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- by Tara Maya
Two Other Ebooks Now for Sale
I’ve made my corrections and I’m waiting for them to go through the system. Once they do, I’ll post the link here to buy the book. If you haven’t bought it already, please hold off until then. Should be later today.
In addition to Conmergence, which I’m selling for $2.99, I’ve extracted two of the novelettes to sell separately for 99 cents. Each one is about 12,000 words. I hope people won’t be angry that’s too short. I clearly state the word count in the description, but you know how it is.
I wanted to do this to (A) have some 99 cent items, and (B) have fun with more covers. The cover of Conmergence is more of a mood piece and doesn’t relate to any specific story. But these covers reflect the stories:
The cover art on Tomorrow We Dance is by Natalie Holkham. So the cover for this 99 cents book actually cost me much more than the cover for the anthology proper. I really love it though. Here’s where you can find more work by Natalie:
websites: http://www.coroflot.com/chermilla
http://chermilla.deviantart.com/
- by Tara Maya
Upload Update
The book is showing in the store, but none of the product information is there. In case anyone wishes to buy the ebook, I advise waiting a few more days, if you don’t mind, because there are some changes I do intend to make. One of the things I intend to check is how easy it is to make those changes.
Sales do show up very fast, and I have to admit, that rocks.
Now I have to bust a gut and get the POD ready to go.
Oh, and I have one other version coming too…in order to have a 99 cents offering on the table, I’m going to take just one of the novelettes in the story and offer it alone. I need to write a new introduction and acknowledgements for it. I found a badass picture for the cover and the artist was kind enough to let me purchase the rights to it. This will allow me to compare the effect of cover art and price points on sales. Should be fun.
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UPDTATE TO THE UPDATE:
I feel a little silly for announcing it’s up but then warning people not to buy it yet. Um, sorry! Big Dork Tara. Well, don’t worry about it. There are a few spots where I saw an extra space between lines. I know I am obsessing. But if you find any typos, let me know.
The only possibly significant change is that I have an alternative ending to Tomorrow We Dance. The ending in the 1 edition is fine — I stand by it — but there’s another ending. This is the one I’m going to put out as a novelette for 99 cents. So if you are supercurious to know what the difference is….
For some reason my description still doesn’t show.
- by Tara Maya
Uploaded To Amazon
Well, I uploaded the book to Amazon. It could take “up to 48 hours” to show up in the store, so I don’t know if it will actually be available by Monday. That’s okay. I still have the POD to work on. I just wanted to see what it looks like “live” and make sure I could do the process.
I had a little trouble with my formatting. Some of the fancy internal links I had hoped to provide didn’t show up as links, so I had to remove them. The chapter headings are left-justified instead of centered, and some spacing isn’t showing up right. I don’t know why, but it’s 3:15 am as I write this, so I’ll worry about it later. I think the version that’s up is legible otherwise, with decent paragraph breaks and chapter headings in larger font.