Bystander


Lycanus

 

Posted

I have to say that I'm pretty much feeling like Oliver Twist asking "please sir, can I have some more" with the way I'm trying to get this and my other titles marketed.

I'm finding out all sorts of things such as:

a) book signings aren't just for established authors, apparently it's a good idea for people to build local attention....setting one up is proving easier than I thought to

b) surprise, apparently marketing my book requires me to get over the whole "I don't want to be a self-promoting twit" thing and actually telling people about the book.

c) large misprint runs suck (correction is made, money still gone)

d) paying Genzoman $300 for cover art results in a wonderfully BEAUTIFUL book

e) apparently, offering to advertise other people's stuff in the back of my book is now common practice...now I have to figure out exactly how to go about that....

f) kindle self-publishing is aggravating given the number of times I was frozen out for 24 hours, but at least more secure than offering pdfs

g) marketing is hard work...

Anyway, I still need to hit my break even point and while I've been talking about my experiences in self-publishing, I think I've forgotten links...

sooooo.....

DA Journal page

And for those wanting more direct links:

Kindle Purchase through Amazon

Print Purchase through Lulu

Prices are currently down at wholesale level to celebrate the release of Bystander, but I'm going to need to rise it back up to retail fairly soon.

and now the back-cover blurb:

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Empaths. Superstrength. Kung Fu Masters. Petting Zoo People.

There is a word for people like that. A pre-packed fluffy-feeling word the government’s spin doctors had come up with.

Peak.

Lucretia had her own words for her peer group: freaks of nature, science projects, and fanatics. They were all the people that had been born, transformed or self-willed into something that should have been bizarre, but was becoming less so.

All she wanted to do was live an unnoticed life in her brownstone, working at the library and chasing down idiot cops who took her books on stakeouts.

Of course, there are problems with that, such as the fact that she's considered an interesting research specimen by some of the more amoral companies. Her tendency to stick her nose in where it probably shouldn't be. A love-hate relationship with various alcoholic beverages.

Oh yes, and the fact that she's still on parole.

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And just because the cover art is sooooo beautiful (seriously, if you have the money, commission GENZOMAN now through deviantart...his country doesn't use paypal, but the art is SOOOOOO worth the extra effort of wiring the funds)


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