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Finally took the plunge and published my book

For a .99 Kindle download I make 35%. I make like 3.50 per paperback book sold on Amazon. For the first book my focus is on spreading the word more than anything else. Book two will come out in another week or two. I am doing final edits on it right now and then I am just waiting on my cover artist.
 
Edgewriter said:
For a .99 Kindle download I make 35%. I make like 3.50 per paperback book sold on Amazon. For the first book my focus is on spreading the word more than anything else. Book two will come out in another week or two. I am doing final edits on it right now and then I am just waiting on my cover artist.
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I have no idea so I'm just asking here. Is it so wise to release it so soon after the release of book one? My uneducated gut tells me you should give it another few months...uneducated being the operative word here of course.
 
Wes Mantooth said:
I have no idea so I'm just asking here. Is it so wise to release it so soon after the release of book one? My uneducated gut tells me you should give it another few months...uneducated being the operative word here of course.
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If this were the publishing world of old that would be correct. But right now we are in a society where we expect to get our sequels fast. We wait until a season is over and watch the whole thing on dvd so that we don't have to wait week to week. I have been doing some research and learned that many times people see that a book is part one of a series and give it a pass because they don't want to wait around for the second one.

Also with my particular series, book one and two lead right into one another and complete the first major part of the story arc. To generate interest, putting the second book out there right away will give more of an opportunity to get people hooked and they may be more liable to push the books onto their friends.

It also doesn't hurt that I have book three nearly completed so that if I can get the series to take off, I have a book in the bag for a major publisher to grab onto while I finish the rest.
 
I have an issue with the cover for the second book right now.

I hired a lady well over a month ago to design a cover for my book. I was starting to wonder if she was going to do it when she sent me this photo of her progress. I added lettering to it and I think it's pretty impressive and she isn't even finished yet. But she didn't read the relevant chapters and she got several things wrong. The look of the plant golem is good but the event showed didn't happen that way. Our hero on the ground wasn't dressed like that. How should I approach it?

I would ask her to change it but she is working in ink.
Problem I already paid the lady 175.00 several weeks ago.
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I want my brother who did the first book's cover to do the second one and he has agreed to do it. Now I wonder what to do about this other one.
 
If you paid her to produce a cover, ultimately you get to decide when it's done; regardless of the medium she's using. You are the customer, so you shouldn't have to settle.
If your brother is willing to give you another one, take him up on it and pick which one you like better.
 
By the way, I really suggest you modify the title. "Might and Magic" is too reminiscent of the computer games. In fact, it might even be trademarked.
 
She sent me the finished version today. Here is what I came up with:
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I plan to use this as the cover for the Kindle version until my brother finishes his cover. Then I will put out the print edition and change the cover.

Colton, The game was "Might and Magic" I think? This is "The Edge of Might and Magic" and refers to a scene in the book. They don't have a trademark for that. I tried to make sure that the title did not look like theirs. Besides, I came up with the title idea and wrote that scene long before I heard of the computer games.

Do you guys disagree?
 
Edgewriter said:
Colton, The game was "Might and Magic" I think? This is "The Edge of Might and Magic" and refers to a scene in the book. They don't have a trademark for that. I tried to make sure that the title did not look like theirs. Besides, I came up with the title idea and wrote that scene long before I heard of the computer games.
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The games were the "Might and Magic" and "Heroes of Might and Magic" series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Might_and_Magic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_of_Might_and_Magic

When you heard of the computer games would make no difference. I don't know if their probable trademark on the game would affect your book or not, but since computer games involve a fair amount of story-telling I think it's quite possible, which is why I brought it up. I don't know enough of the law to judge, though. (Kicky, are you reading this thread??)

But more than that, the reason I recommended the change was because the phrase "Might and Magic" is going to have certain connotations to millions of prospective readers (such as myself) that undoubtedly do not apply at all. Would be better to avoid that imo.
 
Crap, the more I think of it, the more you are probably right. I need to look at changing the title or I will be pelted by fanboys thinking I am doing it on purpose just to drum up sales.
 
I agonized over it a bit, but I think you guys were right. Changing the title is for the best. I brainstormed with some family and this is the one I like the most. It is one of the titles of our villain in the story.

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That looks really good, I'd try to read it after summer semester. I think its a great choice to change the title (saves you from a headache later on). Best of luck to ya.
 
Edgewriter said:
I agonized over it a bit, but I think you guys were right. Changing the title is for the best. I brainstormed with some family and this is the one I like the most. It is one of the titles of our villain in the story.

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I'm really trying not to be a dick here, but I just thought I'd give you and honest feeling I had while viewing your book cover. It sucks and reminds me of 1992. You could do a lot better. That's just my two cents. Nothing personal and nothing but love.
 
Archie Moses said:
I'm really trying not to be a dick here, but I just thought I'd give you and honest feeling I had while viewing your book cover. It sucks and reminds me of 1992. You could do a lot better. That's just my two cents. Nothing personal and nothing but love.
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That's probably why he is thinking of changing it.
 
I was kind of going for 1992 Tor style font actually. Those were my fantasy reading heydays. Nothing is set in stone yet. Do you guys have any font suggestions you like better? I am open to suggestions.
 
I say its better. Then again, I have the artistic vision of an avocado.
 
It looks a little better but that font style for Bowl of Souls: Book Two really bothers me...it's all curvy...I feel like that part should be in a more standard format and that Messenger of the Dark Prophet should be the part that's more italicized or whatever. I'm not sure that I like that it's off-center too.

But maybe it's just me. I prefer simple and sharp.
 
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