Hey everyone, I discovered Kindle Vella a few days ago and thought it might be something worth trying. I mean, how hard could it be?
Well, as it turns out, I’m starting to feel like it’s just what I’ve been looking for. It’s a platform that let’s a writer publish material in an episodic format. Caveat: ya gotta be a bonified user on KDP’s Publishing platform.
This is what you see on the landing page if you search for Kindle Vella. It’s just my opinion, but it looks like a reader’s paradise.
That would be perfect for an anthology of short stories or even a novel that could be broken out into episodes. There are some rules that Amazon insists the author follow and it’s spelled out in the terms of use. They specify that the content must never have been previously published in any format in any other location.
Just so I’m clear, they want new content. The target market is for the younger crowd. You know, those folks that never put the phone down. As a matter of fact, the prose is automatically formatted to fit phone screens.
I usually try to keep my chapter lengths to around 3k or so but I’ve discovered I can usually break those down even further to wind up with episodes that have the old internal cliffhanger. If you aren’t sure what that is I suggest you do a bit of searching and learning about it. It’s a great tool in a Novelist’a toolbox.
You still need to polish (until your fingers are raw and you are sick of looking at the damn thing) but in the end it gets your work in front of eyeballs. No gatekeepers. Just readers.
And baby, that’s where the rubber hits the road.
Have fun. Get the butt in chair. Stop scrolling this blog and git er done.
Much love to all of you out there struggling.
Peace,
Lee
Lee Stephens ~ Novelist 