Rachel Alexander's Blog, page 8
January 10, 2022
cheesecakeoveryou:sorry i unpacked all my trauma do you s...
sorry i unpacked all my trauma do you still wanna kiss
January 9, 2022
theia-mania-comics:Queen of the Dead 094
Queen of the Dead 094
January 8, 2022
lesdeuxcygnes:
therkalexander:
Hardbacks…I have been tryi...
Hardbacks…I have been trying to decide which investment I plan to make with the initial take after I publish The Good Counselor.
I am torn between doing Spanish/French/Italian/German/Chinese/Tagalog translations for my books and doing cover and interior designs for hardcovers.
I may do hardcovers first, since I can potentially roll some of the income from that into translation services which will be… expensive.
I have a great service for hardcovers but they won’t be cheap, and like the trade paperbacks I would be drawing the bare minimum in royalties to produce them.
But… if I do, who would want hardcovers of Receiver of Many, Destroyer of Light, and The Good Counselor?
I ABSOLUTELY WOULD BUY HARDBACKS!!! I obviously own the first two as paperbacks already, but I Do Not Care!!! I’m concerned that you wouldn’t be getting paid enough, though.
I’d be getting paid enough, I guess. The paperback price, as I have it set, only nets me about $2 per book in royalties, but when I started out I didn’t know how many copies I was going to sell (its been tens of thousands at this point !!!) was more important to me that I have it out and available than if I made it affordable for people.
Because of inflation, I’m probably going to be forced by production costs to raise the trade paperback price on The Good Counselor to $22.99 from the first two books’ price of $19.99, and there’s a very real chance that I will then have to pull the price on the first two higher.
Since I first started publishing, the goal was to make all the copies of my books affordable, be it the ebook or the paperback. The hardcover I want to do the same with. Even if I am not making as much per book, I want more people to read it.
Ingram offers a lot of choices for a gorgeous hardback, and I think I might have options for hot stamped lettering on jackets (that gold stuff) patterned end papers, and I’d likely include some extras in the hardcover editions (glossary? annotated translations? map of Chthonia?)
I’ve got a lot of ideas. I want to make sure I’m getting paid for them but I also have to make sure that my ideas are feasible and affordable.
Oh speaking of raising funds to get that done, who would be interested in Receiver of Many book merch?
January 6, 2022
Hardbacks…I have been trying to decide which investment I...
I have been trying to decide which investment I plan to make with the initial take after I publish The Good Counselor.
I am torn between doing Spanish/French/Italian/German/Chinese/Tagalog translations for my books and doing cover and interior designs for hardcovers.
I may do hardcovers first, since I can potentially roll some of the income from that into translation services which will be… expensive.
I have a great service for hardcovers but they won’t be cheap, and like the trade paperbacks I would be drawing the bare minimum in royalties to produce them.
But… if I do, who would want hardcovers of Receiver of Many, Destroyer of Light, and The Good Counselor?
Is Despoina an epithet of Persephone or a distinct goddess?
Yes, and also yes, depending on which sources you’re using. The way I use it in my works is as an Arcadian epithet for Persephone.
therkalexander:Ah yes, here comes another social media pl...
Ah yes, here comes another social media platform forced on me by shifting marketing interests to deal another 10 HP of emotional damage…
If you’d like the follow the hot mess that is me on any of them, you can find me at /TheRKAlexander on Insta, Twitter, and TikTok. I hate marketing, so I won’t be doing too much of it at you, but at least you’ll know when the paperback for TGC comes out, which should be any day now
Hello! I was wondering if you’ve ever heard of George O’Connor’s graphic novel series Olympians. Each book centers on the myths about one of the Olympian gods. In Book 4: Hades: Lord of the Dead, he retells Persephone’s story and gives her a lot of agency
I have!
I liked a lot of the info presented in all of them, and the art style was fun. I’ll have to check out the last article.
January 5, 2022
Ah yes, here comes another social media platform forced o...
Ah yes, here comes another social media platform forced on me by shifting marketing interests to deal another 10 HP of emotional damage…
January 4, 2022
I know the gods already tried to do it at least once and failed, but does any myth exist of Zeus successfully being overthrown one day?
Nope.
Remember, Zeus is the Law Giver, the supreme diety of the entire mythos. It’s hard to understand from our perspective exactly how important he was because religious focus shifted from Zeus (Zeus Pater, Jupiter) to the Christian god as the Roman Empire was in decline.
It would be similar to us today wondering if there’s a myth about the Christian god being overthrown at the end of the New Testament. It’s just culturally unthinkable.
