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Bookstore Confessions
It was late December. I was in Harvard Square, for some reason (possibly a haircut? I don’t remember) and mulling over an offer from John Joseph Adams to acquire The Spaceship Next Door for his Houghton Mifflin Harcourt imprint. At the time, I was on the fence about the offer. My ebook sales were doing…
Read MoreGoogle Playing Around
I received an interesting email from Amazon last week, which read (in part) as follows: We recently noticed the digital list price for the title(s) listed below is higher than the list price of the same book listed on Amazon.com.au or another website. Unfiction… is listed on Amazon.com.au at AUD 8.07 and at AUD 1.09…
Read MorePerspective From the Other Side
As I write this, I’m two months away from seeing The Spaceship Next Door re-released by HMH/Adams* and available for the first time for a whole lot of people who don’t read ebooks and/or don’t read indie/self-published books, and/or just never heard of me before. The last couple of months has been an education, and things haven’t really…
Read MoreThe Next Logical Step
Here’s the big news: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has acquired the print and ebook rights to The Spaceship Next Door! Their edition, which you can already find available for preorder online, will be released on September 4th, 2018. The current editions will remain available until that time, and since I’m retaining audio rights, there will be…
Read MoreThe Frequency of Aliens: on sale now!
You can now own the ebook edition of The Frequency of Aliens, the long-awaited sequel to The Spaceship Next Door! You will find all of the current purchasing options on the page for the new novel, which is here. Here are some questions I’m going to pretend you have right now, along with some answers.…
Read MoreThe Frequency of Aliens: available for preorder
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about the latest news from the exciting world of novel writing, so my apologies if all of this comes as a shock but: There is a sequel to The Spaceship Next Door! The sequel is called The Frequency of Aliens! This is what the cover looks like! The…
Read MoreKindle Unlimited Is Not Here to Make Friends
I want to talk a little about an Amazon service called Kindle Unlimited, because it’s complicated and interesting, and is increasingly the primary discussion subject among authors (of the indie variety) and not for a lot of really good reasons. Here’s the summary, from the reader’s perspective: Kindle Unlimited (KU) is a subscription plan whereby…
Read MoreRecent Misconceptions
I follow an extremely famous genre fiction author on Tumblr, and a few weeks back this author answered a question from his inbox. It went something like this. Q: I have finished my first novel, had it professionally edited and even commissioned cover art. I haven’t been able to get an agent to represent me…
Read MoreEve in audio
Well, folks, we’re finally here! Immortal Stories: Eve is now available in audiobook, which also means that until I write a new book I have nothing left to convert. A little more than a year ago, when The Spaceship Next Door took off (haha) I decided the first thing I wanted to do was bury some of…
Read MoreThe Immortal Chronicles in Audio
It’s been a longer, slightly stranger trip to this point than anticipated, but: all of The Immortal Chronicles are now in audio format, including the five volume anthology. The decision to do the anthology came first, but I eventually realized there was no reason not to link each individual volume to their ebook editions as well,…
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