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Finally took the plunge and published my book

My book has been updated and is now available in print on Create Space. The print version will show up on Amazon as well in the next few days!

https://www.createspace.com/3917143

It is all really exciting. The Kindle version price will not change though.

My own copies won't arrive until next Tuesday. I can't wait to open that box and pull out that book!

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Enbiggen the photo to see the full image. Just had the cover finalized a few days ago.
 
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.
 
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