Louise Wise: KOLL
Showing posts with label KOLL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label KOLL. Show all posts

Thursday, 6 August 2015

I said I wouldn't do it again. But I have. #freekindlebook

It's FREE!!!!!

Oh no, I've Fallen in Love! has been entered into Select again. Last time, sales fell so it's a gamble it won't happen again. But since big A changed the rules with KOLL (Kindle Owners' Lending Library) payments have changed for authors.

It's exciting times. 

Full-sized novels are no longer paid the same as short stories as it's paid per page read and that means the reader has the control. They don't like the book and stop reading, and guess what, we don't get paid (or get paid for the amount of pages read).

I think that's fair.

Oh no, I've Fallen in Love! is now completely and uttering free to members of Amazon's Lending library. But a word of caution, this book will make you cry, that I can guarantee. 

A story of how love can destroy--and heal.
 
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When she was eight years old, Valerie Anthrope’s world changed forever. Her childhood dissolved in an instant. She had to survive her brother’s death and her subsequent mother’s mental health illness, and later her suicide.

Faced with the new reality of her life, she must find a way to survive the horror that became her childhood and answer the question—how do you get back to normal, when everything normal has gone?

Her answer was to hide her feelings behind a mask of self-sufficiency and hold would-be friends at arm’s length. She tells herself she doesn’t need anyone.

Love was too painful to risk again.

Then why can't she get client Lex Kendal out of her mind? If life has taught her anything, it's that she has to keep looking over her shoulder because sooner or later the curse that destroyed her family would find a way to sabotage any happiness she was to find—and Valerie couldn’t risk that.

Not again.
Oh no, I’m Falling in Love! is a book to make you smile, cry but mainly to remind you to hold on tightly to those you love.

 Praise for Oh no, I've Fallen in Love!


There are good, funny sparky dialogue, and a nice balance of light and dark throughout. Wise uses dialogue as it should be used; to bring the narrative to life. I especially liked the clever little prologue and the way it was picked up again at the end. Polished and accomplished.

I feel that anyone who has experienced anxiety or depression due to past trauma, or is close to someone who has, will find that this book deals sensitively with the subject.
It illustrates the redeeming power of love.

Despite the serious subject matter, Oh no, I’ve Fallen in Love! is a very funny love story, the humour ranging from light to dark. The author's descriptions of how Ellen bursts into Valerie's `grey' world and adds shades of colour to it are hilarious.

Over all, this is a well written and entertaining story with a clever ending that brings everything together. 

It has all the ingredients to make the basis for a comedy-drama series on television. Are you listening Sky TV?




Sunday, 26 July 2015

How has the new KOLL been treating you?



The Kindle Edition Normalized Page Count (KENPC)

I took my books out of Select over a year ago.  Kindle Owners' Lending Library (KOLL) at Amazon hadn’t taken off in the UK and Europe, and borrows were pitiful — borrows from Amazon in the US were about the same as sales, so what with losing sales from other on-line book stores (KOLL means you have to be digitally exclusive to big A) I wasn’t gaining and so I removed all books from Select.

Then big A changed the rules and it was pay per page from July 1st this year, and I thought I’d give it another go.

I put my sci-fi romance series into KOLL middle of June and the results are coming in—and I’m not sure if it’s beneficial yet. Probably too early to tell. 

According to big A:

•    The author of a 100 page book that was borrowed and read completely 100 times would earn $1,000 ($10 million multiplied by 10,000 pages for this author divided by 100,000,000 total pages).

•    The author of a 200 page book that was borrowed and read completely 100 times would earn $2,000 ($10 million multiplied by 20,000 pages for this author divided by 100,000,000 total pages).

•    The author of a 200 page book that was borrowed 100 times but only read half way through on average would earn $1,000 ($10 million multiplied by 10,000 pages for this author divided by 100,000,000 total pages).



Eden (one of the books I’ve placed in KOLL) has a file Size of 763 KB and print length of 312 pages. But the Kindle Edition Normalized Page Count (KENPC) comes up at v1.0: 442.
So according to big A’s summary above I’ll receive approximately 4k (subject to the fund’s calculation in June). 


No one knows the true cost of per page read and payment is subject to the amount of pages read from each and every author in the programme (that's why it changes monthly as authors drop in and out). 

How has KOLL been treating you so far?

To find your KENPC:
  • Go your KDP Bookshelf.
  • Click ‘Promote and Advertise’.
  • Scroll to ‘Earn royalties from the KDP Select Global Fund’ and there will be your unique KENPC page (ignore the first bit and concentrate on the figures after the colon mark). 
Louise Wise is the author of the best-selling sci-fi romance Eden

Imprisoned for brutal crimes against his wardens, Fly became an unwilling experiment and was transported, with other criminals, to a hostile planet. Full of mutiny, anger and a desire for revenge the experiment was never going to be successful and Fly became the only survivor when the craft crashed.
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Then the human ship arrived -- and Jenny.
With a malfunctioning spacecraft she was in for a fight for her life, but her problems were only just beginning when her crewmates abandon her on Eden.

Jenny's on her own... or so she thinks.