Amazon has a great new feature, Kindle instant book previews, which lets third-party blogs, sites and apps give their users the ability to browse excerpts from books without leaving their sites or apps. Kindle instant previews can be embedded on the web or shared as a link via email, text and other favorite apps. Anyone can start reading the preview for free by clicking on the link. The benefits for bloggers like me are that it provides:
• Free content to keep traffic on your site
• Free access to a sample of the book
• Adjustable font sizes for the readers’ comfort
• Direct link to book purchase from Amazon
• Download link to get the free Kindle app
And as an author, I’m thrilled to be able to provide Kindle previews for my books. You will see them on the book pages of my website, and I’ll also be using them on my blog.
As a start, above is a preview of my chick lit novel Fooling Around With Cinderella, the first in my new Storybook Valley series. What happens when the glass slippers pinch Cinderella’s toes? When Jaine Andersen proposes a new marketing role to the local amusement park, general manager Dylan Callahan charms her into filling Cinderella’s glass slippers for the summer. Her reign transforms Jaine’s ordinary life into chaos that would bewilder a fairy godmother. Secretly dating her bad boy boss, running wedding errands for her ungrateful sisters, and defending herself from the park’s resident villain means Jaine needs lots more than a comfy pair of shoes to restore order in her kingdom. Follow the links to buy, share and preview the book. Enjoy!
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Stacy Juba has written sweet and sassy chick lit novels, mysteries about determined women sleuths, and entertaining books for young adults and children. Her books include the Storybook Valley chick lit series and the Hockey Rivals young adult sports novels. Stacy is also a freelance developmental editor and online writing instructor whose signature course, Book Editing Blueprint: A Step-By-Step Plan to Making Your Novels Publishable, empowers fiction writers to think like an editor so they can save time and money. She also runs the Shortcuts for Writers: Editing Made Simple group on Facebook. Join her Facebook group and download the free toolkit 7 Simple Steps To Nailing Your Book Blurb. You can also visit her website Shortcuts for Writers and her Hockey Rivals website.
