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Trying to get back on the horse

Faerie Blood Second Edition Cover

Y’all will have noticed I have done bugger all with any writing projects for a while. Believe me, I’ve noticed this too. My creativity fell right back into a pit when I got laid off from the Day Job this past September, and I’ve had a bitch of a time trying to haul it back out.

But tonight, I returned to try to edit more of the third edition of Faerie Blood. Edits on Chapter 13 are now complete. Found a bunch more semi-colons and exclamation marks I wanted to remove, and also found one short paragraph that was in fact a bit of a mess and made it past me AND Dara AND all the beta readers. The paragraph as currently stands reads:

“Dazzled by the Sidhe,” Jude replied, “Their most famous human victim,” while she scanned the output flashing by in my command window.

Note the weird placement of commas, which made me go o.O. The revised version of this will read:

“Dazzled by the Sidhe,” Jude replied, while she scanned the output flashing by in my command window. “Their most famous human victim.”

Any and all cheerings on to continue this endeavor would be welcome. Right now I’m struggling HARD to find the wherewithal to do anything writing related. But I’m to a point that I feel like if my unemployment status goes on a while, I’ll need to do more writing to make me less unhappy about the unemployment. Trying to set up a positive feedback loop here.

Bone Walker, Faerie Blood, The Free Court of Seattle

New Faerie Blood and Bone Walker print editions

After working with fellow indie authors in NIWA for a few years now, I’ve decided that it’s stupid that I don’t have print copies of my books available on Amazon (and by extension, a couple other places that carry books published via CreateSpace/KDP). Some time in the next month or so, I’m going to fix this problem. There are going to be new Faerie Blood and Bone Walker print editions!

The particular motivation here: I’m flat out of copies of Faerie Blood, since I sold my last remaining five copies at Norwescon (yay!). I’m down to only five copies left of Bone Walker as well. These will be the last remaining espresso-book-machine copies of that book!

So if anybody wants ’em, this would be a real good time to get ’em. I bumped the price down to $12 at Norwescon after I sold out of Faerie Blood, and will keep that price until they’re gone. Likewise, I have a couple of copies with misprinted covers, and a couple of damaged ones, available for only $5. (The damaged ones were ones I’d signed and mailed out to Kickstarter backers. But they were damaged by the Post Office in transit and came back to me.)

Since I’m doing whole new print editions, I’ll also do a minor edit pass on both books. Notably, I’ll finally correct that typo in Chapter 20 of Faerie Blood in the name of the demon, Azganaroth! But I’ll fix a few other minor typos as well as I find them. Dara will make any adjustments necessary in the PDF and print masters, including the edition numbering in the books’ front matter pages.

Once I finish the edit passes, I’ll deploy the print PDFs up to Amazon. I’ll be able to get author proof copies and vet them before finally releasing the new editions for sale.

The end result? Hopefully, more discoverability and ease of purchase for people who don’t already know me or follow me on social media. Hopefully nicer covers, too! Once I deal with any hiccups in the process, I’ll deploy print books this way moving forward. I’ll be doing Walk the Wards this way as well.

Any questions? Talk to me in the comments!

Bone Walker, Faerie Blood

March 2018 Faerie Blood and Bone Walker sale!

Norwescon is coming, so y’all know what that means: the March 2018 Faerie Blood and Bone Walker sale! Both books are on sale for 99 cents each on all major ebook vendors, as well as on my Square store. I will also honor this price for anyone who wants to buy the books directly from me without going through a vendor.

This price applies until the end of the month, March 31st, to give Norwescon attendees plenty of time to get home from the con and look me up. It’ll also give the rest of you time to read samples, if you don’t already have the books!

The ebooks

As always, this price applies to all major ebook vendors, as well as to my Square store. See the individual Faerie Blood and Bone Walker pages for all the places you can buy the titles.

Or, here is a list of the most important ones:

Faerie Blood:

Amazon | Nook | iBooks | Kobo | Smashwords | Google Play | Square

Bone Walker:

Bone Walker | Nook | iBooks | Kobo | Smashwords | Google Play | Square

The print editions

I’m trying to sell out of my current print editions, as I plan to do a new run of each book. If I have any left after the convention, I’ll waive shipping costs on any order, applicable to anywhere within the U.S. or Canada. (Overseas readers, shipping to you is prohibitively expensive, so I can’t do that. Sorry!)

Please spread the word, and talk to me if you have any questions!

Bone Walker, Faerie Blood, The Free Court of Seattle

Faerie Blood and Bone Walker sale for the holidays!

Faerie Blood Second Edition Cover

Y’all may recall that I had Faerie Blood and Bone Walker on sale during November for Orycon. Well, I’m extending that sale through the holidays!

What

So you can get the ebook editions of these two books for 99 cents each at your favorite ebook vendor. And! If you’re print-inclined, I’m also waiving the shipping costs for the print editions if you’d like to order them directly from me!

