Goblin Tales, Coming March 15 (I Hope!)

[jimhines]

I’ve tentatively scheduled Goblin Tales for a March 15 release.  Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be a way for me to set a future publication date via Amazon or B&N.  You click the button to put it on sale, and some time over the next few days, they get it posted.  So it might be more accurate to say the book will be out March 15, give or take

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[jimhines]

There's no hardcopy, no. Sorry. Did I say something that implied there was? I didn't intend to, but I might have misphrased something in the post...

[jimhines]

Ah. Okay, I get it. No, I meant the stories were all reprints. I can edit to clarify that in the post. Thanks!

[jimhines]

Thanks! Right now, I'm expecting it to do better than Goldfish Dreams, but I'm not counting on buying a new car with the Goblin Tales profits or anything like that :-)

I'll buy it

[thesfreader]

Great ! It'll be for me a way to get introduced to the goblins withouthavong to buy a full price 7$ ebook ...

Re: I'll buy it

[jimhines]

I like this plan :-)

Re: I'll buy it

[lynnet]

For readers unfamiliar with the Goblin books, would you recommend starting with Goblin Tales or with the first novel?

Re: I'll buy it

[jimhines]

Good question. Hm ... I'm honestly not sure. I'd probably say neither, and instead send you to www.jimchines.com I've got several goblin stories linked in the left sidebar under "Free Fiction," which would let you check them out without even the $2.99 for the e-book. (The e-book will include those stories and several others.)

Aside from that, I think either would work as an effective Intro to Goblins. So it really comes down to whether you prefer short fiction or novels.

How's that for an unhelpful answer?

[firynze]

Sadly, unless you're JA Konrath, there's no way to do pre-orders on Kindle, nope.

The good news is, it takes almost exactly 12 hours, in my experience, to get a book up on Kindle once you hit submit, so I'd recommend hitting the button at, say, 10am on March 14 - it should go up for sale at some point on March 15, then.

In the future, if you want to try out other ways of making an eBook, may I suggest the Atlantis word processor? As a professional designer, used to using Quark Xpress or InDesign, I never ever thought I'd hear myself say this about a word processor, but...oh my god, I love it. It makes eBooks so damn EASY, and it generates gorgeously clean code that passes ePubCheck and preflight every damn time. It's easier and faster than InDesign, and creates cleaner code, too. I'm in love.

I need to work on my windows for review copies. I'm ATROCIOUS about getting stuff out in advance.

[firynze]

It's really annoying until you figure out how to turn off some of the sound effects, but once you do that, my god, the program is like magic.

[jimhines]

Thank you! I'll check Atlantis out for the next time.

[jimhines]

It's actually very comforting to know people are excited about this, thank you :-)