I recently published a long article in a local magazine

Eleanores · 09-26-2011, 06:49 AM

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09-26-2011, 06:49 AM	#1
Eleanores Initiate Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 1	I recently published a long article in a local magazine By steeling yourself to accept rejection. Anyone capable of using a QWERTY keyboard is free to turn their masterpiece into a Kindle eBook through Amazon.com’s Kindle Direct Publishing program. But the Kindle Singles wow gold series is a whole different ball of wax—it’s curated by an editor, David Blum, who determines which stories are tapped for the exclusive Singles club. The lucky selectees get a promotional push from Amazon and thus rarely languish at the bottom of the site’s sales rankings, a netherworld littered with self-published tomes. Pitching your article to Blum is easy enough: Just send either the completed manuscript or a brief synopsis to kindle-singles@amazon. “The only criteria we use to decide what goes up there is, what do we think is really fresh, well written, and interesting?” says Russ Grandinetti, Amazon’s vice president of Kindle content. Your piece should also be considerably lengthier than typical magazine fare—even the skimpiest Singles exceed 5,000 words. Amazon won’t reveal what percentage of submissions the company accepts, but it’s surely only a small fraction. If you don’t make the cut, don’t despair: The list of famous writers who endured numerous rejections is almost as long as Gravity’s Rainbow. You and your friends will surely laugh about Amazon’s folly when you win your first Pulitzer. Website:www.gold4wower.com