Woo hoo! Yes!

The Shredded Veil Mysteries is available as a paperback!

I’m really excited about this. For some reason, Createspace kept turning around my proofs in 2 days, instead of a week plus. So I was able to go through the process of looking at proofs much faster than usual, which means that, ta dah! The paperback version is available.

I decided not to go through extended distribution with this one, which is why it is less expensive. I may change my mind, which will raise the price from $7.99 to $9.99.

(Extended distribution puts the book on the Ingrams catalog, which means that anyone, anywhere in the world can walk into a bookstore and just order it. They don’t have to special order it.)

Why didn’t I put it through extended distribution?
–Value. It’s only 45k words. It’s a small book. $9.99 seemed a lot for that. But that’s what I would have to charge in order to make a profit from any extended distribution sales.
–It’s a collection. Historically, short story collections just don’t sell that well. We’ll see what happens with this one, and if it starts selling well in paperback I may go back and increase its availability.

I don’t have a lot of paperback sales, quite frankly. But the ones I do get make me wonder. For example, 4 copies of “Paper Mage” ordered at one time to somewhere in the UK. What do you want to bet that’s a bookstore? An individual doesn’t buy 4 copies of the same book at the same time, not generally speaking.

I’ve been updating my covers here and on my web site. I keep thinking I’ll make a general post about that soon as well.

In the meanwhile, I’m recovering, but am far from 100%. Hopefully by the weekend I’ll be back at 100%.