If you haven’t heard about Amazon’s new platform – Kindle Vella this summer, I have to believe you’ve been living in a cave.

Late spring Amazon debuted this new platform for readers.  The readers pay for each chapter instead of a whole book.  The author submits chapters, daily, weekly, or monthly.  This isn’t a new concept; a few other platforms offer it.  Amazon decided to get into the game.  They give you 200 tokens for free.  You can read a few books with them before you have to buy more.

I decided to try my hand at creating a book this way.  I visited the site and was surprised to see they had nonfiction books right along with the fiction books.  This was great for me because I wanted to write a new nonfiction book and thought this platform would be perfect for it.

Amazon ask that you commit to ten episodes – chapters.  I thought that shouldn’t be too hard to do.

I outlined my chapters and submitted my first three chapters for Building Your Readership – How To Become A Social Butterfly. 

Then I got crickets for the first week. 

I decided to up my promotion game and created a few Tic Tok and IG Reels videos to see if I could get in front of some readers. 

The next week I got a few readers.

I will admit that it’s hard-to-get people over to look at the episodes because it’s a new platform and you know how we are about new platforms.  However, I’m going to continue promoting and writing my episodes until I reach my 10-episode goal.

If you haven’t stopped by Kindle Vella, I highly recommend you go check it out.  There are some interesting stories on the platform.  You might surprise yourself and find something you like.

Each night I check out a new book.  So far, I’ve found five I like.  I will share a few titles in my upcoming posts.

Join me on this new writing journey.  Check out my new book – https://amzn.to/2Xg1JsK

Have you tried Kindle Vella as a reader or writer?