Paperbacks
It’s fair to say that sales of Summer’s Dark Waters have so far exceeded expectations to the extent that I find it difficult to remember exactly what my expectations were (so how do I know they’ve been exceeded? but moving on...)
Seriously though, the launch has gone well so far and the principal driver for this has been, believe it or not, sales of signed paperbacks.
This in turn led me to wonder if such a level of interest in the dead-tree form of a story was down to (a) the fact that the books would have a scribble from me in them, or (b) the illustrations, which *definitely* look even better in a proper book, or (c) some other reason I haven’t fathomed yet.
One thing I’ll definitely be looking to do again is collaborating with artist Ankolie Noire (and you can take that as an unsubtle hint regarding a sequel). When you’re fans of each other’s work already, collaboration seems much easier. It just somehow works.
Every book sold, whether it’s paperback or Kindle, from myself or from the publisher, means more money for TACT, the sponsored charity. But I’m particularly pleased about the paperbacks. I can’t help but feel that a book on a Kindle doesn’t really exist except as some esoteric code, whereas something that can be held and experienced in a way that’s been consistent over thousands of years has something timeless (obviously) and, more importantly, eternal about it. Which is odd, given that physical matter is here today and gone tomorrow in a universal sense whereas the information we stream out onto the Internet will be harvested, analysed, documented and archived for as long as technology itself persists- which may well be long after humans themselves are long extinct.
Quite how I got from sales of a new book to the end of humanity I’m not sure, but it may be for the same reason I can come out of a stupor and find that I’ve written an entire page of something.
Anyway, my thanks to all those who have supported the whole project in one way or another. For the curious, there’s a link to part of the first chapter here: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/6802512-intro-to-summer-s-dark-waters
Summer’s Dark Waters is on Amazon (Kindle) and on CompletelyNovel (paperback) and I’m also selling signed copies myself. I’d be secreting it through my very pores if I could, but that’s one version you probably don’t want to be thumbing through.
Seriously though, the launch has gone well so far and the principal driver for this has been, believe it or not, sales of signed paperbacks.
This in turn led me to wonder if such a level of interest in the dead-tree form of a story was down to (a) the fact that the books would have a scribble from me in them, or (b) the illustrations, which *definitely* look even better in a proper book, or (c) some other reason I haven’t fathomed yet.
One thing I’ll definitely be looking to do again is collaborating with artist Ankolie Noire (and you can take that as an unsubtle hint regarding a sequel). When you’re fans of each other’s work already, collaboration seems much easier. It just somehow works.
Every book sold, whether it’s paperback or Kindle, from myself or from the publisher, means more money for TACT, the sponsored charity. But I’m particularly pleased about the paperbacks. I can’t help but feel that a book on a Kindle doesn’t really exist except as some esoteric code, whereas something that can be held and experienced in a way that’s been consistent over thousands of years has something timeless (obviously) and, more importantly, eternal about it. Which is odd, given that physical matter is here today and gone tomorrow in a universal sense whereas the information we stream out onto the Internet will be harvested, analysed, documented and archived for as long as technology itself persists- which may well be long after humans themselves are long extinct.
Quite how I got from sales of a new book to the end of humanity I’m not sure, but it may be for the same reason I can come out of a stupor and find that I’ve written an entire page of something.
Anyway, my thanks to all those who have supported the whole project in one way or another. For the curious, there’s a link to part of the first chapter here: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/6802512-intro-to-summer-s-dark-waters
Summer’s Dark Waters is on Amazon (Kindle) and on CompletelyNovel (paperback) and I’m also selling signed copies myself. I’d be secreting it through my very pores if I could, but that’s one version you probably don’t want to be thumbing through.
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