Hi all- this is akadjian. Horace Boothroyd III hopped on our thread last week and mentioned his Kindle chapbook on Kurt Vonnegut's final work: Chap Book Review: Armageddon in Retropect. I thought it would be interesting to hear about his experiences so I asked him if he'd host.
He wrote this up, but unfortunately is in a bad way this week. I don't know if he'll be available to comment or not. I debated on whether to hold off and decided to publish his diary anyways.
I will add that Horace's Kindle book is quite good, worth much more than the $.99 price tag. The chapbook is a review of Vonnegut's book Armageddon in Retrospect, released posthumously after Vonnegut's death. As Vonnegut's characters try to make sense of their world in the same way Vonnegut did after his experiences during the bombing of Dresden, Horace similarly relates Vonnegut's writing to our own trying times.
If you're interested in Vonnegut and his work, especially as an activist, and/or helping Horace out, the chapbook is available here for 99 cents.
Without further ado, I turn the page over to Horace to talk about his experiences with Kindle Direct Publishing ...
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My experience with Kindle Direct Publishing from my ipad was an exercise in frustration. Although the article linked below claims there is a help desk system it is not much more than a list of the same question asked by multiple authors interspersed with spam, making looking for help a time consuming waste because in most cases the solution to all those authors asking questions is never presented.