Reader Question Day #57 – print books, DEMONSOULED, and the number of moons
Manwe asks:
Seriously though, why not just release all your major series in paperback? Why only do a few of each?
Eventually, I would like to have all my major series in paperback – three of DEMONSOULED and three of THE GHOSTS is the minimum goal I’m setting for myself to reach by November and the start of the holiday season. So if I can do more (and I think I’ll be able to, as I’m getting the process down) that would be excellent.
That said, ebooks sell way better than print books, and in the time it takes me to do layout for a single print book, I could probably write about 20,000 words of new fiction, which is almost a third of a short novel. For all that I’ve talked about print books, I’ve so far sold a grand total of one copy. By contrast, GHOST IN THE FORGE sold something like 150 copies in ebook form during its first three days. So simple math dictates that it’s better to spend more time writing new books than turning old books into paper form.
That said, my goal is to have all my books available in all formats, which includes paper. I just have some work to do to get there. 
Ciphas asks:
I don”t like to think that the next book will be the “end of Demonsouled ” I hope Mazael wil have many more adventures.
The next book, SOUL OF SWORDS, will be the last book in the DEMONSOULED series. That said, I do think I will revisit the setting and some of the characters at some point. So while SOUL OF SWORDS will be the last of the DEMONSOULED books, it won’t be the end of the DEMONSOULED world.
Also curious if you can make like a category in this site for “Books” – Books that you are reading right now or you plan to read , books that have an influence in your writing or plain simple books that you like to read.
If you scroll down far enough on the right sidebar, there will be a category for “book reviews” – that will take you to all the book reviews I’ve written since I had this site.
ladysaotome asks, concerning Choose Your Own Adventure:
Old Earth had only one moon?
Andomhaim has nine moons, and their position can cause or change certain magical effects. I don’t think this will be a plot point in Choose Your Own Adventure, but it will definitely come up when I write the first novel in the setting. Especially since the position of the moons potentially makes it much easier to open magical gates to other worlds.
All the humans in Andomhaim came through one of those magical gates – specifically, a magical gate to post-Roman Britain, where the survivors of King Arthur’s realm fled through the gate to get away from the Saxons. (Ironically, there are things in Andomhaim much nastier than the Saxons. ) So in all the books the refugees brought with them – mostly the Bible and various Roman and Greek authors – there would be references to how the Earth had only one moon. At the time of the story, humans have lived in Andomhaim for 1500 years, so for many of them, Old Earth seems almost mythical, which is why the idea of having only one moon instead of nine seems so odd to them.
-JM
