Reissues of "Indelible" and "All That Glitters"
Mundania Press finally closed its doors. Not unexpected, but a sudden demise after an extended bout of death-throes.
I got my rights back to "Indelible," Book 1 of the "Indelible" series and "All That Glitters," which was originally published by AweStruck as an e-book. Mundania bought AweStruck and all chugged along well for a while until, according to Mundania, all AweStruck titles were moved form the original website to join Mundania's titles under a separate imprint. Then ATG disappeared suddenly from Amazon and that issue was never resolved. AweStruck titles were only available through Mundania's website.
Authors were not informed of this. I thought the problem was at Amazon but was told only that I could not resolve the problem myself. Finally, Mundania 'fessed up, but by then I had a lot of other fish to fry, including self-publishing "A Swift Brand of Justice," Book 2 of the "Indelible" series, after Mundania returned my rights to me before publishing the book.
Now I am reissuing both books. ATG will keep its original cover. "Indelible" has a new one.
ATG is having the glitches ironed out of the new formatting before it gets uploaded to KDP and reissued. It will also be available as a paperback as well as an e-book.
I am in the last 80 pages of tweaking "Indelible" before it goes for formatting. Why am I tweaking? Because I can. No rewrites, but a little tightening. Omitting a repeat phrase that now jumps out at me but did not when the book was professionally edited by Mundania. Funny how time distances a writer and can restore objectivity. Very few typos were missed, but I found three and corrected them.
This will be one very clean manuscript when I'm done. ATG always was...the editor at AweStruck told me it was the cleanest manuscript he had seen in 10 years when I sent it to him. After he and I were done, it was even cleaner.
My goal is to have both books available by the time the Oregon City Arts Festival rolls around early August. I still have copies of the original issue of "Indelible" that I'll put on sale and package with Book 2 at a discount.
More and more small presses are folding. The publishing world today demands that writers remain flexible and willing to adapt to whatever bumps in the road they encounter.
Flexibility is my middle name. Adaptability is my game. Through necessity. The times they are certainly a-changing.
I got my rights back to "Indelible," Book 1 of the "Indelible" series and "All That Glitters," which was originally published by AweStruck as an e-book. Mundania bought AweStruck and all chugged along well for a while until, according to Mundania, all AweStruck titles were moved form the original website to join Mundania's titles under a separate imprint. Then ATG disappeared suddenly from Amazon and that issue was never resolved. AweStruck titles were only available through Mundania's website.
Authors were not informed of this. I thought the problem was at Amazon but was told only that I could not resolve the problem myself. Finally, Mundania 'fessed up, but by then I had a lot of other fish to fry, including self-publishing "A Swift Brand of Justice," Book 2 of the "Indelible" series, after Mundania returned my rights to me before publishing the book.
Now I am reissuing both books. ATG will keep its original cover. "Indelible" has a new one.
ATG is having the glitches ironed out of the new formatting before it gets uploaded to KDP and reissued. It will also be available as a paperback as well as an e-book.
I am in the last 80 pages of tweaking "Indelible" before it goes for formatting. Why am I tweaking? Because I can. No rewrites, but a little tightening. Omitting a repeat phrase that now jumps out at me but did not when the book was professionally edited by Mundania. Funny how time distances a writer and can restore objectivity. Very few typos were missed, but I found three and corrected them.
This will be one very clean manuscript when I'm done. ATG always was...the editor at AweStruck told me it was the cleanest manuscript he had seen in 10 years when I sent it to him. After he and I were done, it was even cleaner.
My goal is to have both books available by the time the Oregon City Arts Festival rolls around early August. I still have copies of the original issue of "Indelible" that I'll put on sale and package with Book 2 at a discount.
More and more small presses are folding. The publishing world today demands that writers remain flexible and willing to adapt to whatever bumps in the road they encounter.
Flexibility is my middle name. Adaptability is my game. Through necessity. The times they are certainly a-changing.
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