My First E-Book Of Christian Poetry

I’m very happy to announce that I’ve just published my first e-book of Christian poetry.  I’ve been writing poetry all my life, and during the 1990′s, things got pretty rough in my world.  I hit rock bottom and wasn’t sure how to bring myself back out of it.  Then, I started writing poetry.  I wrote hundreds of poems, but many of them were just the rantings of someone lost in the world.  I’ve titled my book Silver Cloud-Poetry for Christians, and hope that it brings at least one person in this world to the foot of the cross.

Over the past couple of weeks, I went through all those poems and picked out the best of the lot.  I went back through each one and polished them up a bit, making them more readable.  That’s when I decided to put them into e-book form and offer them out to the world.  I know the first thing everyone is going to ask is, are you charging for them.  The answer is yes, but I’m only asking $2.00 or $2.50 per copy, depending on where you buy it.

I’ve been trying to come up with a way to sell my e-book from my site, but I think that’s just a little beyond my brain at the moment.  With all the problems I’ve been having with websites and such, I decided to let the experts handle this part of the process and have my book for sale at Lulu.com for $2.50 per copy.  The reason it’s 50 cents more is due to their costs.

I’ve also added the e-book to my webidz store for sale at the price of $2.00.  I can do it for that price as I don’t have to pay someone else to sell it for me.  The problem is that because I have a free store there, I can only offer 1 book at a time.  I can relist it a thousand times, but I have to do it by hand.  Kinda sucks, but that’s life.  I don’t mind, I’m just thrilled that I finally convinced myself to do this.  I’ve been thinking about it for a very long time, but because of the backlash I’ve gotten because I write in rhyme, I almost didn’t do it.

(UPDATE: I figured out how to add more than one copy.  Thanks to the wonderful people in the forums at Webidz.)

I know there will be someone out there who gives me crap for doing this, for one reason or another, but I don’t care.  This is something I had to do for me and my family.  In the future, there will be more coming out.  I’ve got a whole cupboard full of stuff I’ve written over the years and it’s going to waste.  Keep on the look out for more poetry books coming out in the near future.  There will be one for children, one for nature lovers, and one for, well, lovers.

I’m also working on two more e-books of writing prompts, but they’re going a little slower than I’d like.  I have a thousand ideas, but I’ve also got an inner critic who talks me out of doing a lot of the stuff I think about.  Sometimes, I’m my own worst enemy.

As the other books come out, I’ll post about them here.  I do hope that you’ll run over to one of the sites and pick up your copy.  It would totally make my day.

Tags: Christian Poetry, Poetry Books, Poetry For Christians, Selling Ebooks, Writing Poetry

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