What's Kindle Vella?
The short-form platform from Amazon Kindle offers a low-barrier way to publishing and making money from writing.
Editor’s note: I have written two stories on this platform. I share links below. Please read them and support my writing!
Hi! You may have heard me mention that I write clean thriller fiction for Kindle Vella. What is Kindle Vella? It’s a collection of serialized fiction novellas and non-fiction short books from Amazon Kindle that is divided into “episodes.”
The short-form platform offers a low-barrier way to publishing. This is a paying platform, and there are several ways to make money — from royalties to short-term bonuses. That is clearly dependent on the popularity of the Vellas.
To read the Vellas, you must buy low-cost tokens (easy to buy, especially if you already are an Amazon customer. The first three episodes of any Vella are free. After that, the cost to read depends on the word count of the episode. The tokens cost $1.99 for 200 tokens, and you can read roughly 20,000 words for that amount. The cost goes down the more tokens you buy.
This is a great way to support both upcoming and veteran writers.
My Vellas so far:
"Doe" is about a multicultural family dealing with a zombie outbreak. https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B0B2F5Z7MZ and
"Sixty" is about a crime reporter who revisits the scene of her first big story – a serial killer (under the pen name Ursula Marcher). https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B09VZSMT12
Please read them! The first three episodes of each are free. I hope you enjoy them! Subscribe to my newsletter to keep up to date on all my writing: https://www.flowcode.com/page/yvettewalker