Tag Archives: Kindle

My Work on Smashwords

Just a quick update. As many of you know I have several story reprints available on Amazon as well as the first two volumes in the Lazy Designer series. Up until now I have also had the same content available on Smashwords. Smashwords is a great service because it distributes work onto multiple platforms, including …

November 13, 2012 – 10:42 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Writing Resources | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (3)

Priced to Die

“Why We Should Fear Ourselves More Than Pirates” So now that I’m seeing reports of SOPA and PIPA having been defeated by overwhelming negative opinion many are breathing sighs of relief. And others are cursing violently (but generally silently). Among game developers and writers, my two primary areas of interaction, opinions are mixed. Many are …

January 20, 2012 – 3:34 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Game Reviews, Technology, Writing Resources | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (57)

Reprints on various eReaders

I’ve added a few support pages to help those of you who would like to read my story reprints on your digital devices. iTunes Amazon (Kindle) Barnes and Noble (Nook) Kobo Sony Reader Let me know if you find any mistakes in the listings and if you read the stories please let me know what …

July 10, 2011 – 9:10 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Writing Resources | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Jakob Drud’s Big-T

I mentioned earlier that I’ve sold a story to the newly returned ‘Darwin’s Evolutions‘. This magazine has changed its distribution model… instead of just displaying the stories on its website it is packaging them for all the various eBook readers (Kindle et cetera). The stories will be released individually and each story will also receive …

June 16, 2011 – 8:51 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Writing Resources | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

Stories and Amazon Sales

So something strange happened this week… one of my stories was priced ‘free’ on Amazon (I mentioned it briefly last post). So far my publishing short story reprints to Amazon… Smashwords… AnthologyBuilder has been mostly an experiment in ePublishing, testing the waters so to speak. Sales have been far from brisk :) But with ‘The …

May 27, 2011 – 9:14 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Writing Resources | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (7)

People Like Free Stuff

My story reprint ‘The Prophet’ is now free through Amazon-Kindle and it pleases me to see it at the top of the free charts, though I suspect this will only last a day or so. I don’t think I’m quite at the point where I’m ready to self-pub original work (so far everything I have …

May 25, 2011 – 9:02 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life, Writing Resources | Tagged , , , | Comments (3)

‘Digital Rights’ – AnthologyBuilder

My Writers of the Future winning story ‘Digital Rights’ is now available at AnthologyBuilder. So there are now four places to read this story! I really am making this as convenient for you as possible. – In Writers of the Future XXVI – On the Kindle – On a variety of eBook devices through Smashwords …

April 25, 2011 – 6:34 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Writing Resources | Tagged , , , , | Comments (2)

Intergalactic Medicine Show

I’ve been a subscriber to the online magazine Intergalactic Medicine Show for about half a year now and though I haven’t had time to read all the issues the few I have read have been fantastic. Anyways one of the reasons I haven’t read more of the backlog (you have access to all prior issues …

March 15, 2011 – 10:01 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Writing Resources | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Novel Edits

Sorry for the quietness but I’m busy with Empire Avenue and novel edits… I’m kicking this novel out of my house by the end of the month no matter what. As well I’ve been playing around with a secret project (not writing or Empire Avenue related). And no I’m not telling you about it yet. …

March 5, 2011 – 2:09 pm | By Brent Knowles | Posted in My Life | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

The Monastery at AnthologyBuilder

I’ve been talking a lot about my Kindle and Smashwords reprints but I also have many of my story reprints available as part of AnthologyBuilder. This is a cool site that lets you take story reprints of your choice and assemble them into a print on demand book! My latest story the Monastery just went …

March 2, 2011 – 9:41 am | By Brent Knowles | Posted in Writing Resources | Tagged , , | Comments (0)