't already found the link on this blog, it's at: https://www.amazon.com/Clenched-Emotion-Natasha-Gruss-ebook/dp/B01LZNVH4Y This book is authored by Natasha Gruss, which is me, even though I am now Natasha McKinley. Amazon does not let people change the name of the author of a published book, which makes sense.
I found some other interesting things about how I can edit and promote the books I write. Even after it was published way back in 2016. I have not yet had my 2 of the same books, (the kindle version and the print edition,) linked. Hopefully this is in the process of happening. I thought that I had messed up by not originally linking my books. Well, I just found out it wasn't my fault. Author's used to publish their books with Create Space. That's where I published my print book. Now, you can not publish your books with that. I had to go into Create Space and transfer the print book to Kindle Direct Publishing, where are where all book versions are published now. I had published my delightful book when Amazon was making this change, so my linking got lost in the cracks. I have changed the book descriptions, the subtitles, and the keywords to match. Hopefully this will get my books linked in a few days; after my promotion ends.
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Kindle does not let you price your book at 99 cents all the time. You have to do a promotion to do that. You get one count down deal during a promotion period which lasts for a few months. Hopefully I will be able to do another free promotion for Black Friday/Cyber Monday. Amazon also added another way to promote my book. I was able to nominate it for Prime First Reads. That's where Prime members get to download a free book, out of a list of a limited amount of books, once a month. I doubt they will choose my book, but it was an easy click to nominate it. Doing is risk-free. I hope I have given authors some good information on Publishing and promoting their books. And if you are not an author, I hope this was still an interesting read.
