For my UK readers who said they were waiting for the next book:
The price of the Pride’s Children: NETHERWORLD ebookis slated to be its lowest price (£2.99) for a long time starting MONDAY, October 24, 2022 in the UK, at 8am.
If you have an Amazon.co.uk account, this is the time to acquire your copy of NETHERWORLD!
If you choose to review NETHERWORLD, buying a copy allows you to be listed as a ‘verified purchase,’ which carries a higher weight in the algorithms than just leaving a review after reading an ARC. Win/win.
If you have been waiting, now’s the time, and Oct. 24 is the first and least expensive day. The price goes up daily until it’s back at its permanent price, £8.87.
Or you can still join Booksprout – and get an ARC to review.
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Thank you!
Can’t wait to hear what you have to say. That’s the part I’m really looking forward to.
Will try to take a shorter time to give you the final volume of the story. I’ve already started writing.
For my readers who said they were waiting for the next book:
The price of the Pride’s Children: NETHERWORLD ebook is slated to be its lowest price ($2.99) for a long time starting WEDNESDAY, October 19, 2022 in the US.
If you have an Amazon.com account, this is the time to acquire your copy of NETHERWORLD!
If you choose to review NETHERWORLD, buying a copy allows you to be listed as a ‘verified purchase,’ which carries a higher weight in the algorithms than just leaving a review after reading an ARC. Win/win.
If you have been waiting, now’s the time, and Oct. 19 is the first and least expensive day. The price goes up daily until it’s back at its permanent price, $9.99.
[It will be Oct. 24 for the Amazon UK site. I’ll send out a reminder, too.]
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Thank you!
Can’t wait to hear what you have to say. That’s the part I’m really looking forward to.
Will try to take a shorter time to give you the rest of the story. I’ve already started writing.
From the KDP email Tuesday, Sep. 20, 2022, at 12:10AM
What’s next
Availability. It takes up to 3 days for Amazon.com and up to 5 days for other marketplaces to show as in stock. [IT IS SHOWING AS AVAILABLE]
Linking. The detail pages of your print book and eBook should link within 48 hours, but it can take up to 5 days. See requirements for linking. [THE PRINT AND EBOOK VERSIONS ARE ALREADY LINKED ON THE PRODUCT PAGE]
Product description. It can take 24-48 hours to appear on the detail page. [SHOWING]
Look Inside the Book. This feature will be available in 9-10 business days. [CURRENTLY SHOWING A SAMPLE FROM THE EBOOK; NOT YET THE PRINT VERSION – WHICH HAS MY PREFERRED FORMATTING]
Book Details. Changes to contributor, series name, series number, page count, description, keywords, and browse categories take up to 72 hours to appear. [ORIGINAL DETAILS ENTERED]
Next for me: waiting
So I still have some waiting to do, but the paperback version has been accepted, and will be available after a few wait periods.
I just ordered a couple of author copies – to arrive Oct. 5-7. Woo hoo!
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NOTE: I price the print volumes so that I get about the same royalty whichever version a reader purchases (around $6.50) – the rest of the cost of a print version is paper, printing, and shipping – which is why ebooks are so much cheaper. But there’s nothing quite like the heft of your own heavy book, so I always get a few paper copies.
It has been a bit of an odyssey, as the book was finished in March – but cover and formatting were only finalized late last night, and Amazon accepted it in about an hour – record time!
I’ve set up a Kindle Countdown Deal for NETHERWORLD on Oct 19-26, starting at $2.99 and going back to $9.99 by the end, and it is in Kindle Unlimited for those with the KU service. They require that the book’s price not be changed for 30 days before a Countdown – so we have to wait until it’s been published that long.
Meanwhile, it is already available for the hard-core reader. I also set up a Countdown for PURGATORY, to start Sep 21-28, if you haven’t read it.
Good for Christmas presents.
The print version had an unacceptable flaw: on ONE page, the text touched the gutter margin; it is being corrected. ONE page. Picky, picky, Amazon. I like that bots and algorithms can maintain quality – a human would be bored to tears examining every one of 540 pages for minute errors; a computer does it quickly and without errors caused by ennui.
As soon as I have that tiny correction, up goes the paperback; hardcovers for both books will be available as soon as I can make the appropriate cover for PURGATORY (I already have the one for NETHERWORLD).
What can I tell you about NETHERWORLD I haven’t already?
