Copies of the new trade paperbacks for Flatiron Five Fitness arrived last week and I forgot to show them to you! I really like these new covers from designer Elizabeth Mackey.
They’re available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and the Book Depository. The links are on the individual book pages:
My copies of the new editions of Flatiron Five Tattoo in print are on their way. I’ll show them to you when they arrive.
What do you think?
Until about two years ago, I was creating two editions of each of my paperbacks. One was published through Createspace (an Amazon company) and made available to Amazon stores. The other was published through Ingrams and made available everywhere else. The two editions were the same, except that there were slight differences in the width of the cover spine, probably because the two print-on-demand outlets use different paper for the interior pages. (At one point, I also created editions at Nook of some books for B&N stores, which also have slightly different spine widths, but don’t see enough sales on those editions to justify paying the designer to tweak the spine, so I’ve stopped doing them.)
About two years ago, Amazon began merging Createspace (the POD publishing platform) into KDP (the ebook publishing platform) which made a lot of sense. Many indie books are available in both POD and ebook, and creating both through the same portal, with the same metadata, and reporting sales for both in the same place was a good plan IMO. Also the Createspace interface was older. The KDP interface was being updated, so the print update was rolled into that. Authors could migrate their titles from Createspace to KDP. There were some (inevitable, in such a big transition) hiccups, but ultimately, Createspace was closed to new content.
Since then, I chose to create my print-on-demand editions only at Ingrams, and have them distributed everywhere. Another variable was that I’ve been creating mass market sized paperbacks and during the initial transition, KDP didn’t support this format although Createspace had.
Recently, writer friends have shared that their Ingrams-print edition is showing a delayed delivery on Amazon – of about 60 days. Also, the Ingrams editions aren’t eligible for free shipping through Amazon Prime, which is a big deterrent to Amazon Prime shoppers. So, this week, I added KDP print editions for the books that didn’t have them before, just for the Amazon stores. They’re all going live now, and as they do, the Amazon edition will replace the Ingrams edition on the same link in the Amazon store. (This is because they have the same ISBN.)
So, if you’re an Amazon Prime customer and you’ve been holding off on buying print copies of these titles for your keeper shelf, now’s the time!
I received my print copies of Under the Mistletoe! Aren’t they pretty?
I had to laugh when I added a copy to my bookshelf. My plan with Secret Heart Ink was to write some shorter stories set in the Flatiron Five world, which could be published more quickly. Um. That didn’t work out so well. You can see how the stories kept getting longer by the widths of the spines.
Looks like I need to face the fact that I write longer books. 🙂
The print copies of Bad Case of Loving You arrived last week, but I packed them all up to take to Romancing the Capital without taking a picture to show you. I really like this cover and hope you do, too.
Have a look!
It’s a dingy day here, so the colour isn’t quite as saturated as in real life. That purple looks so rich on the actual books. Just like the other four full-length F5 books, there’s a hardcover edition of this one available, too.
Buy ebook at:
• Amazon.com
• Apple
• Nook
• KOBO
• GooglePlay
• Books2Read Universal Link
Buy trade paperback edition at:
• Amazon.com
• Barnes & Noble
• Indigo
Buy hardcover edition at:
• Amazon.com
• Barnes & Noble
Buy Signed Trade Paperback Copy of Bad Case of Loving You
Buy directly from Deborah and you’ll get a signed trade paperback of Theo and Lyssa’s book – along with some swag. The price includes $10 US for shipping. If that’s too much – or if I’m meeting you at a signing – I’ll refund as appropriate.
$19.99
Buy Signed Trade Paperbacks of the Flatiron Five Series
Buy directly from Deborah to get signed copies of all of the F5 books so far – Simply Irresistible, Addicted to Love, In the Midnight Hour, Some Guys Have All the Luck, Going to the Chapel and Bad Case of Loving You – along with some swag. The price is in $US and includes $25 US for shipping from Canada. If this is too much, I’ll refund the difference to you.
$79.99
I’ve made some changes to the distribution details of my print editions from Ingrams, which means that you’ll see better prices at your portal of choice than has been the case to date.
I publish print editions directly through Amazon for Amazon of most titles, and to date, those have had the best prices. l publish print editions for everywhere else from Ingrams. They’ve been priced slightly higher, but these changes will make the prices the same in most cases as the Amazon-direct prices.
As an example, many of my trade paperbacks were $9.99 US on the Amazon direct version but $14.99 US if distributed by Ingrams. In most cases, they’re now $9.99 US from Ingrams, too. I have uploaded some print titles directly to Nook as well – Dragonfire, Flatiron Five, the Champions of St. Euphemia and the True Love Brides – which have similar pricing to the Amazon editions. All the other series come to B&N from Ingrams, and they will all do so in future.
Similarly, the hardcover editions which come from Ingrams – Dragonfire and new ones for Flatiron Five – have dropped in price from $32.99 US or so to $24.99 US or so. The prices vary slightly from book to book – because the length of the book determines the production cost – but you’ll see an improvement.
The new prices were effective yesterday, so they should be live at your portal of choice now.
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