May field report and update
May closes with me catching a case of brain drain right as I finished another novel, this time a three-way romance novel of 106K. No telling when I’ll fit it into the schedule for edits and publishing, but now that it’s done, I’m taking a short break from writing anything new. I’ve been cranking out words since before the start of the year, and now I need to step back and see what I want to work on next. Or I will as soon as my brain reboots and I can dress and feed myself more reliably. Brain drain is so much fun, yo.
I’m close to finishing another series if I can write the last Zombie Era novella after my vacation, and I’ve decided to release the final three novellas in a single volume. This is more because I only need to come up with one cover, but as the stories are all related, it may be easier to sell them as a single three story block. I hope.
It’s only a few days until the release of the fourth and final Peter the Wolf book, Thicker Than Blood, although the folks who contributed to the Indiegogo campaign should already have copies. At the same time that I publish the last book, I’ll also be releasing an omnibus edition of all four novels in one huge edition. These will go out on my blog bookstore, Amazon, and Kobo, but for readers who want the files separately, my blog bookstore also has a four book zip file which has mobi, epub, lit, and PDF files, all DRM-free so you can use them on whatever reader or tablet you prefer.
July will see the release of Fangs, Humans, and Other Perils of Night Life, and I wish I could say I knew what was taking the August spot, but I don’t yet. I do know there will be a book. I just don’t know which will be ready by then.
May was the last month I was taking a promotion vacation, and it was also the slowest month I’ve had all year, with only 8 sales total on Amazon, and no sales on my other vendors. I didn’t advertise, so that’s a large part of it. I have to be grateful I got the sales I did, and there were thankfully no refunds requested this month. So thanks very much to the people who bought books in May.
I do have one final favor to tack on for readers who’ve gone through the whole Peter the Wolf series. After you finish Thicker Than Blood, I would appreciate it if you would consider making a review of the last book, or of the series as a whole. Now that the series is done, people will wonder if it’s worth the investment of time in four books, so reviews might help convert some curious new readers.
Speaking of reviews, J.L. Forrest reviewed The Life and Death of a Sex Doll. This is a second recent positive review for the two-novella sci-fi ebook, and I’m grateful to both reviewers for checking it out.
I’m reading other peoples’ stuff during this vacation, so you can probably expect more book reviews soon. I was going to hold off on Silence for a few more books, but damn that cliffhanger ending in Crescendo suckered me into book 3, and I’m reading it almost as fast. I might just go ahead and whip through book 4, Finale, since it’s sitting there on my shelf too, and I can see the appeal of having a complete series all together. If it’s really good, I can read all of them back to back. If only my budget would allow me to buy more books. *Le sigh*
Or more than I already buy, as I have an order in with Amazon for Forever, the last book in Maggie Stiefvater’s Wolves of Mercy Falls series, Insurgent, book 2 of Veronica Roth’s Divergent series, and Kiss of Life, book 2 in Daniel Waters’ Generation Dead series. Definitely on a reading kick for episodic books. Standalone books are still good, but I like the stories that make me say at the end, “Okay, but what happens next?” Even better, sometime the series go in directions I wasn’t expecting, or they answer questions I still had left over in the first book.
Anywho, that was May in a nutshell. Thanks for the sales, and for reading the blog.
