Awhile back we got the publishing rights back to our Storm Chaser series of books: Storm Chaser, Storm Chaser Shorts, and The Notorious Ian Grant. Our plan was to independently publish all three.
Sales had been flat, and the publisher that bought the publisher that bought the books (!) left their pricing (in my opinion) too high for a little known author. $3.99 is a great Kindle buy for a Steven King novel, but few people had heard of Mark R. Hunter.
(Many of those who did thought I was the CEO of Molson Coors Brewing Company. I once got a nasty e-mail from someone who didn't like how I was running my baseball team.)
Well, COVID happened, along with a bunch of other unforeseen problems of various kinds, but here it is!
We made a few edits, but basically it's the same story (a little R-rated in a couple of places) at a much lower price: The e-book version is $1.50 instead of $3.99, and the print version $14 instead of $16.99. (Printing costs are killing everyone.) Check it out here:
https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Chaser-Mark-Hunter-ebook/dp/B0C7MB95NH
Storm Chaser is a romantic comedy pairing a Californian disaster photographer with an Indiana State Trooper who hates photographers—and Californians. I have a feeling he’ll come around … but meanwhile, who’s causing emergencies in his home area, just in time for her to photograph them?
There are still old editions of the book wandering around out there, with the same character on the cover. It seemed best to make the new cover different, but not too different.
We did get Storm Chaser Shorts, now titled Storm Squalls, out last year.
It can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Squalls-Mark-R-Hunter-ebook/dp/B09YGJ1XR6, at a lower cost.
I haven't been advertising Storm Squalls because most of the stories take place after the events of Storm Chaser--but now Storm Chaser is officially on the virtual bookshelves, so I can promote the heck out of both in between working on new projects. We're going to get The Notorious Ian Grant back up too, but it might have to wait until autumn.
But wait ... there's more!
Coming Attractions will be FREE on ebook in July, part of the Smashwords July summer/winter sale.
Participating authors can be found here: https://smashwords.com/shelves/promos, starting July 1st, and my account is at https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/ozma914. There you'll also find the two fiction anthologies I have stories in, also at the attractive cost of zero.
More about that later, but I wanted to give everyone a heads up. Now even the dog knows.
He's a little upset I didn't ask his help in editing, though.
By the way, my YA novel The No-Campfire Girls is also in the Storm Chaser universe, as it shares some of the same characters.
http://markrhunter.com/
https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B0058CL6OO
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/"Mark
R Hunter"
If we sell a hundred books by the end of summer, I'll recite one of my humor poems online. If we sell a thousand by the end of summer, I promise I WON'T recite poetry online.
He'd be such a fine editor too.
ReplyDeleteYes, but he tends to slobber on the keyboard.
DeleteTweeted. Congratulations on getting your rights back. I think the cover looks great!
ReplyDeleteThanks! And my cover designer/editor/formatter/everything else thanks you too.
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