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What Fantasy and SF eBooks in Spanish are popular in Amazon?

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La Guerra de los Cielos

 

If you write either Fantasy or Science Fiction in English and if you are thinking about translating your eBook into Spanish to sell it in Amazon, you have to keep an eye on Fernando Trujillo, since he seems to be doing several things right.

Fernando has 23 books in Amazon, with about 4 them in English and the rest in Spanish. He is certainly a prolific writer. He has several series that span for 3 or 4 books. One of his most popular titles is called “La Guerra de los Cielos” (coauthored with César García Muñoz) and he has even translated it into English with the title “War of the Heavens.”

The “La Guerra de los Cielos” saga currently has 3 books. It is difficult to say if this is Science Fiction or Fantasy: the story deals with a war between angels and demons in planet earth. Fernando’s style and influence seem to be more in place in the United States than in the traditional Latin American literature.

Many readers have complained that the book in Spanish has some misspellings and grammatical errors. Other readers have said that the book, at 500 pages, is huge and it takes too long to get interesting; yet others have said that they struggle with Fernando’s style, jumping from one point to another and having too many characters.

Still, one cannot deny his success: just the first volume of “La Guerra de los Cielos” has 147 reviews, with 70 of them at 5 stars.

Fernando and César have implemented two very successful strategies:

  • At times, they give away the first volume of the series at Amazon, with a price tag of $ 0.00. Some other times they price it at $ 0.99. That is still a great price, even in Latin America.
  • The first book does not really end; the story goes right into the second volume. While this has bothered some readers, it certainly is not a problem for Fernando’s fans. And he seems to have many.

If you write something similar to these books and are struggling to differentiate yourself in an overcrowded market in English, you should know that there is a good market in Spanish in Latin America and the United States: Fernando Trujillo is a clear example of a young segment of the population, with money in their pockets, claiming for more books like his.  These people have read several times Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, and now are reading and rereading “La Guerra de los CIelos.”

In the following weeks I will be giving you more examples of successful authors or books in Spanish in different genres such as Romance, Children´s or Self-Help.

Are you interested in a particular genre?

 

eBook review: SeaBEAN by Sarah Holding

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(La reseña en Español está en la parte inferior)

The manual of the C-Bean Mark 3 claims it is a standard Mobile Classroom, designed in Germany by Karla Ingermann and assembled in Brazil.

Why, then, did it arrive without any prior notice to the tiny island of St. Kilda, which has one single classroom of only six children?

Why, if the C-Bean has standard technology from the year 2018, no one has heard of it, let alone experienced its teleporting and virtual reality capabilities?

Alice, a ten year old girl living in St. Kilda becomes, by mere chance, the system administrator of the C-Bean and has all the privileges to use all the new 99 features of the product, but she really doesn’t know how to use them yet. Trying to use the C-Bean she lands herself and her friends in all kind of dangerous places.

To make things worse, the small community of St. Kilda is months away from being thrown out of their home by some Russian Oil Company who is about to buy the island to make an oil rig.

While desperately trying to raise a million pounds before May 1st to out-buy the island from the Russians, the people, and specially the children from St. Kilda, now have to deal with the C-Bean too.

And who is the mysterious gentleman who donated five hundred thousand pounds to help the islanders buy St. Kilda? What is his connection to the C-Bean?

What is the real story behind the new school teacher who is coming all the way from New York to substitute for Alice´s mother, the regular teacher?

What is “El Dorado” and how is it related to the C-Bean Technology?

Sarah Holding’s book is full of mysteries and action. Alice and her friends find themselves travelling around the world on the C-Bean, facing unknown dangers and probably a conspiracy that is bigger than themselves and the small island of St. Kilda.

Can six children, a dog, a parrot and a third generation teleporting-virtual-reality-super-know-all-computer-and-mobile-classroom outsmart a Russian Oil Company and possibly a global conspiracy?

Only one way to find out…

The SeaBEAN is a good book to keep your 10 year old entertained with a wonderful adventure that she would wish she could have. Don’t be surprised if at the end of the book, she says, “I wish we could have a C-Bean.” 

You can purchase your own copy at Amazon here.

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SeaBEAN por Sarah Holding

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El manual del C-Bean Mark 3 afirma que es un salón de clase móvil estándar, diseñado en Alemania por Karla Ingermann y ensamblado en Brasil.

¿Por qué, entonces, llegó sin ningún tipo de aviso previo a la pequeña isla de St. Kilda, que cuenta solamente con un salón de clases con seis niños?

¿Por qué, si el C- Bean tiene tecnología estándar del año 2018, nadie ha oído hablar de él, y mucho menos experimentado sus capacidades de teletransporte y realidad virtual?

Alice, una niña de diez años que vive en St. Kilda se convierte, por pura casualidad, en la  administradora del sistema del C-Bean y tiene todos los privilegios para utilizar las 99 nuevas  características del producto, pero realmente no sabe cómo usarlas todavía. Cada vez que intenta utilizar el C-Bean, ella y sus amigos acaban en todo tipo de lugares peligrosos.

Para empeorar las cosas, la pequeña comunidad de St. Kilda está a meses de ser expulsada de su casa por una empresa petrolera rusa, que está a punto de comprar la isla para hacer una plataforma petrolífera.

Mientras tratan desesperadamente de recaudar un millón de libras antes del 1º de mayo para rescatar su isla de los rusos, la gente, y en especial los niños de St. Kilda, ahora tienen que lidiar también con el C-Bean.

¿Y quién es el misterioso caballero que donó 500.000 libras para ayudar a los isleños a comprar St. Kilda? ¿Cuál es su conexión con el C-Bean?

¿Cuál es la verdadera historia detrás del nuevo maestro de escuela que ha venido desde  Nueva York para sustituir a la madre de Alice, la maestra regular?

¿Qué es ” El Dorado” y cómo se relaciona con la tecnología C-Bean?

El libro de Sarah Holding está lleno de misterios y de acción. Alice y sus amigos se encuentran viajando alrededor del mundo en el C-Bean, enfrentando peligros desconocidos y probablemente una conspiración que es más grande que ellos mismos y la pequeña isla de St. Kilda.

¿Pueden seis niños, un perro, un loro y una super-computadora-unidad-de-teletransporte-y-realidad-virtual-sabelotodo-de-tercera-generación-salón-de-clase-movil prevalecer sobre una empresa petrolera rusa y, posiblemente, una conspiración mundial?

Sólo hay una manera de averiguarlo…

SeaBEAN es un buen libro para mantener entretenido a tu hijo de 10 años con una maravillosa aventura que desearía poder tener. No te sorprendas si al final del libro, te dice: “Me gustaría que pudiéramos tener un C- Bean.”

Puedes comprar tu copia en Amazon aquí.

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