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Alfreda Novels Update
Nov. 25th, 2013 07:40 pmSo. Good news, bad news. Bad news first.
Kindred Rites is not coming out in December. Between everyone's health connected to cover and manuscript prep, we just lost too much time. The perils of self-publishing. It is coming out in January, 2014, approximately January 21st. The stupendous Vonda N McIntyre is whipping its formatting into shape, so I hope to have a readable ARC for reviewers soon. If you got one of the first book to review, you are welcome to the second. We want reviews! We want the world to love Allie! Feel free to recommend other review sites, but they have to wait until there's a cover. Reviewers, If you want to start on it faster and do not mind some ARC weirdness/no cover, I can make a basic PDF for people.
Good News. I did hire someone to do a cover with "Magic, Menace, and the Determined Girl". (Selling my firstborn child) It is cover art by a professional using recombined things in his copious files, plus a few special touches. In other words, good stuff I could afford. I like it. You will see hints of things all the way in the third book in it! Like a New York cover, it is not an illustration--it is marketing. I hope it will attract the teens and adults not trying the book right now. I hope you like it well enough to recommend it to friends. Ebook cover for Night Calls coming soon.
Still hoping for a POD this year. Depends on how hard it is for me to learn CreateSpace. Lightning Source has changed into IngramSpark for self-pubs, unless you can convince them you must be Lightning Source. I'm sorry, but I cannot afford the terms at IngramSpark. Returns and deep discounting would kill me. So if I cannot convince them that I only care about getting acid free paper and ink from them, and hardback potential, I will have to find a small press or small packager willing to do an acid free edition. As far as I can tell, CreateSpace never guarantees acid free anything. I want that. (I am an SF writer. When the EMF strike hits, I want my books to survive.)
My artist (yes, I am being secretive for a day or so longer!) is going to get back to work on the POD cover after Thanksgiving, and start Kindred Rites ebook as soon as possible. So--progress!
If I can get the PDF proofing done tomorrow, I am ready to tackle CreateSpace. I will get a template from Book Design Templates this week, too, for the other Allie books. After all this, back to the last of Alie 3. I hope.
And here ends the progress report!
Kindred Rites is not coming out in December. Between everyone's health connected to cover and manuscript prep, we just lost too much time. The perils of self-publishing. It is coming out in January, 2014, approximately January 21st. The stupendous Vonda N McIntyre is whipping its formatting into shape, so I hope to have a readable ARC for reviewers soon. If you got one of the first book to review, you are welcome to the second. We want reviews! We want the world to love Allie! Feel free to recommend other review sites, but they have to wait until there's a cover. Reviewers, If you want to start on it faster and do not mind some ARC weirdness/no cover, I can make a basic PDF for people.
Good News. I did hire someone to do a cover with "Magic, Menace, and the Determined Girl". (Selling my firstborn child) It is cover art by a professional using recombined things in his copious files, plus a few special touches. In other words, good stuff I could afford. I like it. You will see hints of things all the way in the third book in it! Like a New York cover, it is not an illustration--it is marketing. I hope it will attract the teens and adults not trying the book right now. I hope you like it well enough to recommend it to friends. Ebook cover for Night Calls coming soon.
Still hoping for a POD this year. Depends on how hard it is for me to learn CreateSpace. Lightning Source has changed into IngramSpark for self-pubs, unless you can convince them you must be Lightning Source. I'm sorry, but I cannot afford the terms at IngramSpark. Returns and deep discounting would kill me. So if I cannot convince them that I only care about getting acid free paper and ink from them, and hardback potential, I will have to find a small press or small packager willing to do an acid free edition. As far as I can tell, CreateSpace never guarantees acid free anything. I want that. (I am an SF writer. When the EMF strike hits, I want my books to survive.)
My artist (yes, I am being secretive for a day or so longer!) is going to get back to work on the POD cover after Thanksgiving, and start Kindred Rites ebook as soon as possible. So--progress!
If I can get the PDF proofing done tomorrow, I am ready to tackle CreateSpace. I will get a template from Book Design Templates this week, too, for the other Allie books. After all this, back to the last of Alie 3. I hope.
And here ends the progress report!
