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Dec. 1st, 2007
R.I.P., "Kiss"...
Dec. 1st, 2007 04:51 pmat least for the moment
My first book, "Night's Kiss" is apparently officially out of print. I found this out by Googling, incidentally, not from the publisher, hence the "apparently." "Kiss" consisted of 15 stories, including most of my published vampire oeuvre and most of my early lesbian erotica. Many of the stories had appeared in "Best Lesbian Erotica" and sundry other collections. 3 stories made it into subsequent Year's Best anthos, including "Viva Las Vegas" in "Best New Erotica 6," "Planet 10" in "Best Lesbian Erotica 2006" and "Cowgirls and Science" in "Ultimate Lesbian Erotica 2006." It's still up for the as yet undecided 2007 Spectrum Awards - 3 stories in the short fiction category and the entire collection in "Other."
Not bad for a book about less than 100 people ever read, near as I can tell.
"Kiss" was my learning book. I had no idea how to promote an ebook (and am not sure I know that much now) and got very little support from my publisher. Between the two of us, we couldn't figure out how to get the word out to people who might actually read lesbian erotica. I managed to get it in the hands of a couple of reviewers (thank you, Jean Roberta!), did a few chats, handed out postcards. I took out a few ads at my own expense. None of this worked half as well as having a print collection out this year. Guess I'm better at selling things live than online.
On the bright side, promoting "Kiss" paved the way for "Crave" which in turn is paving the way for "Haunted Hearths." "Crave" is outselling "Kiss" and hopefully "HH" outsells "Crave" and each one builds on the previous one.
Still something of a bittersweet moment.
At any rate, I'm kicking around the idea of releasing a print version of "Kiss" myself if I can't get anyone interested in it. But it would be nice to know if there was any interest out there in such a thing. Thoughts?
My first book, "Night's Kiss" is apparently officially out of print. I found this out by Googling, incidentally, not from the publisher, hence the "apparently." "Kiss" consisted of 15 stories, including most of my published vampire oeuvre and most of my early lesbian erotica. Many of the stories had appeared in "Best Lesbian Erotica" and sundry other collections. 3 stories made it into subsequent Year's Best anthos, including "Viva Las Vegas" in "Best New Erotica 6," "Planet 10" in "Best Lesbian Erotica 2006" and "Cowgirls and Science" in "Ultimate Lesbian Erotica 2006." It's still up for the as yet undecided 2007 Spectrum Awards - 3 stories in the short fiction category and the entire collection in "Other."
Not bad for a book about less than 100 people ever read, near as I can tell.
"Kiss" was my learning book. I had no idea how to promote an ebook (and am not sure I know that much now) and got very little support from my publisher. Between the two of us, we couldn't figure out how to get the word out to people who might actually read lesbian erotica. I managed to get it in the hands of a couple of reviewers (thank you, Jean Roberta!), did a few chats, handed out postcards. I took out a few ads at my own expense. None of this worked half as well as having a print collection out this year. Guess I'm better at selling things live than online.
On the bright side, promoting "Kiss" paved the way for "Crave" which in turn is paving the way for "Haunted Hearths." "Crave" is outselling "Kiss" and hopefully "HH" outsells "Crave" and each one builds on the previous one.
Still something of a bittersweet moment.
At any rate, I'm kicking around the idea of releasing a print version of "Kiss" myself if I can't get anyone interested in it. But it would be nice to know if there was any interest out there in such a thing. Thoughts?