Big Boob...

Hi Guys,

Just thought I'd share a big boob I made...

Well, you know I changed the cover of The Tessellation Saga and spent many an evening huddled under a blanket with my cocoa and  (cocoa, did I say cocoa...  rather more Gin and Tonic tasting cocoa! lol) laptop, attempting to make one rather long (231.000 words to be precise) into two books???  I succeeded and published both on Smashwords for free!  So very pleased with the new covers...

This one for Prophecy's Heir.

               This one for the second part, I called it 'The One'

I proceeded to sit back and watch the downloads, gratifyingly within a few days Tess 1, Prophecy's Heir had 168 downloads and Tess 2, The One had 68, Tess 2's downloads were all within 24 hours of my publishing it.  Big Smiles....

Until...

I thought that with such a different cover I'd try the change on Amazon, where the two books were available as one volume.  On checking I realised Tess 1 was tied into an exclusive thing, KDP Select, with Amazon... so by publishing on Smashwords I had violated the select thingy...   :(

I quickly suspended the downloads from Smashwords and emailed an apology and also emailed Amazon to explain what I had done.  I needn't have worried as both the Smashwords people and Amazon were great about it, so my grateful thanks go to both of the companies, but a word to the wise... check the contracts you have before trying something else! A bit of gobbledegook, but you know what I mean. Amazon was very good to me here.  I love seeing my books on Amazon and I also love the Smashwords site.  The Smashwords Style Guide, by Mark Coker, which is available free from Smashwords is a really great tool and enabled me to format my stuff quickly and easily.  (Tess 1 being soooo long, leaves quickly as a relative term... lol)

Anyhoo, the two reformatted books will once again be available for download from Smashwords on 26th October, in a couple of weeks in fact, meanwhile both books are now available on Amazon on all their various sites.

A quick note, I did put a warning onto Facebook about not buying, 'the One' if  you purchased the long version of The Tessellation Saga, in its original cover.

  DO NOT DO IT 

You will be disappointed to find you have already read it. For you guys the next volume in the series will be called 'MeGath' and its coming soon...

What's that noise?
Duh... its London Heathrow calling...

See yer next time...

Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

:)

Cover Changes

Hi Guys

Do you ever get into one of those situations where time runs away with you and before you know it its next week. Anyhoo...

I've spent the last few weeks re-editing Prophecy's Heir for Smashwords, yet another digital publisher.  It was really quite tough too as I had to totally re-format the book from scratch.  Also after taking advice from a number of friends I've had to make Prophecy's Heir into two books. So both come out as a more manageable 125,000 instead of the whopping 230,000 ish words.  I also changed the cover to a more exciting one, full of flame and mystery.  (never did much like the old cover)  The original version of Prophecy's Heir is still on sale at Amazon with its old cover.  I mention it because I would hate for folk to buy the Smashwords versions of 'Prophecy's Heir' book 1, and 'The One' book 2, when together they make up the entire first book thats available on Amazon!



So... what do you think of the new cover?  I created it on gimp with a lot of help from youtube, with Aubrey Watt and it took me an absolute age.  Well, a long morning anyway!  I just love it.  Compare it to the amazon cover on the right. Up there outside of the writing pane!

Book 2, 'The One' has a very similar themed cover although I've not finished re-formatting the book for Smashwords yet. I'll publish it just as soon as I'm done and let you know. Book 3 will still be called 'MeGath' but I've not even begun to think that far ahead... (don't think my knees would hold out for the mammoth sit! Anyone have any idea how to ease the strain?)


This is the cover I've designed for book 2, what do you think?  As I said you can see I've kept the same fiery theme with the deep black representing the Void. I changed the font to bold too as I think possibly there's more impact. I just love the vibrancy and the dramatic colour changes.

Gotta go mundane life is calling...

Thanks for the emails and tweets...

Till next time then, byeeeeeeeeeeeeee

:)