I’m apparently asleep at the switch today … :/
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Could you get South Coast out before Christmas? (After Full Share.) That might be a way to stir up some intrest in the other books and hook into the post-Christmas ebook surge.
I spent most of last week in the dentist’s chair, and I thought you might appreciate the irony of your voice helping to keep me calm and relaxed! Listening to Captain’s Share while the dentist did his thing really did make the experience less stressful.
I don’t think it’s too likely. We’re at T-10 days, and we’ve got a fair bit of word left just on Full Share. South Coast has to start from the beginning, as it never got the clean-up that accompanied the submission of manuscripts to Ridan that Quarter Share through Double Share got. Therefore, Double Share seems the most likely to be next – and I think it’s iffy if that’s going to make it before Christmas.
On the other hand, with Full Share done, it might be worth doing the bit of extra work to turn it into a three-book omnibus to hit the Christmas Rush, and then picking up South Coast to bring new content ahead of Double Share, and then ahead of new (to e-book format) Captain’s Share and Owner’s Share.
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When you put it that way…! Wow, Christmas has snuck up on me.
A three book omnibus is an interesting idea. How do those work as far as generating extra sales above what the individual books would do?
Omnibus edition is a good way to offer a discount to new readers. A three-volume “Ishmael Wang: Lois McKendrick Years” omni would get a $9.95 price which is “buy two, get one free”
People who’ve put them out say it generates a bit of extra but it’s hard to judge the effect of cannibalization of individual volume sales.
It was mostly just a random thought – it’s been mentioned before, though considered further along in the path. But Christmas is the gift time, and it seems an opportunity to hit people up when friends & family might think that sending someone the omnibus is better than sending just the first book, and the giftee not going beyond that. Still, down the road is likely a better choice, once the three are out and start tailing off.
Hey, Nathan, You need a good old-fashioned file cabinet. Now, it can be furniture or virtual, but you need to have the title of the book and the last version in order so you can just “open the folder and get the file” on the book you want to work on without all this “I have it somewhere” business. You would know exactly where each one is. I would even consider having both a real cabinet and a virtual one. That way you might actually not lose the files. Really, you need an office dedicated to your work. This has been said before, but you really should think about it seriously as you have often said you were fishing for the file to one of your books which was not being found although you knew you had it somewhere. Put in a little time (yeah, I know, that is a joke) on your board for organizing your organization. Hmmmmm. This is getting complicated.
You’re absolutely correct.
This is something that needs to be on my schedule.