Hi, hi!

Hurray! Finally...my Petit Paris Series is settled on Amazon Kindle and they are ready for purchase now in different territories.

The learning curve is a bit long (or I'm not smart enough :P) it took me a lot of effort to work with the missing book covers after live on the store, and to solve the low display content issues which are especially critical to a fixed layout photo+text+illustrated book.

If you're writing a heavy text novel, your publishing process is far more easier for the use of reflowable epub, and can benefit a lot from the marketing tools provided for promotion. Whereas a fixed layout (they use the term  Print Replica) has to do extra work by ourselves.

But no matter how, it's done. So I've added a new book link to my Books Page for your easy reference, in case you're a Kindle lover. 

Last but not least, I'll continue to see if there is an alternative solution for you to preview more content in advance other than the Instant preview, which is again not supported in print replica.

Okay, see you next time, have a nice weekend :D

Oiseau
22Jun2024 ~ Sunny 

Hi, hi!

It's a bit embarrassing, but no matter how, I need to let you know just in case you found me on Kindle Books.

As you may know I'm currently working on the distribution of my Petit Paris Series on KDP, basically everything was settled except for some critical issues that are out of my control ~ 'The Missing Book Cover Mystery'

As an author, I should raise a thousand Whys? After all books were being live in the bookstore but NO BOOK COVER showed (except one, out of my 12 books in the whole series), isn't that weird? It's been a week since lived. Who will purchase a book without a cover and only a few pages (10%) sample preview? I guess I'm reasonable to make a complaint, right? But...

As far as we know this is the norm in this platform, so what we can do as an emergency solution is to use the A+ Content to add some images (4 maximum) including the cover & sample page inside. Although it really looks unprofessional, that's what we can do in the meantime.

I do have a question about why Apple & Google don't have this problem, basically the book metadata with all necessary information together with the most important book cover can be ready within 1-2 days. Isn't it due to the enormous distribution kingdom that Kindle has to handle and is overloaded already? 

No matter how, let's leave this question for the kingdom to solve & hopefully within a month...So, a little update for you & I'll place the KDP book link here only when everything is ready.

Au Revoir and have a beautiful weekend :D

Oiseau
14Jun2024 Thunder & Rain

Hi, hi !

Here are the selected articles that you can read for free via these friend links, exclusively for readers here and those in the Cocoa Design Life Blog, I will add some more from time to time by the end of each month. 

You don't need to have an account on Medium, but you're always welcome to join, then I can buy myself a cup of coffee while you're reading, clap or when you leave a comment, or subscribe via email on Medium; feel free as you wish.

Enjoy :D

Poetry:-

👉Tiny Flower Of The Wild

👉Hello, Anybody Here?

Prose:-

👉Jack Under The Moon ~ Nothing scary but romantic

👉Beautiful Calligraphy ~ Of the Islamic World

Hi, hi, 

Finally created my author's website on 3 May 2024, Hurray! 

Although I started my writing journey early in 2020, I spent quite a long time learning from scratch, there was a lot of stuff to take care of because an indie writer means everything was done on her/his own. 

It was a difficult start-up but worth it, I still remember the joy of contentment when the first book was published.., and from that minute, I could call myself an author. 

But it still took me some time before I had the confidence to apply ISBNs for my first series, Petit Paris, a travelogue with poetry, photographs & illustrations, that had just completed in April this year. 

Many experienced authors said that the first published book was the worst written one, I couldn't agree more. It's easy for me to unpublish because it was in ebook format, but I've made up my mind to keep it at the end. 

A record of the journey, the process I've treasured the same as publishing, or making a profit. The learning curve could be a lifetime, that's what an author should commit, I believe.

To end my first bird talk, I would like to share with you one of my favorite quotes:

A professional is simply an amateur who didn't quit 

~ Richard Bach 

Welcome to my world!
See You!

3 May 2024
Cloudy, Spring