What is Vella? It’s a new reading platform by Amazon available through their website or the Kindle iOS app. It works very similar to other online serial platforms like Wattpad and Radish, with a coin or token pay system to unlock episodes. Each story has 3 FREE episodes to get the flavor of the story, and then can be unlocked further after purchasing tokens. The tokens can be purchased in different packages, with more given for the more expensive bundles.
Paid episodes are priced by word count. For example, 3500 words in an episode would be 35 tokens. The word limit on Vella per episode is 600 to 5,000 words. So, no episode can be more than 50 tokens or at the very least, 6 tokens. When logging into Amazon’s website or through the iOS app, you can get 200 free tokens to start reading. You can follow stories and like individual episodes. After purchasing your first bundle of tokens, you are awarded a weekly “Fav” which you can bestow on your favorite story you’ve read that week. The likes, favs and follows all help stories become more visible in the system like many other platforms.
The fastest and easiest way to find stories are to follow direct links to them. Each story is assigned an ASIN, but I have found that search abilities on Vella can be hard to isolate. The easiest way to find Vella stories by your favorite author is by doing a search with their author name, a combination of their story title and their author name, or just the story name. Searching for just Vella doesn’t seem to bring up much yet. But the system is still new, and things are being sorted out daily as the platform gets more use. To find “Love Over Kpop” by Marilyn Vix:
• Search for Marilyn Vix, Love Over Kpop Marilyn Vix, or Love Over Kpop
• Use the direct story link. https://www.amazon.com/Love-Over-Kpop/dp/B0945ZBBSH
• Pick up your 200 FREE TOKENS!
• READ THE FIRST 3 EPISODES FOR FREE!
• Follow and “Fav” to stay on top of new episodes posted weekly.
-Marilyn Vix
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ReplyDeleteThank you. It is a completed manuscript being rewritten/edited and then posted weekly. Vella does allow for it to be published later as an ebook, but there is a 60 day waiting period after it's been taken down before it can be published. But the exciting thing is that readers can follow along with the progress each week as I progress through the book. There is no way to comment in the Vella system yet, but I'm hoping this blog tour will allow everyone to comment and let me know how I'm doing. I've also written an online novel on Wattpad. So, it follows my writing process to write as a serial. Thank you for stopping by.
DeleteThank you so much for being a part of my tour. I'm looking forward to reading and responding to any comments. If anyone has any questions about Kindle Vella, I'd be happy to answer them.
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ReplyDeleteI am such a Marilyn Vix fan! I love her books. The "Beware of Warlocks" book series is the best!
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DeleteThank you! It really means a lot to me to hear this. It's comments like this that motivate and inspire me to keep writing and creating more stories. So, thank you again so much.
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ReplyDeleteSounds like a great book, can't wait to read it!
ReplyDeleteThank you. I'm looking forward to hearing people's feedback. Since Vella doesn't have comment ability right now, please feel free to comment here or on my blog. I'm reading through and getting lots of great comments from everyone. Would love to hear what you think.
DeleteThis author is new to me. Thanks for the contest.
ReplyDeleteThis author is new to me. Thanks for the contest.
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