She’s learned, for example, that it’s critical to post new episodes at least once a week. Romance novelist Audrey Carlan, author of the Kindle Vella series, The Marriage Auction.
Her experience is a window into the tech giant’s latest effort to rethink how people publish, buy, and read stories. It’s supplementing royalties with bonuses in the meantime to help keep authors engaged.īest-selling romance novelist Audrey Carlan‘s formula for success as an author on Amazon’s Kindle Vella sounds almost like relationship advice: it takes commitment, communication, and an ability to spice things up with some suspense.Ĭarlan’s series The Marriage Auction is one of the most popular on Kindle Vella, Amazon’s new mobile platform for episodic stories. Vella faces tough competition from Wattpad, Radish Fiction, and many others.
