Yesterday through the 30th, everything in the e-book shop is 10% off, to celebrate the fact that we’re up and running again.
Moderately Grand Reopening Sale
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Moderately Grand Reopening Sale
Clinic Week Sale
I’ve put all three Clinic books on sale from today through Friday, each one $2.00 off.
Why? For karma. I’m struggling on the Ruby Key revisions, and the last time I put books on sale, the bad karma cleared. The line-for-scene is crawling, and most of the cards so far are red or orange. Not good. My stress level is rising, my confidence is falling.
I’d had some serious, bad stuff going on for a while the last time I put books on sale (also for karma), and everything got better. It may be New-Agey, it may seem crackpot. No matter. It worked last time, so I’m trying it again.
ADDED LATER:
Also put Hunting the Corrigan’s Blood on sale for a flat $3.00 (57% off). It’s not a clinic, but….
Anyway, I hope the discounts are a good thing for some of you, and provide good content and a useful service.
Hunting the Corrigan’s Blood, Second Edition
I know that the previous price on the print version of Hunting the Corrigan’s Blood was too high for a lot of readers to afford. It was considerably higher than I wanted to price it, too.
Through judicious use of reformatting and a one-point drop in body type size, I’ve manage to cut nearly 100 pages from the print edition of Hunting the Corrigan’s Blood without cutting a word of the story. Doing this, and taking a royalty cut, has allowed me to drop the print price to $11.95.
I can’t cut the font size anymore without affecting readability. I’ve already reformatted everything that required space. So I priced out doing it as a mass-market paperback edition, but that would have been significantly more expensive than a trade edition. Because the type size I’m now using is the size in most mass-market paperbacks, decreasing the page size increases the number of pages needed—in this case by a lot. With so many more pages necessary to print the book, the price on a mass-market paperback would have ended up around $14. So I can either have a trade paperback that costs less than most trade paperbacks, or a mass market that costs a whole lot more.
I hope this reformat moves the book into the reach of those of you who wanted it in print but couldn’t afford it before.
Create A Character Clinic Goes Gold
Both Create A Character Clinic and Hunting the Corrigan’s Blood are now available in print versions at the OneMoreWord Bookstore on Lulu.com.
The second version of CCC landed on my doorstep Saturday afternoon, and it came out just right. I was overjoyed that it turned out so well…and incredibly relieved that it turned out at all. Getting this book into print has been a real challenge.
On a personal note, I haven’t felt like myself since late last year (something you may have noticed from the tenor of this weblog). While I wrote most of this off to a whole lot of years of overwork and (since about December) the depression that sometimes affects me, I discovered not too long ago that the horrible headaches and the constant exhaustion are primarily being caused by high blood pressure. I’ve reverted to a vegan diet, and the blood pressure has already started to come down. I still don’t feel like myself. But I am starting to feel better.
Oh. And the e-book store is down for maintenance. If you’re hoping to buy any of the cool books we have up on the site, please keep checking.
And HAH! Again …
Got Lulu to work with Hunting the Corrigan’s Blood. Click the cover thumnail to see how the final wrap-around cover turned out. Have my copy on order now, and I’m excited about the way the book looks like it’s going to turn out. I have to thank JM Edwards, who did the copyedit for the print version and the e-book version that I’ll be uploading to the shop as soon as I can shrink the file sufficiently. (Adobe Acrobat and I are still not seeing eye to eye.)
But with the capability of producing print books, Cady II is back on the table. Though I’ve decided that I really want to go back and pick up where I left off with her, so I’ll be starting from scratch on the story. The ten-years-later one will have to wait.
This has been, for me, a pretty good couple of writing days so far. I’m also working on one manuscript edit for one of the folks who bought crits, and doing work on the Language Clinic (really need to update the WIP graph on that).
And Robin sent THE RUBY KEY out to editors at five separate publishers, each publisher so cool that I’m afraid to even mention any names here, lest I jinx myself. So I won’t. But… oh, wow. Typing with your fingers crossed is a bitch, but I’m managing.
Yesterday and Today
Got the series worldbuilding and proposal out the door yesterday; I’m really happy with it. Won’t know anything until the middle of next week at the earliest, because my editor is going to be out of town, but she acknowledged receipt and told me she’d take a look as soon as she could. That’s good enough.
I’m pulling the next Cady novel from production. Its future, based on interest in HTCB, is nonexistent. Instead, I’ll start in on the next worldbuilding novel.
Will be putting up a HAWKSPAR Edit bar, too. Have to have that finished by August.
Worked Out the Bugs, and Cady Is Live
I’m sending the cleaned-up, shrunken-down, revised version of HTCB to the three folks who ordered the first version before I could yank it down. For everyone else, Hunting the Corrigan’s Blood now ships at a lean and lovely 1.4 MB file size, is optimized for print for folks who want to save paper, and is also bookmarked for the daring souls who want to read onscreen.
Slightly revised the cover — the improved tagline is “Not every secret should see the light of day ….”
Still have to figure out what to say about the book itself. But it’s there. It works. And I’m so happy.
It’s Up, in BareBones Fashion
The shop entry is sparse, but Hunting the Corrigan’s Blood is once again available. I’ll jazz it up later, but right now, I have a stack of errands.
Back soon, more goodies to follow.
First Goal of the Day — Make Cady Available Again
And on HTCB, and Hawkspar
Got most of the rest of the edits on Hunting the Corrigan’s Blood done today. I should be able to have the book available in the next day or two.
In other news, got the revision requests for Hawkspar from Anna. They’re significant. So I’ll be working my way through them over the next few weeks. I’ll print off a copy of the manuscript tomorrow and start digging in. Anna made smart observations–fixing the problems she found is still going to be a lot of work.
It was a good work day, though. Am also working on one of my worldbuilder’s worlds. Fascinating stuff.