This sale will run through the end of December, to give folks plenty of time to get either title for Yule, or even a few days after. If anyone happens to get an ereader and has a hankering to find something to read to put on it. Because I am HELPFUL. ;D

Where

If you aren’t already familiar with the books, you can read samples on the official Faerie Blood and Bone Walker pages. You can click over to your favorite ebook vendor from those links as well, or from the Books2Read links for them, which are:

Faerie Blood on Books2Read

Bone Walker on Books2Read

If you’d like to order the print books, you can do so on my Square store. You can also use the merch pages hosted by Crime and the Forces of Evil on Bandcamp, which are here and here.

If you don’t want to go through a vendor, you can pay me directly via Paypal. I go into more detail about how you can pursue other options on the Buying From Me page. If you have any questions about how you might pay me for either book, contact me!

Any questions?

Talk to me! And do spread the word!

Bone Walker, Faerie Blood, Short Pieces

Hey Smashwords users: coupons for you, all of July!

I’m participating in the site-wite promotion Smashwords is running for the entire month of July, which means that if you’re a user of that site, you can get some of my titles via the coupons they’re running!

With the use of the coupon SSW50, you can get both Faerie Blood and Bone Walker for 50 percent off! Here are the direct links for those two books on Smashwords:

Faerie Blood

Bone Walker

And with the use of the coupon SSW100, you can get my short stories “The Blood of the Land” and “The Disenchanting of Princess Cerridwen” for free! Here are those direct links:

The Blood of the Land

The Disenchanting of Princess Cerridwen

These coupons will be valid until the end of this month, July 31st, and the promotion applies only on Smashwords itself. It does not extend out to the retailers I deploy to through their system.

If you’re a Smashwords user, the coupon codes I mention above are indeed valid site-wide for a great number of titles. There are also codes active for 25 percent off and 75 percent off, for participating titles. You can browse the list of participating titles right over here.

Please spread the word, and if you choose to check out my titles on Smashwords, I hope you enjoy the read!

Bone Walker, Faerie Blood

Post-Orycon inventory update!

I currently have the following things available for direct purchase from me!

Faerie Blood

I have six total print copies of Faerie Blood left in my main stock.

Additionally, I have one extra copy that has a slightly different coloration on the cover, since it’s one of the earliest copies printed and we were still experimenting with the color tones. So it’s a bit paler than the usual copies. Still looks good though so I include this as available at the same price as the usual copies.

Bone Walker

I have 10 total print copies of Bone Walker available.

Additionally, I have two extra copies that have wildly miscolored covers. These were bad copies that came out during the original print run, and Third Place Press just let me keep them. These are available at a significant discount, since they do look very weird. These copies are otherwise fine, though!

I have another copy that has faded a bit on the spine, since it was sitting on the shelf and got some sun on it. So I consider this a cover problem as well, and will make this available at the same discount.

Lastly, I have two damaged copies of Bone Walker. These ones were originally intended for Kickstarter backers, but came back to me damaged in the post. Their covers were damaged, and since they were backer copies, they are signed made out to those backers. These are also available at a steep discount.

Faerie Blood Ebook Bundle CDs

These are the limited run of CDs I burned with an ebook bundle of Faerie Blood in various formats on them. This disc includes both the Drollerie Press edition of the book as well as the current edition. As a bonus, it also includes the short story “The Blood of the Land”.

I actually sold a copy of these at Orycon, go me! I now have eight of these left, and will not be making new ones with this specific set of files.

All of these items are purchasable via my Square store. Additionally, the print copies are available via the Bandcamp merch pages Dara set up for me, which you can find here.

The next convention I will likely have items available will be Conflikt in January, and after that, Norwescon. But if people buy from me before either of these, I’ll be in a position to do fresh print runs of both books.

Questions? Let me know!

Bone Walker, Faerie Blood

Two-week 99 cent sale for Faerie Blood and Bone Walker

Since I am heading to Orycon in Portland this coming weekend, it’s time for another 99 cent sale for Faerie Blood and Bone Walker!

Sale prices will be in effect starting today, Monday November 14th, through Monday November 28th (which, conveniently, is also Cyber Monday).

As soon as price changes take effect on the various retailers, you should be able to see the sale price on all places these two ebooks are sold. For the duration, I have also set all my titles on Smashwords to be ‘Reader Sets Price’, so if you’re a Smashwords user, yes, this means you have an opportunity to snag both of these novels (as well as my two short stories “The Blood of the Land” and “The Disenchanting of Princess Cerridwen”) for free.

As always, the major locations you can buy these books are featured on their pages on my site. See the Faerie Blood page and the Bone Walker page for the Buy buttons at the top, and also the Preview buttons that will let you read samples if you are unfamiliar with my writing in general, or the Free Court series in particular.

Here also are direct links if you want them:

Faerie Blood:

Amazon | Nook | iBooks | Kobo | Smashwords | Google Play | Square

Bone Walker:

Amazon | Nook | iBooks | Kobo | Smashwords | Google Play | Square

Also, if you don’t want to go through any of the vendors where the book is on sale, you may buy the books directly from me via my Paypal account. You can do that on my Paypal.Me link here.

Spread the word!