Monday Morning Mailbag — What happens on book release day …
MONDAY MORNING MAILBAG
Question: What happens on release day/week when you have a new book out? What are some of the behind-the-scenes things that go on?
Answer: Last Strand, Elemental Assassin #19, was released on March 16. Usually, on release day, I spend most of my time sharing buy links for the book, responding to social media comments, answering reader questions, liking/sharing reviews, thanking folks for taking the time to read/review/talk about the book, and much more.
It’s fun, but exhausting. And yes, I will obsessively check my Amazon sales ranking too. LOL.
As for behind-the-scenes stuff, well, I hate to say this, but something always — ALWAYS! — seems to go wrong whenever I have a new book out. For example, a couple of days before Last Strand was released, one of the online booksellers flagged something in the ebook as an error — when it was NOT an error.
Basically, someone, or some program, thought that there needed to be a page break between the end of Last Strand and my author’s note that started right after that. Like I said, something that was not an error. But I had to email my book formatter and figure out the best way to deal with it, which was putting in the page break and re-uploading the ebook/file. Sigh.
Around that same time, I also got an email from an advertiser pointing out a typo in one of my online ads, so I had to contact my graphic artist and ask them to fix the ad. Other things like this pop up all the time during release day/week. And of course, I always see a couple of negative — or even mean/rude/nasty — reviews of the new book, which is always a bummer.
So yeah, release day/week is (mostly) fun, but it’s also not nearly as glamorous as it might seem. LOL.
LAST STRAND EBOOK:
LAST STRAND PRINT BOOK:
Booksellers and librarians can order print copies through IngramSpark.
LAST STRAND AUDIOBOOK COMING AUG. 10:
Last Strand will be released as an audiobook on Aug. 10. It will NOT be out today, March 16, with the ebook/print book. So if you want to read the book right away, then you will have to get the ebook/print book.
Why the audiobook delay? Well, Lauren Fortgang is a very popular narrator, and her schedule is booked up months in advance. I chose to wait for her to become available rather than have someone else voice Gin. I think everyone will agree that Lauren’s narration is worth the wait.
LAST STRAND DESCRIPTION:
I’ve battled a lot of bad guys in my time, both as Gin Blanco and as the notorious assassin the Spider. But I’ve never faced off against anyone quite as powerful and deadly as the dastardly leader of the Circle secret society.
Just when I finally have a lead on how I can defeat the evil group once and for all, new information comes to light that throws me for a loop. Suddenly, everyone and everything I love is in imminent peril of being destroyed, and I’m racing against the clock to figure out a way to save my friends.
The stakes couldn’t be higher, and the danger has never been greater. Somehow, I need to weave one last strand in my web of death—and kill my enemies before they kill me . . .
THE ELEMENTAL ASSASSIN SERIES WILL CONTINUE:
The Elemental Assassin series WILL CONTINUE. However, Last Strand will be the last full-length Gin Blanco book for a while, due to my writing deadlines on other books/projects.
In the meantime, I am planning to write novellas about some of the Elemental Assassin secondary characters, like Lorelei Parker. But rest assured that I am planning to write more books about Gin in the future, as my schedule allows. Thank you for reading. 😎
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