R.I.P., "Kiss"...
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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?
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Date: 2007-12-02 03:45 pm (UTC)As you said, "Night's Kiss" paved the way for the next books and you've leaned from each experience in publishing. I hope you can interest the publisher for your next book in taking "Night's Kiss" as well - especially if some of the stories are shortlisted for Spectrums and in "Best Of" anthologies. Familiarlity sells.
I've known some people who package their ebooks/stories on their own in a PDF format and have sold them throuhgh thier websites (using PayPal for payments). For print versions - I've always thought that it was rather expensive to print as an "independant". I suppose you could bring print copies on whatever reading/convention you attend as people are more likely to pay money up front for a physical book than to remember to go to a website and buy online a few days later.