I still have a lot of work to do and I need to be offline as much as humanly possible. However, at this point I can steal time to look at email and reply to LJ/Twitter messages.
However, I can’t keep up with my blog reading. Sorry.
In the mean time, please read this: One Town’s War on Gay Teens.
The auction for The Wooden Man and the ghost knife prop has ended but the Worldbuilders fundraiser will continue until February 7th. It’s a lottery system; for every $10 you donate, you get a chance to win any one of hundreds of prizes.
Most are books, signed by the author. Some are ARCs of unreleased novels. Some are graphic novels. Look at this!
An ARC of Neil Gaiman’s Stardust
A “Best of” collection by Caitlin R. Kiernan
A full set of Tad William’s SHADOWMARCH
An ARC of Seanan McGuire’s newest novel
And much, much more stuff.
What’s more 50% of your donations will be matched.
Don’t miss your chance for some terrific books.
Twenty Palaces, the prequel to Child of Fire and the other Twenty Palaces novels has been doing fairly well in online sales, but the numbers are going down, as I expected.
I often have people tell me that the series will become popular once enough people find out about it, but the numbers say otherwise. When I see writers posting about their self-publishing success, the month-by-month numbers always go up. Yeah, I know: December. Also: First month of release of a book with a built-in audience.
Still, January sales are less than half what they were the month before, and they’re slower at the end of the month than the beginning. What’s more, Del Rey still has Child of Fire at the 99 cent price point.
If the series was ever going to take off, it would have happened by now. I’ve decided that is vindication for my decision to move on. We’ll see how the next thing does.