Love Over Kpop
This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions. The author will award a $25 Amazon GC to a randomly drawn commenter at the end of the tour. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour.
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. Seaching 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
Trish Russo has just started a job at an agency in LA that is paired with a Korean agency to help with managing the band, Friends5, in the States. But the finicky Woo In-ho won’t come out of his trailer to film the current music video. Trish is asked, as the new assistant, to talk to him. She tries to talk to him like a regular person. He responds to the normal treatment, but on one condition. She needs to help out and be in the video. What is a girl to do when a gorgeous K-pop Idol asks you to be in his video? Then, she reads the scene she is to appear in. There’s a scripted kiss. Will it all just be acting? Or will she let her feelings get entangled with In-ho threatening her new career?
About the Author:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorMarilynVix
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/MarilynVix
Website: http://marilynvix.com
Vella: https://www.amazon.com/Love-Over-Kpop/dp/B0945ZBBSH
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ReplyDeleteThank 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'll be happy to answer them.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a good read. I like the Korean character name, Woo In-ho
ReplyDeleteThank you. A beta reader suggested the name. I was having all sorts of trouble since I'm trying to not use a real Kpop idol's name. I think that was the hardest part about choosing his name, trying to not have it be a real idol's name. I was using Lee Min-ho and No Min-woo as inspiration, which were two actors that I loved in Kdramas. I love Minue/Icon's music too. Though, Taemin influenced my Kpop idol a bit as well. I wanted my Kpop idol character to be easily imagined as anyone's bias.
DeleteGreat theme to your book, kpop is so popular these days. Cheers to your tour.
ReplyDeleteThank you. It's become an obsession that just needs to end up working its way into a novel. I think it's my 80s new wave obsession that makes me like Kpop so much. I listen to lots of different bands while I write, Red Velvet, 9Muses, 2PM, SS501, Shinee, Boyfriend, and a few more. It's kind of addictive really. I finally got to see my first Kpop concert of SuperM, and Taemin on stage, just before lockdown last spring. Writing the novel is helping me be able to meet people that like Kpop as well.
DeleteI think I would become very frustrated with Vella. Prefer my books in one hit.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds really cool!
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