My new children
If I was in the dumps last post, I’m out. I have new children.
A couple of thoughts. I’ve decided I like indie covers, in that they are indie. Why try to eradicate the indieness and pretend we’re Industry? We’re getting away from industry, aren’t we? An indie chooses her or his own covers, with the care and intelligence the creator has. But who wants to look expensive and out of the Publicity Department?
I’m going to steam ahead and issue the two sections of Tribal Brawls, as I have done with The Old Ideal. For one thing, paperbacks are going to be unwieldy and costly, as they stand. I’ll do trade size paperbacks for The Old Ideal and Tribal Brawls, but as an alternative, medium-sized and medium-priced with the four that make up these. I think I was led to this because I want them covers. But it’s easy to do and why on earth not? These new books, by titles, blurbs and covers, I think express us. The next title, for instance, started facetiously but stuck. It might be oddball (as my Tchingis worries he is). Ah, the indie freedom to be oddball.
Publication date, for both on Smashwords, happens to be the 9th of the 9th. Nine is a lucky number for Mongols.