Alana Melos's Blog

I won't say I'm a popular author, though I do have fans. The money I make from this isn't "changing your life" money. It helps pay bills and supplements my income, but that's about it. What does this have to do with Kindle Unlimited? Well, this is still a job and money is still money.

For those who don't know, the Kindle Unlimited program (hereafter called KU) is an Amazon program which allows authors to enlist, and then they pay the authors a certain fraction of a cent per page read. In theor...

Lately, I've been noticing more and more indie authors going to Patreon as well as publishing through Amazon or D2D or Smashwords (or all three). What Patreon is, for those who don't know, is a place for artists to post exclusive content for people who support them per month. The donations can be low as a dollar, or high as... well, whatever the artist puts it at.

The content creator can do anything, really, so long as people are willing to support them. It looks like it could potentially be a...

I'm out of clever and/or witty titles for blog posts.

It's been a while, but I have been busy! I'm going to poke Jotham shortly to get me the cover to the next Unusual Suspects since it's done and has been sitting in my word processor gathering virtual dust. I didn't notice how time slipped away from me as "real life" work has been busy and I've been writing quite a bit on the next Villainess, The Queen of Disks. As always, I think everything is terrible and horrible, but usually upon rereads...

I think I'm going to stop advertising new releases here. I do have a mailing list, so if people want to keep updated, they can join that. I keep forgetting to post new releases here anyway in the blur of activity which covers a release. I may still show some cover art though, cause I think Jotham does a really good job.

So, what then to put here, Alana? Information and thoughts, mostly, relating to this whacky publishing biz. I've been super busy at work lately and in real life, so I haven't h...

The fourth book in the Delilah Devilshot series, Silver for Souls, is now LIVE on Amazon! I really love this series, but it keeps getting bigger with every book. I wanted this to be a serial, with relatively juicy big segments, but a serial nonetheless. At the rate I'm going, they're going to turn into novels!

Jotham, as always, did a great job on the covers.

http://amzn.to/2nhOGzG

Wantonly Wicked #1: Last Night is now an audio book, narrated by me! That's right, I thought I'd try my hand at narrating books, and it's been an educational experience. Jotham, as always, did a great job adapting the cover.

It occurred to me as I sent out my mailing list that I totally forgot to add my writing forecast. I usually do that, and I'm not going to spam just to send that out, so I'll put it here.

First and foremost, there's a anthology being putting together by Yolanda Olson called "Twist Me" (which, I'm not really fond of the name, but whatever) which is going to be "dark", pretty much whatever flavor we want. I think dark romance? Not sure. Anyway. All proceeds of that is going to the ASPCA so I'm wr...

I've gotten a few reviews on Goodreads lately for Dominating Her Intern... and they've been one stars. I'm thrilled people have been reading (or listening to) it! I wish they'd review it on Amazon, one star or not.

What I find kind of funny and very interesting is the aspect of the role-reversal in the story and how people have reacted to it. It's a femdom story, or female domination, so the woman's in charge. I've read a lot of BDSM shorts (with and without billionaires) in preparation to wri...

As you all know, I have many audio books made of my shorts (and not so shorts). For all of these, I've used ACX to hire a producer (the narrator) to produce the book for a royalty share of every copy sold. It's a pretty nice deal, free money, quite honestly since most of my part is done and I just have to wrangle a new type of cover from Jotham. I mentioned a while back to my husband that it sounded fun to do that, to narrate a book. Much to my surprise, over Christmas, he bought me the very...

I thought I'd scheduled this post, but evidently I did not!

The very last Witches of Back End short, Crystal Balls and Hot Cauldrons, is LIVE on Amazon! The witches defeat the warlocks threatening to invade their sleepy little town in the only way they know how: lots of sex.

Check it out today!