Quick update, just in case anyone’s missed me–I’ve been completely immersed in cover art, this time for The Longer the Fall. I’m still working on it, so this post is me woolgathering and has to be short. 🙂
Mortal Touch and Gideon Redoak just appeared in the Kobo catalog. They had Cat the Vamp up but not the other two, which puzzled me until I took a closer look at my Smashwords dashboard and realized that Smashwords shipped Cat the Vamp two weeks before the other titles–why, I have no idea! But they’re all up now, and Krymsin Nocturnes should go to Kobo in the next shipment on April 12. Still waiting for Sony, Mark Coker promises they’ll be shipping this coming week, now that the ISBN issue is settled, or getting there. BLUM’s titles are all ISBNed and ready to go. I have to say, I am not impressed with Sony’s rod-up-the-ass attitude toward small press publishers all along, and if the Sony Reader ends up in the same historical dustbin as the Betamax and the eight-track tape, it will serve them right.
I got a very nice little bit of throw-away feedback about a project I did last year. I don’t know about you, but “perfect” is one of those words that just gives me nice tingly warm fuzzies–especially when it pops into a conversation spontaneously and unasked. 🙂
I wish I could convince Locus magazine not to list BLUM’s books as “print on demand” and available only from the publisher. We’re available in all bookstores through major wholesalers, and I give a whacking retail discount to get them in there! Not to mention that two of our titles so far have been reviewed by Publisher’s Weekly! I’m glad Locus lists the books, but they’re really misrepresenting us and probably doing more harm than good. I suppose I should courteously address this with them, not that I expect that to help. I determined right from the start that I was not going to waste time and energy flinging my body at the ramparts of Traditional Publishing Bigotries, the way I see other small publishers and authors do–not me, I’m a revolutionary, I’m just going around the back way. 🙂 But I still get annoyed sometimes by the self-defeating hidebound attitudes. I’ll just have to take out an ad in Locus. When you can’t beat ’em, pay ’em! Never fails! 🙂
Pending advertising is, indeed, a major reason that I’m putting so much time into cover designs…which I need to get back to. But more on that soon!
I’m getting all twitchy because I want to write, damn it, and I can’t–top priorities right now are graphic design, marketing stuff and editing. *sigh*