Cassidy Rough Draft Complete
Cassidy is now complete!
Well, the rough draft is. But still, it’s another draft finished. And with a considerably shorter editing process this time around, I expect Cassidy may be released sooner than expected. During my last post, I queried my readers to know if they would want to see the upcoming spin-off book released before the end of the year rather than timed with the release of Veznek. The response was overwhelmingly that I should release it sooner.
I still have some editing to do and I want to have it read by a beta-reader first. But all in all, I think, if my beta doesn’t doddle, I could have it out by December at the latest.
It’s hard for me to say the exact word count of the book because the draft I have is missing two chapters (these missing chapters will be taken from other books and republished in Cassidy). But the draft I have, absent two key chapters (and the longest chapters by far) comes out to 44,715 words, making it considerably the shortest book I have written yet. I expect, once the extra chapters are added in, the word count will be something more like 56,000. Still, that’s short compared to both Iris and Kholvaria.
Right now Iris is priced at $1.49 on Kindle and Kholvaria $2.99 on Kindle. This $2.99 prices seems to be working well, as there have been numerous sales of Kholvaria listed at this price. Tentatively my plan is to release Cassidy at the same price of $2.99. I think this is a price people like and are willing to pay.
To help justify the cost of paying for a full-length book, I plan to also include a free preview to Veznek, the upcoming third book in the Color of Water and Sky series included with a purchase of Cassidy.
No update yet on cover art for the spin-off, but you can be sure I will share details once I have a clear idea of what it’s going to look like. Expect a chapter sample soon.
If you want to read part of Cassidy now, a chapter is already available to the public as part of the Color of Water and Sky Preview Collection. You can find it HERE on Smashwords.com
