Hi Rachel! Huge fan and i cant wait until the new book comes out. I was just wondering how much the book will be on amazon kindle? Pre-order or regular. I need to budget myself rn but im definitely want to get it asap. Thank you so much!

Yay thank you!!

For The Good Counselor, I plan to make the ebook US$6.99 and the trade paperback US$19.99, if they will still let me price the books that way. I am keeping the book to under 125K words so it will fit in 500 pages or less like I did the first two books.

So in the US the ebook is about the price of a fancy latte. The trade paperback is the cost of a modest brunch omelette plus tax and tip.

It’s highly likely that I’ll still be allowed to price it that low.

Because here’s the reality for me:

There’s a minimum price set by the printer, and I usually put the paperback at the lowest allowable point at which I can still draw royalties internationally. As it stands, if an international TPB purchase is made, I make anywhere between $1 and $3 on it. This price cannot be differentiated from the US pricing unless I make it a different edition with a different ISBN. And only the big publishing houses do stuff like that, frankly.

I offer my books at the lower limit because I know that people want physical copies of my books and getting my book out to people with a traceable fucking ISBN number on it because absolutely fucking no one will know how many people read my books if they’re all pirated, you guys is more important to me that raking in a huge per-unit profit.

TL;DR:

$6.99 ebook$19.99 paperback*international pricing kinda sucksand piracy sucks harder