25 Feb 2012, Posted by caburkes in Conversations over Cards, DesktopEpics, Gravity Gone, Script EBooks, Sleight of Death, 0 Comments Tagged Amazon Studios, Gravity Gone, SMH, So Gravity Gone

Scripts to EBooks

An early attempt at just putting out a script as an EBook was the free short story ‘Conversations Over Cards‘. It was downloaded quite a few times and a couple of good reviews here and there, but I need a larger audience to get a feel if people like to read ‘scripts’ as causally as regular narrative.

That’s why ‘Gravity Gone‘ was hanging on the fence until now because I can just as easily post it as a script and be done with it or switch off to a narrative and be normal like the rest of the folks. I mean, I don’t see too many posted ‘scripts’ these days unless it’s a made from an exisiting movie.

 

Laziness keeps me from writing the story as a full narrative, to be honest. I would rather continue working on stuff that has ongoing character value and depth. Gravity Gone is a one-shot mass destruction action film concept and, though I had ideas for spin-offs, the character essentially ends in this script.

I entered it into Amazon Studios contest a few months back and I have won exactly half of all the premise battles. You know something, that Amazon Studios thing was the very last ‘contest’ I entered and sure enough, did not win. SMH. I HATE contests to no end. That was the very last contest I’ll ever submit anything to.

So Gravity Gone is going into an EBook Script form, allowing me to imprint it separately just for scripts. I have quite a few.

To show you how 1-2-3 that process is, once I’m done with a decent cover for Gravity Gone, it’ll be up on Barnes and Noble in place of my failed attempt at 40 To Go before this weekend is through.

The new Sleight of Death cover is coming along nicely. I never really thought Candice (the model on the original cover) liked her pictures anyway.

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21 Jan 2012, Posted by caburkes in Conversations over Cards, eBooks, New Story Concepts, Short Scripts, Short Stories, 0 Comments Tagged SLOW

Short Scripts

I’m releasing everything. No matter what I have, it’s all either coming out in either some sort of an eBook or video. I’ve sat on enough partial work for too long and, not knowing the future, I’m done waiting and just unleashing the vault in 2012. So it seems like I have a lot just being produced at one time, it’s not like I’m up every night writing something brand new. All of this is old stuff just being released for the first time.

The plan is easy: short stories (even short scripts) for free and eBooks. Novel length with a price.

Such is the case with Conversations Over Cards. I wrote it back in 2005 with at least three stories tied to the characters with a yearly plan to develop a short film. Never the money or the time or the right actors.

So I got to thinking what if I were to die today, all my writing would be in the ‘vault‘ and aging fast. Posting the stories and making them available puts a time stamp on them.

Maybe someone else will find the script(s) and do something with them.

Conversations over Cards was designed to be just dialogue. Good, realistic back and forth. It has changed a few times over the years. dialogue re-adapted depending on who i thought would carry the characters (white or black). But this final version is a basic, non-race flavored story that I think everyone can relate to. As far as I’m concerned, this is where it ends for me. It’s a free eBook steadily being downloaded on Smashwords.

I like Smashwords, but the length of time they take to make your eBook available on amazon is ridiculously SLOW. So any sales I get on Butta‘ have been from Smashwords exclusively and I know that’s not enough of anything I could get off of Amazon. The next novel to come out will be put through the Kindle directly. This was a nice safe test but if I have to wait more than a week or two for placement in Amazon and still get no response as to what the problems were, if any, then it’s time to jump ship.

The new strategy thereafter will be free short stories only on Smashwords and books sent to Kindle directly. At the time, I wasn’t interested in knowing what’s going on, but I believe Amazon is up to something with Kindle publishers and I’ll have to look into it. Some sort of exclusive thing they are forcing on people. I’ll check it out when I can.

I’m almost done trying to figure out why I can’t get any reviews/comments on work that’s being downloaded like crazy. It totally escapes me why if people like the work why I’m not getting any feedback. Good or bad. Ahh well. I’ll just submit things to the pros and let it alone.

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