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Hapthorn and Imbry Collections now in Paperback
As I posted here recently, I’m using Amazon’s CreateSpace subsidiary to offer some of my self-published ebooks as print-on-demand paperbacks. The first two titles are the short story collections 9 Tales of Henghis Hapthorn and The Meaning of Luff and Other Stories.
They’re now available from Amazon and directly from CreateSpace’s estore. Through the wizardry of my excellent webmaster, Bradley W. Schenck, if you click on the bookstore tab above and select “paperbacks,” the listed titles will appear. If you then click “add to cart,” you’ll be taken directly to CreateSpace’s estore (they pay me a higher royalty than does Amazon).
Most amazing to me, though, is that recent changes in the book distribution industry mean that you could also walk into any brick-and-mortar bookstore in North America or Europe, order the titles, and they’ll come in just like any other published book. Plus your bookseller will make a little.
I like booksellers. Anything that keeps them in business is all right with me.
Hapthorn and Imbry Paperbacks Coming
As part of my new venture into self-publishing my backlist, I’m taking advantage of the CreateSpace/Amazon connection to turn some of my ebooks into Print-On-Demand paperbacks. Amazing to me, these POD titles will not only be available from online bookstores, but can be ordered by actual brick-and-mortar bookstores in North America and Europe.
The first titles out will be the short story collections 9 Tales of Henghis Hapthorn and The Meaning of Luff and Other Stories, which have been selling pretty well as ebooks. They should be through the production process before the end of May.
Doing the paperbacks has slowed down bringing out the Guth Bandar story collection and one of my trunk books. But I’ll probably get to that after I’ve relocated to Athens at the end of the month.
I, the jury
I’m one of five members of the main jury that will decide who wins the British Fantasy Awards in the categories of fantasy novel, horror novel, novella, short story, collection, anthology, magazine/periodical, comic/graphic novel and screenplay.
The other members are Esther Sherman, Neil Williamson, Pauline Morgan, and Ros Jackson.
I’ll have lots of reading between now and the end of August.
Two new space operas in the Archonate Bookstore
My standalone novel Template, and the short story collection, The Meaning of Luff and Other Stories, are now available at the Archonate bookstore. Each is priced at US$2.99 (£2.02)
Template is already available on Amazon and Kobo. The short story collection will be up on those venues in a few hours.
Template ebook
My standalone space-opera, Template: A Novel of the Archonate, is now available on Amazon. By tomorrow it will be up on Kobo and my own webstore for $2.99.
In a day or so, I’ll follow with The Meaning of Luff and Other Stories, a collection of nine short stories and novellas featuring my corpulent master criminal of Old Earth in its penultimate age.
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