From Courtroom Battles to Captivating Stories: Vincent Scarsella’s Unexpected Journey Revealed
Ashley
And so what do you do to market these books? How do you get them published? How do you get them out there? You send me your Amazon link. You’ve got all these books on Amazon. How do you go about that process?
Vincent Scarsella
Well, a few years ago, and it was after the first novel, it’s probably about 2015. I was working through royalty publishers. I mean, you know, I send stuff out to publishers and you have to have an agent. Well, I don’t have an agent. And then I tried to get it. I’m still trying to get an agent now that the agent’s out there. I’m looking for I’m looking for help. But so I found a thing I found through Amazon, something called Kindle Direct Publishing. And it’s a great tool to help indie publisher, indie novelists like me, get their word out and things for sale. And it’s an easy system to use. You go to Amazon, you join it. And I’m not a spokesman for Amazon. I have some problems with the way they they’re profit taking and some of my stuff. But and lately, I use to get the manuscripts formatted correctly. And to do the covers correctly. I use Fiverr.com. And I have a provider there of a gentleman from India, who is very inexpensive to do a manuscript and a cover. And he does it correct. So that Amazon’s tricky in their formatting sometimes. And I get that on there without with ease, actually, it costs anywhere from $100 $150 to get this guy to do a 350-page novel. And it’s great. And I use it. I’m in fact, he’s doing something for me now because I’m redoing the lawyers gone bad novels. And I have another novel that’s in the pipeline that I have to get to them. But we have a good relationship. I built a report with him, I send people to him. And it’s a great process. So, Kindle direct publishing KDP, you go to Amazon self-publishing, I think so that you could put on Google to get to them. And you can, you can upload, you can upload nonfiction, whatever you want, you can do to them a single story, you could do through them. And they have guidelines for pricing and everything. And it’s simple. So, for an indie guy like me, who doesn’t have an agent who I don’t even try anymore with publishing houses. It’s been great. And then the marketing end of it’s a lot of it’s a lot of sweat equity. You are going on social media, bothering your friends and family, and developing an email list that you can use and send out your latest information, and so forth. So that’s the process. It’s time consuming. Fortunately, again, I have a lot of time, yeah, to do that. And it’s fun for me. It’s actually fun. I mean, I’m retired. And I, you know, I’m not going to sit around the house. I’m not I’m not a pickle ball player. I, I like to golf, but I hate to golf. So it’s like, what am I going to do? And I love writing. And I love the process of trying. I love writing. I love entertaining. And they’re wanting to think they go together. I want people to read my stuff. And like I like, for example, I got an email today from somebody who wanted to get this second or the second book in the lawyers gone bad series called personal injuries. And they couldn’t find it. And they somehow contacted me. And I sent them the book and she wrote back and says, it’s a wonderful book. And, you know, and it’s gratifying. Yeah, you’re reading public, you will, limited reading public.
