Finally made a top 100 list!

[unionrdr]

Yahoo! I made #68 on the top 100 beer books on Amazon! And after only about 1 week! http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/digital-text/156182011/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_kstore_1_5_last#4
It's gratifying to at least have made it this far on one list!...:rockin:

 

[dstranger99]

Congrad's !

 

[unionrdr]

I was surprised when I checked my sales report, then saw #68 ranking, checked BEER e-books. Craig of craigtube showed it on his kindle device in his latest home brew Wednesday video & listed the link under the video as well! Maybe I'll finally get some recognition for my books? Feels good, I must say.

 

[Dixon9717]

Congrats that's awesome....

 

[dstranger99]

How did you get the book published? Did you find a publisher? Are you only doing Ebooks, or will there be paperbacks as well?

 

[unionrdr]

Amazon/Kindle is self-publishing. I wrote/formatted my books with apache Open Office, saving them as .doc files for upload in the kindle format. Used paint.net to design the covers myself. Amazon has another service to publish paperbacks that's a lot more involved. I definitely want to sell paperbacks as well. But I have to do every part of the covers, page numbers, the edge of the cover, etc myself. A lot more work that I'm still learning. I could use some help with the paperback publishing stuff so I can get those going as well. ** Here's the link to Kindle self-publishing if you're interested...https://kdp.amazon.com/ Microsoft WORD is more directly understood by the Kindle uploader software, but Apache Open Office will work as well. Just save your book at any point (like when you're done writing for the day) as a .doc file, since Kindle needs that file type. Once you get the hang of how it works, writing is fun! Here's a link to Apache Open Office, as it's free. Unlike Word, which is really expensive...http://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html

 

[Billy-Klubb]

that's awesome! congrats, bruva!

 

[TheCADJockey]

Cool man that's exciting! Thanks for the tips on self publishing too. I love to write but just gave up thinking it would be a PITA to publish. Maybe I will actually clean up my book. Super cool buddy, if I get a Kindle this holiday I'll pick up your book for sure

 

[Beernik]

That's awesome!

 

[venomfast]

comgrats

 

[unionrdr]

They have a free Kindle app on the page the books are purchased from to read'em on a PC, laptop, etc. It stores a bunch of E-books as well. If you use Open Office to write, you have to go to "insert" at the top of the window, click on that. Another little window pops in with choices like "line break", "page break, etc. Use line break to separate paragraphs manually. page break when you're done with that page & want to start another. Also use line break to start the first line of a page lower than the very top of the page. Then the left, right or center justification, depending on whether you're doing a chapter heading, chapter list, title page, etc. The line break command must also be used here as well. I haven't learned all the tricks of open office yet, but I can help y'all with it well enough at this point to get by.

 

[titansvol]

very nice

 

[kev211]

Dude thats super cool! I have a slight untreatable addiction to Amazon so I may just have to go buy this. Support a home brewer, and feed my addiction to home brewing and Amazon?

Win win win.

 

[unionrdr]

The book is geared to the beginner wannabe as well as those that basically know what they're doing. I've included definitions as well as some of my recipes. A little humor sprinkled on it here & there makes it an interesting as well as informative read. All that with history as well for only $3.29, one of the cheapest HB e-books out there...

 

[kev211]

I would drop myself somewhere between the beginner and basically know what Im doing so it should help haha

 

[unionrdr]

Hey, everything works if ya let it! The whole idea for it was an inspiration from a sandbagger holding up traffic on rt254...

 

[Cyclman]

bought a copy.

 

[unionrdr]

Thanks! I checked this morning after starting at #68 yesterday, then down to #77 last night. Then up to #21 this morning! Whoopeee! http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/digital-text/156182011/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_kstore_1_5_last#2

 

[unionrdr]

I was inspired around lunch time to start another homebrewing book. Tippy Tippy Tappy II: Historic Styles & Struggles!

 

[unionrdr]

Well, this is kind of exciting. I went up to #17 on Amazon/Kindle's UK best seller's list! Oh yeah! Down to #65 here though. Over there, I beat out Mitch Steel's IPA book buy one position. That's kind of humbling yet good to me. I'm gratefull all the folks that liked the book enough to put me on the top 100 best seller's list with this one. Thank you & I hope everyone enjoys my musings. Book 2 is being written already.

 

[unionrdr]

I'm starting to feel like Gomez Addam's watching his stock ticker! Just made #3 on UK best seller's list. Wahoooo!! :rockin: I also listed my books here; http://booksonline.directory/myBooks.php