I wanted to take the time to thank all the readers who have been loyally following the book, sending us emails, and posting to our blogs to give us feedback and encouragement. KL, KMRicker, and I are so glad to hear that you’ve enjoyed reading School for Adventurers. =)
To give us more contact with our readers, KL and I have created our basic but lovely RSS feed. We’ve also created a new facebook group called Eastridge Academy: School for Adventurers. Shameless plug: Join our group, if you’re so inclined…and tell your friends too!
For the past month, aside from earnestly trying to stay ahead of the Book 2 updates, KL and I have been working on publishing Book 1. We’ve decided to go the self-publishing route and have been putting the agents of various self-publishing companies to work to impress us with their features, options, and marketing packages.
It’s certainly a learning process, as I’ve never had the experience of self-publishing a book before. There were a lot of factors to think about: what size we wanted our book to be, what we wanted our retail and wholesale prices to be, what our royalties might be, as well as what types of marketing and advertising strategies we needed. I don’t think I’ve ever really given a thought to the sizes and shapes of books before, but after a month of research, I can proudly say that I am able to identify different genres by their book dimensions alone.
KL and I decided to go with BookSurge in the end, mainly because publishing through them makes our book that much more affordable (I didn’t realize that 350-page, *paperback* fantasy novels can get to be as much as $21.00, yikes!). Also, it feels like BookSurge might give us more control of how our book looks, which is important particularly because KMRicker has conceded to give KL and I a pretty book cover if we’re very good. Anyway, if everything goes well, we’ll be able to have a paper copy to sell in a couple months’ time.
In the meantime, KL and I are editing and improving our first book before we send a final draft off to print. We’re tightening the narrative and throwing in new scenes. We’re also typing out more descriptions about the world and characters in an attempt to really round out the SFA universe. By the time Book 1 is given to the publisher, it’ll probably look different than what is on the website now. Hopefully, all the grammatical and continuity errors will be hammered out, our plot pace will be more fluid, and, yes, there will be more scenes of Fell. =)
Anyway, keep reading and telling us what you think!
Best,
“Jae Elle Whye”, or JLY
Joseph P Reed said,
August 26, 2008 at 8:44 pm
I would say that i have read many many Books/ Story’s and novels Im a bit of a writer myself and i must say that your story is awesome the depth of character and story matter is a master piece of work i salute you all
Joseph P Reed
kairos said,
August 28, 2008 at 1:42 pm
YAY! So you are finally printing it. I have some questions. Does this mean that you will take down the postings, or will Book 1 stay on the web? Are you going to try to get Book 2 printed, as well? I am VERY happy that you are getting it printed.
Metroknight said,
August 29, 2008 at 5:43 am
Hi, I love the story. Just finished the last section of book 2 and noticed that beginning around page 14-15 you have some pages flipped around. Just thought you might want to know. I’m going to be putting a weblink in a Rpger’s forum that I’m an moderator for because I think alot of our member’s would like your story.
Luck be with you.
mmog said,
September 1, 2008 at 1:44 pm
Hi,
I’m looking forward to read the first book on paper! It’s great to hear that you are adding more scenes of Fell, look forward to reading them… Will you also add more description of the classes? I’d love to see more of those classes….
Pam said,
September 7, 2008 at 10:39 pm
I’ll be keeping an eye out for a chance to buy this in dead tree format. I do hope there is more Fell, he’s lovely but seemed to disappear halfway through the book only to reappear briefly.
I read the first book in one sitting because I couldn’t put it down in a manner of speaking.
Cal said,
September 22, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Cant wait to pick up the book when it comes out. I recently got into the series, you should make a web store and do some t-shirts as well. The setting would provide plenty of ideas.
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