I’m so excited that everything worked out. The books look amazing and it is great being able to hold them in your hands instead of reading it on a laptop screen. I love the covers and the interior layout design – they did a great job over at CreateSpace. The books are available only through Amazon right now. I would have used more distribution channels, but it would have meant marking up the cover price a ton, and I didn’t want to do that.
Links to the books are here:
Wretched: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1456399489
Blight: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1456406272
Scourge: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1456406353
There will be Kindle versions for the books (soon) and I’m working to get it on the iPad bookstore as well (fingers crossed). I do not plan on doing much marketing, if any, so please pass this news along to anyone who might enjoy a new YA fantasy series without having to wait for all the books to be finished.
As an aside: it was cute to hear my daughter yesterday. She saw a copy of Wretched in the classroom next door and learned that one of her friends was reading it. Pretty cool!
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The books look great! Had you considered using Lightning Source instead of CreateSpace? You can set your discount as low as 20% and still get into the Ingram database, so bookstores and online retailers can order your books without having to give up 55% or 60% or marking up the price unreasonably. (CreateSpace uses LSI for it’s expanded distribution option, so you might as well go straight to the source.) LSI is just a printer, so it doesn’t do any design, you have to have your own ISBNs, and there is a set-up fee, but the per book printing costs are slightly less than CS.