Only to finally find out that while they do lovely art, half of it's been geared towards light works and children's books. Romantic-comedies. Sci-Fi. Personal improvement and spirituality.
I'm working with one to see what she comes up with for APoS-Derry, at her request. I've sent her links to the BookLife and Kirkus reviews, also the pdf of the template from Ingram, and let her know I don't want sketch-oriented or too busy, so we'll see how it goes.
I don't like people working on spec for me. I've done that as a writer and got taken serious advantage of. So even if I don't go for what she does, I'm paying her something. It's only right.
There's another one who's being more cagey, even though I've told her the same thing as the first illustrator. She might work something up to see what I think...but I'm not pushing.
I've put aside a bit of money for this. Not a lot but enough to cover the three volumes, I think. And I understand Ingram will work them up as a box set, if I want. No decisions made, yet.
I also need to work up a website. Something I can direct people to for all my books and links to buy them. Maybe even buy them through me. Which I could set up with PayPal. I guess.
I'm waiting for the final review to come in from Kirkus before I finalize anything. What I have done is connected all three hardcover volumes to Ingram Direct Sales and priced them each under $20, which is a lot better than $32.50. Cutting out the distributors saves a shitload of money...so long as you're buying them in the US or UK. Anywhere else is through the major online guys.
God, this would have been so much simpler if I'd been able to get a publisher to take them on...
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