Welcome to a brand new month. A month when some people like to start doing certain things outdoors…
…by which, I mean taking books and reading them outside, of course! Yes, outdoor reading season is officially1 upon us! Grab a book or two or ten and take them with you to the park! Or the beach! Or in a peaceful woodland clearing next to a gentle mountain stream under a canopy of verdant, green leaves.
Say, that last visual reminds me of something…
Okay, got the self-plug out of the way, so let’s plug some other writers! Like, for example, my amazingly awesome and talented spouse has a book as part of a collection of bundles on Itch.io in support of Mental Health Awareness Month. Please check out this and the other bundles if you like new reads and mental health representation.
#IndieApril has come and gone and it was a mixed bag for me sales-wise. Like I said in my last post, I did manage to sell one more book than last month (that’s good), but none outside the US promotion (that’s… well, not bad, but disappointing.)
I know that it takes a while for any book to find an audience and I was prepared for things to go slowly. However, it is hard not to feel like I released this book at the absolute worse time for a Kindle exclusive. Between the general Amazon backlash and boycott and the mother-lovin’ ChatGPT Ghibli GenA.I.”Art” nonsense making everyone look any art done in the Ghibi style as sus (Including my cover, and I have had to tell one person so far that no, it wasn’t generated using GenA.I.), I’m beginning to wonder how many more shoes can drop.
In any case, I wasn’t planning to stay exclusive on Amazon forever. It was always my plan to ease myself into the self-publishing ecosystem, but the way sales have been for every indie writer these last couple months, I might be accelerating my plans to go wide. I will probably stay enrolled in KDP select for at least one or two more cycles (So, hey if you were thinking of reading Tales of a Stranger Sister on KindleUnlimited, maybe get on that sooner rather than later), but I might start looking seriously at releasing the print edition wide. It’s times like these I’m glad I have a self-publishing guru.
Moving on…
More website content will be coming soon. Working on some write-ups about the history of Tales of a Stranger Sister and the people, places, and things that inspired its inception. Still working on the next novel. About four chapters down, who knows how many more to go.
So, that brings this update to a close, but before I go, the month of May officially2 marks 30 years since my favorite anime of all time (and one of my many writing inspirations) was released. Unfortunately, being one of the old Pioneer-produced anime of the 90’s, the license has fallen into many cracks and I don’t think the original 7-part OVA is streaming anywhere, but if you get a chance to see it on either DVD, Blu-ray or through… other means, please take it. It’s a wonderful story full of amazingly fun characters.
So, with grass below you and sky above, get out there and celebrates spring with a crazy little thing called… “reading outside.”
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