More Crass Commercialism · 10:20pm Oct 18th, 2014
I mentioned that I'd decided to take the self-publishing plunge by putting the rewritten, expanded, and completely deponified version of Half the Day is Night up for sale as a Kindle ebook. Thanks, all of you, who bought a copy!
This is the cover
For myself, though, I'm still very much a creature of paper and ink, so I've spent the last six or seven weeks slapping things around over at Createspace to put together an actual print version. And it's finally ready to be released into the wild.
You can pick up a copy either directly from Createspace or from Amazon since, y'know, Amazon owns Createspace and all.
The book sports the same lovely cover image courtesy of Marilyn Scott-Waters, but it also features four gorgeous black-and-white illustrations of the main characters done by one of my all-time favorite artists, Roz Gibson. The sketch here'll give you an idea.
Astrid and Flaxen here might possibly remind readers of a couple earth ponies with whom we're all familiar
I'm really happy with how it turned out, but if you spot any typos, please let me know! My dad caught a couple when he read the first proof a few weeks ago, but I think those were the last ones.
And, yes, I know: in Norman Spinrad's quote on the back where he says that my stuff is "the sort of thing for which the word 'sui generis' was invented," technically 'sui generis' is a phrase rather than a word. But, I mean, it's Norman Spinrad! What am I s'pposed to do??
Mike
I need to get myself a copy of this, and read the fanfic and the non-fanfic back to back. :D
Edit: I dunno if you have any control over the Amazon description, but it's got the phrase "she discoveries that". :B
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Hmmm:
I oughtta be able to get in there and fix there. Typos! I tell ya: they're ev'rywhere!
Mike
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Turns out:
It was just a really convoluted relative clause. I split it into two sentences, and all is now well.
As for a compare/contrast, the non-pony version has 50 pages at the beginning that the pony version doesn't in order to set everything up. So there's that...
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Yeah, that kind of thing is what I'm interested in. Also, having a paperback of something written by someone I know. <.< This will require monies.
Yeah, I know what I'm picking up next paycheck! Way to go, Augs!
Oh, this is great. I'm pretty reticent to spend actual money on ebooks--they just don't feel "real" to me, and if you're doing it through amazon then there's the whole question of what you're actually buying on top of that--but a physical copy sounds like something I need.
A question: does it make any difference to you, in the sense of how much money you personally make off each sale, whether I buy from Createspace or Amazon? It looks like I can save a few cents by buying from Amazon, but the difference is so small that, if any of that comes out of your pocket, I'd rather not.
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Thanks, folks!
I get a better percentage through Createspace, too, so it comes to just over six bucks headed my way when someone buys it on their site as opposed to just over $3 per sale at Amazon. But however folks wanna pick the story up is OK by me!
My next project on both paper and Kindle will be the entire 50,000 word novel that grew from "Thoughts on Early Spring," the story I had in the Kazka Press Bronies anthology--yeesh, how can that have been 2 1/2 years ago?? Neighbors it's called, and the tagline is: "You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your neighbors." That one might even be ready by the first of November--I'll let folks know about it when it is.
Mike