It starts only hours after PURGATORY ends, back on Night Talk in New York City with our late night talk show hostess Dana Lewiston. Will she get some juicy revelations out of Andrew O’Connell, last minute guest?
And what was he doing in Boston that morning?
And what’s with the pigeons?
Dana has a secret, too.
And there is a waltz, and a festive treat. Why?
The fun process of getting editorial and customer reviews has begun
I will be out for some medical stuff for about two weeks – not much will happen until all that is over – we ME/CFS types have such a small amount of energy that appointments and such wipe us out, and we dare not push because the crash could make us permanently worse.
So the part I enjoy, after the book is finished, will be paused (the main reason for this post).
I can’t wait to get to Book 3 of the Trilogy
Life keeps interfering, but
I have a VERY rough draft (which I hope no one ever sees), and
Writing has begun (I couldn’t help myself)
I already have a good idea what I want for the cover!
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You are up-to-date for now – and I’m excited to finally have something to offer readers.
Don’t rush – unless you can’t wait. Oct. 19 will have a Kindle Countdown Deal at a very good price for my doorstopper volume.
I fought with WordPress’ formatting in the current theme (Twenty Eleven), so that I could post the Table of Contents and the beginning of Pride’s Children: NETHERWORLD.
It is possible to read this scene (though it might make a bit more sense otherwise) without having read PURGATORY; there are no major spoilers.
I would still recommend reading the first book first, especially since it’s 0.99* (and worldwide equivalents) in ebook until January 20, 2022, but I’m not the reading police, and each book stands alone reasonably well.
Plus you can see my writing style.
And have a bit more of Andrew’s snark.
And I don’t have Book #2 finished yet, and y’all know I’m slow if well-intentioned.
It will remind previous readers of the beginning of Book #1 – as we’re back on Night Talk with Dana the shark.
Watch the NETHERWORLD tab – under construction.
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*An easy way to keep a writer motivated, and now an inexpensive stocking stuffer.
Also necessary for writers who are temporarily still bogged down in the minutiae of moving, is encouragement.
Until further notice – until I’m enough settled to finish NETHERWORLD, the second book in the Pride’s Children trilogy – if you have someone to whom you would recommend it, now is the time to send them a gift email for Pride’s Children:PURGATORY– for a buck.
It couldn’t possibly hurt.
Nor could it possibly hurt to remind them that reviews are also a very good thing readers do for writers.
For new followers and readers – and I’m still looking for reviewers (contact me for electronic Review Copies). Please recommend me to your reading friends.
Do yourself a favor – if at all doubtful, check out the negative as well as the positive reviews; no book is for everyone, and I’d rather you not be disappointed.
I’m up to my ears in writing Book 2 at the same time as I’m trying to do some promotion for Book 1; if anything, I’m even busier than when I was writing and then publishing.
I am; I am so close to the Book 2 revision I can taste it. Just let me get this sale started… Why? Because you can only run one KCD in each 90-day period you are signed up for KDP Select (Kindle Digital Publishing Select), and the price has to remain fixed for 30 days before and 14 days after the sale (the 30-day + sale (up to 7 days) + 14-day periods all have to be within that 90-day period), and on some days my brain refuses to do math. Fortunately, Amazon Kindle’s little pop-ups guide you through setting up the sales, and I think they are a wonderful tool to get more readers.
NOTES:
*I know the Kindle Countdowns don’t reach other countries – I believe Amazon is working on it; some country’s protectionist laws make it not possible there. BUT I will be having a general sale – 5 days at 0.99 everywhere at the end of April (will let everyone know when that happens), so if you can’t get to this deal, there will be one VERY soon.
**Wordpress changed a bunch of things to make things ‘better’; I will master them as soon as I can (I do change slowly, especially when my time goes to writing). I’m sure the improvements will make things easier once I understand them – they usually do – but right now I’m suspended between two worlds and the brain refuses the jumps.
The details for the Kindle Countdown Deal are here. Also, UK.
Suitable for gifts.
The sale (if I did this right) goes up to midnight on Dec. 21, Pacific Time. If you want to leave it to the very last minute…
Or you can go directly to the Amazon page for the ebook version of PURGATORY, and the above box, updated, will be to your upper right.
Remember – the sale applies only to Kindle.
Thanks for telling your friends
The very best thing you can do for a writer you want to encourage to produce more work, is to recommend their existing work – word of mouth is THE most powerful form of advertising ever discovered.
AFTER that come sales and reviews (don’t be shy – post on review writing).
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