NOT HALF-COCKED AND NO KOBO

Yesterday I mentioned that I’d have some information for you about what’s coming up a la new releases, as well as some ideas about e-books and their role in my new publishing venture. For right now, let’s just all agree that when I talk about ebooks I’m talking about Kindle books. With the impending deconstruction of the Nook platform, and the relative obscurity of the Kobo e-reader, (and I’ll eat those words right now if an army of Kobo users inundates me with hate mail in the next 24 hours,) in my mind the Kindle is going to be the go-to e-reader of choice.

Everyone on the same page? Good.

First of all, what’s coming up. In the past when I’ve done these sort of posts I’ve kind of gone off half-cocked and told you about the next nine books I’ve wanted to do at the time. This time we’re going to reel it in a bit and I’ll just tell you about the things that are in active process of being completed.

First up is a novella called Hell and Back. I use the term ‘novella’ with a grain of salt. Officially, a novella as defined as being between 17,500 and 40 thousand words. Hell and Back will come in right around 20k, which almost makes me think of it more as a novelette than a novella. Whatever you want to call it, I’m about seventeen thousand words into it. This one would be tagged as fantasy with some highly horrific elements. I’m looking at a late November release date with both e-book and print editions available.

Next up is the highly anticipated Author’s Preferred Edition of The Feast of Catchville. I’m currently editing the final text for this one, and have scheduled it for an October, 2013 release in both e-book and print. This Author’s Preferred Edition, (or APE) will feature certain edits I’ve always wanted to make to the text since it originally came out, a new introduction by the author, a new cover, and a sample chapter of Swaybuck.

We’ll be releasing Author Preferred Editions of my first seven books in both print and e-book about every three months – so that puts the Swaybuck APE version out about February of 2014. We’ll also offer the three Delving books in a brand new Delving collection – the complete Delving story in one large volume sometime next year.

But once again, I’m getting ahead of myself.

Hey – that was quite a bit of info, and I think we’ll hold off on my thoughts concerning the role of the e-book in the new publishing industry until tomorrow. I like to give you something to look forward to.

In the meantime, if you haven’t watched this David Lynch docu-film yet, it’s totally worth your time.