I got the pdf proof of The Alice '65 and it looks good, so I have a hardcover proof coming, rush. If it looks okay, the book will be available in hardback as of Wednesday, the 4th. Hard to believe this long road is near its end and a new one about to start up, again...wait, the one for Place of Safety isn't new, it's old. Way old. But it's the next fork in the path, so...
Anyway, tonight was spent updating the copyright on the story and on various sites where I want to show the book off. Book Daily and Book Life, for example, as well as my website...tho' I'll need to re-update that when the hardcover is up and running on Amazon. I probably won't hear back from Publisher's Weekly for another 6-8 weeks on whether or not they will review it, but Book Life's review is great, for now.
Still undecided on the paperback. Amazon is back to its bitchy phase so I'm not so sure I want to deal with them more than necessary, and they are Create Space. They've begun reassigning books with sexual content to a different category from erotica and making access to them even more difficult. How To Rape A Straight Guy, Porno Manifesto and Rape in Holding Cell 6 are now, officially, not ranked in sales, and when I contacted them about it I got blown off by Kindle saying everything was fine. I don't offer those three in Kindle, just paperback through Ingram, so I have no idea why they're the ones responding to me.
It's just more two-faced bullshit from that company. Soon as I'm contracturally able to offer A65 through Smashwords, I'm gonna. So I guess I'll offer the paperback through Ingram, too, which makes it available to Barnes & Noble, as well. Just makes me feel better, not being beholden to a company that's so fucking immature.
Like most, these days.
Anyway, tonight was spent updating the copyright on the story and on various sites where I want to show the book off. Book Daily and Book Life, for example, as well as my website...tho' I'll need to re-update that when the hardcover is up and running on Amazon. I probably won't hear back from Publisher's Weekly for another 6-8 weeks on whether or not they will review it, but Book Life's review is great, for now.
Still undecided on the paperback. Amazon is back to its bitchy phase so I'm not so sure I want to deal with them more than necessary, and they are Create Space. They've begun reassigning books with sexual content to a different category from erotica and making access to them even more difficult. How To Rape A Straight Guy, Porno Manifesto and Rape in Holding Cell 6 are now, officially, not ranked in sales, and when I contacted them about it I got blown off by Kindle saying everything was fine. I don't offer those three in Kindle, just paperback through Ingram, so I have no idea why they're the ones responding to me.
It's just more two-faced bullshit from that company. Soon as I'm contracturally able to offer A65 through Smashwords, I'm gonna. So I guess I'll offer the paperback through Ingram, too, which makes it available to Barnes & Noble, as well. Just makes me feel better, not being beholden to a company that's so fucking immature.
Like most, these days.
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