Little updates.
The blog is alive. THE BLOG LIVES! Here are a couple of little notes to help avert confusion down the way…
ONE: In the next few weeks, Point Nine Publishing will be re-releasing Sewerville – splitting it into two shorter novels with new cover artwork and some new content, both additional and revised. This is to create a little more symmetry with Sewerville: Book II, which will also be approximately the same length as each of these two “new” editions (and which also, I suppose, will now be Book III). With shifts in technology and human attention span, it seems a little easier to build and keep reading/writing momentum spread over several shorter volumes as opposed to a few lengthier books. I can get more of the story out there faster, and you don’t have to commit as much time to each one. Everybody wins.
These are really intended for potential audiences – those who have yet to discover the story. For those who’ve already bought Sewerville, I can’t honestly suggest you spend more money on a story you’ve already read unless you just dig the new covers. (The new covers, however, will be consistent with future volumes so they all appear of a mind.) The updated content is not really essential to the story, or the future books – just a little fleshing out and cleaning up. However, I would always appreciate any reviews and ratings for the new books on Amazon, Goodreads, Barnes and Noble, etc..
TWO: If you’re so hip you only use e-readers these days, this next tidbit won’t matter to you. I am not that hip, though.
Current paperback editions of both Sewerville and Lost Change and Loose Cousins are getting new matte covers, using the same artwork. Personally, I think it makes a vast, positive difference that will only enhance the existing artwork (particularly the superb David Rogers cover for Sewerville.) Future releases will also be matte finish.
Feel free to share your thoughts. And keep readin’!
JAS
P.S.,
Man of Steel is on disc now in case you missed it in theaters (I do hope you saw it in a theater first). What a movie. Better than all other Superman movies combined and multiplied by a hundred. Also better than most other movies of any kind. Yeah, I get that it’s serious and dramatic and gigantic in scope and action, but tell me again why that is a bad thing? It’s not a bad thing. And here’s some blasphemy for you: Henry Cavill is a better Superman than Christopher Reeve. Actually, way better.
