Self-Publishing Review | William Vitka

William Vitka @vitka ?

active 8 months, 3 weeks ago

"A self-publishing friend of mine has started up a reddit board for folks of our ilk: http://www.reddit.com/r/selfpublish/ He and I are the moderators. Join the discussion! Hawk your wares!" · View

Name	William Vitka
Location	New York City
Website	http://www.amazon.com/William-Vitka/e/B004S7MH9S/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0
About	The first thing you need to know is: Monsters are real. “I miss pulp. A lot. The vast majority of my writing efforts are geared towards bringing back the monsters, the weirdness, the twists, and the over-the-top excitement of Science Fiction and Horror from the good old days. Hope you enjoy.” William Vitka is a journalist and author. He’s worked for CBSNews.com, Stuff Magazine, GameSpy and NYPost.com. He’s been published in The Red Penny Papers, Necrotic Tissue, and Everyday Weirdness. His debut novel “Infected” will be published by Graveside Tales in June 2012. He lives in New York City with his wife.

William Vitka and Dick Peterson are now friends 10 months ago · View
William Vitka posted an update: 10 months ago · View

A self-publishing friend of mine has started up a reddit board for folks of our ilk: http://www.reddit.com/r/selfpublish/

He and I are the moderators. Join the discussion! Hawk your wares!
William Vitka posted an update: 10 months, 1 week ago · View

So maybe sales haven’t completely stalled. They stall for a day or two, then more copies move. ’Unpredictable’ is a word I could easily assign to my self-publishing experience at the moment.
William Vitka posted an update: 10 months, 2 weeks ago · View

Sales seem to have stalled but my rank is still fluctuating rather wildly. Also: self-promotion is quite tiring.
- Dick Peterson · 10 months, 2 weeks ago
  There is one thing I have done and might have forgotten to mention to you. I designed a business card for my novel, printed them from my computer, and cut them to size. I’m absolutely certain they have brought in some sales. From store cashiers, to waiters, to doctors, to the guy from whom we bought a mattress, to friends and work associates, I don’t discriminate. If I discern they might be a reader, I give them a card. Here’s the content I included:
  
  Dick Peterson – Novelist
  redstickwriter.blogspot.com
  913-269-0538
  
  By the Light: A Novel of Serial Homicide
  An e-book available in the Kindle Store at Amazon
  tinyurl.com/bythelight
  
  For Kindle, PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch,
  BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone
  
  It is adorned with a color version of the lighthouse picture that occurs by each of my chapter titles.
William Vitka posted an update: 11 months ago · View

My ranking has hit 18,840 — the highest yet. This is wonderful. Now, it doesn’t mean I’ve been selling like hotcakes (10 people’ve bought it so far), but it’s still a good sign.
William Vitka posted an update: 11 months ago · View

I joined this quite some time ago with the intention of self-publishing … and I finally have. Just uploaded a short to Amazon. The process was a breeze, but I am at a loss as to why I can’t *really* set my own price. My intention was to make my short stories available for $.50 — which seems reasonable, as opposed to $2.99. I had to settle for 35% at $.99. Nonsense, I say! Let the people read a few pages for less than a buck.
William Vitka became a registered member 2 years ago · View

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