My Serial, Arcana, Available for Pre-order!
FINALLY, I have Arcana episode 1 available for pre-order. So there are no surprises, here is how it will go:
I will have pre-order available at Kobo, Google Play, and iBooks (links below). The Pre-order price for the episode is 99 cents. If you wait until it’s live, it’s $2.99. (See Note at the bottom if you want to understand why there is no Amazon pre-order at this time)
DESCRIPTION:
Aurelia Cunningham has ignored her magic too long, and now everything might fall apart. She must choose between being a citizen of one of the controlling magic cities or trying to make it in the wilderness.
The city contains the secret to her magic and answers to a mystery she must untangle to survive. The wilderness has Bast, an old, powerful, and mysterious vampire intent on making her his permanent meal.
Arcana is a serial that follows the Fool’s/Hero’s journey through the major arcana of the Tarot. Readers need not be familiar with the Tarot or the meanings of the cards to appreciate the story, but those who are familiar will find many Tarot Easter eggs hidden throughout the series.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ARCANA
PRE-ORDER LINKS: (All three of these are available internationally. These are the US links)
THE PRE-ORDER EXPLANATION:
I will do a pre-order on Amazon briefly for 3-4 days to just get filtered into also-boughts (Amazon pre-order screws up your algorithms because unlike the other stores they don’t count all your sales on release day and count that toward your rank, they count sales as they happen. And long story short it REALLY screws anybody up at Amazon who isn’t already REALLY BIG as an author.)
There WILL be an opportunity to get a “slightly” reduced price at Amazon during the short pre-order period. It will be $1.99 for those few days there, and then $2.99 after that once it goes fully live there.
So bottom line… it’s cheapest and live earliest everywhere but Amazon. I am not doing this to snub Amazon readers but it’s important to understand that Amazon is REALLY instituting policies that are starting to hurt authors and make authors “so dependent” on this ONE retailer that they are otherwise fucked if they don’t do well at Amazon and I want to build my other outlets and SERIOUSLY encourage shopping at them. I do not want to be Amazon’s serf. I don’t want to be “owned by Amazon”.
Certainly I want to do well at Amazon, but if things go badly at Amazon, I want to still have an income and an audience. That’s just the economics of this. When Amazon stops jerking authors around and trying to force them into Kindle Unlimited and exclusivity, and when they stop making pre-order a type of punishment for anybody not already famous, then we’ll talk about them getting pre-order when the other stores do.
Also, unfortunately there is no pre-order at B&N due to the fact that they don’t allow authors to set up pre-order direct. I’d have to go through a third party distributor and no thanks.
PLEASE NOTE: This is the most important part… I have NOTHING against my readers who shop at Amazon and you are welcome to shop wherever you want, but for many readers Amazon is starting to become like Walmart… you hate it but you’ll go there if you have to. And so I want to encourage other options first THEN Amazon. You can still shop wherever the hell you want. And I’m certainly grateful for any sales I get on Amazon because it still is the retailer I’m most reliant on. I just want to start shifting those eggs across more baskets. It’s what will ultimately be necessary for me to survive this business.
Thank you for understanding!
If you have any questions either about the serial or about the pre-order you are welcome to contact me via my contact form (see the links bar across the top of the site.)
Thanks!
Z
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