DriveThru Fiction – Jaye Em Edgecliff

Ready or Not pre-orders

Published on 19 July 2014 by JayeLeave a comment

Well, it’s finally done with my editor. A quick proofread by me and some arguing with the various retailers, then the book will be available.

Smashwords and iBooks allow pre-orders, though it is not yet listed with Apple. Smashwords is another story.

I’ll have the first two chapters up for samples sometime in the next couple of days.

The release is scheduled for 26 July. Even if Apple doesn’t get the pre-order set up before then, the book ought to be available for purchase and download by then.

The other retailers: Kobo, DriveThru Fiction, All Romance eBooks, Kindle, and Nook will start showing up on that date as they each complete their own listing processing.

There, of course, will also be a print edition; and most likely a Goodreads give-away for an autographed copy or two.

Love or Lust will be reduced to us$2.99, Ready or Not will be us$3.99 their print editions will remain us$17.99.

Hope you will enjoy it as much as you did book 1. It was certainly a lot of fun to write if not nearly so much fun to edit. Book 3 still has no title, but one will be announced by the end of the year.

Smashwords Adds Daily Sales Reporting for iBooks, Nook, Kobo and OverDrive (the-digital-reader.com)
Smashwords Beta Tests Pre-Order Status of Titles in Retail Outlets (goodereader.com)
Smashwords book sale through the month of July (senaydapierre.com)
2014 Smashwords Survey Reveals New Opportunities for Indie Authors (thestoryreadingapeblog.com)
Someone to Love Series Coming Soon (ipimpmyauthors.wordpress.com)

Sale extention

Published on 1 March 20142 March 2014 by JayeLeave a comment

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Due to all the grief and nightmare getting the book to discount for all of you who prefer Kindle meaning nearly half (or more) of the sale was over before it could be taken advantage of, I’ve decided to bump it another week.

So, until the 9th of March you’ll be able to get Love or Lust for 75% off in ebook.

I’m extending the sale across the board, not just for Kindle. So iBooks, Kobo, Nook, DriveThru Fiction, All Romance eBooks, Smashwords … whatever you like, you’ve got an extra week to get the book for only us$1!

Tell your friends, you enemies, your local radio station, the pope, Ben & Jerry (please inform them, in fact, that — should they wish — I’ll negotiate copies of the book for a pint of ice cream), extraterrestrial abductors, random strangers, and the Easter Bunny about this! Get creative.

Hell … that’s a fun idea! Anyone who actually takes my shameless pleading to heart, and can show me proof of your elabourate and creative endeavour to spread the word … I’ll give you a free copy of the ebook, and one first place winner gets a signed paperback (free ebooks for creative shameless plugging till the end of the month, on 1 April I’ll announce the paperback winner … if anyone decides to play along, that is).

‘Psychs 1st’ a spinoff from the ‘Psychs series’ (ahamin.wordpress.com)
Free eBook for Veteran’s Day (lizmasoner.wordpress.com)
Care and Feeding of Authors & Sale! (leila-gaskin.com)
Get Back into Reading! Booger Bunny and Farty Party will be FREE on Smashwords! (jenniemathisnelson.com)
Easter bunnies! (lynseyslittlethings.wordpress.com)

Pre-ordery goodnes!!

Published on 1 March 2014 by JayeLeave a comment

So I was poking around on Smashwords today and discovered something wonderful! They offer pre-order!

This is outrageously awesome.

Now, a few things to bear in mind: I do not distribute through Smashword’s Premium Catalogue. I go to each marketplace myself. Apple, Kobo (if I recall correctly), and (now) Smashwords allows this. Amazon does not, DriveThru Fiction … I don’t think so, and neither does Nook (unless they’ve changed something, too). All Romance eBooks, I’m still getting the hang of, they may offer pre-order and I’ve bungled right past it so I won’t hazard a guess either way.

Still — for everywhere I can — I will be putting Ready or Not up for pre-order just as soon as I have a date I’m comfortable it’ll be ready for release on.

I’m almost ill with excitement and nervousness. I do so sincerely hope you’ll all enjoy it as much or more than Love or Lust! I’ll warn those who have very strict notions of what a plot is: this is very much more slice of life; it’s better seen as several little plots carrying the thread of a central theme … and I’ve exhausted everything I remember from literature classes (I loved my high school lit teachers, but loathed the subject … in college I loathed both the professor and subject). I’ll ask my editor to give me the literary way of saying what it is sometime later today and tell you more tonight or tomorrow. I’m better at saying what things are about, myself.

P.S. for my fellow WordPressers who still want those neat Zemanta services for related articles, suggested links, suggested tags, etc. There’s a browser plugin for that! Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer (oh God, I nearly typed ‘Exploder’ … I’d rather take a lit class than use IE). Opera is, however, not supported; all other browsers I can think of (Tor, Flock, etc) are modified Firefox, so should be fine to use the one for it.