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Date Posted: 10:58:05 12/12/11 Mon
>Pre-orders are now being taken for the next
>Spearfish Lake Tales story,
>
>Pulling Even
>
>Randy's friends get to go places and have adventures,
>while he has to stay home and work. His heart is set
>on having some fun and adventure while he's still
>young, but the job is important to his family and to
>him. It's eating up his life to the point where it's
>not even worth trying to plan something fun -- if he
>does something will probably come up to interfere with
>it. His wife feels his anger, and so do some of his
>friends, but there's not much they can do about it . .
>. or is there?
>
>Posting Starts 12/19/11! Preorders shipped
>12/18. Order for as little as $19.99.
>
>See
>href="http://www.spearfishlaketales.com/store.htm">the
>store page for details
>
>
>* * *
>
>
>Lots of Changes at the Spearfish Lake Tales
>Store
>
>There have been a number of changes recently at the
>Spearfish Lake Tales Store, and there are more to come.
>
>Amazon/Kindle sales: Several Spearfish Lake
>Tales books, specifically Dawnwalker, are now
>available in the .mobi/.prc/,azw format at the Kindle
>Store. Andromeda Chained, and Absent Friend should be
>available by December 15. These books are at really
>competitive prices: $4.99 for Dawnwalker and $2.99 for
>Absent Friend and Andromeda Chained. In addition, the
>short story, The Lone Ranger: A Dawnwalker Series
>Prequel will be available there for only 99¢.
>
>In order to present the best possible product, all
>these older books have been re-edited and hundreds of
>fluffs, punctuation errors, and downright boo-boos
>have been fixed. A few scenes here and there have been
>massaged a little. Most of my earlier books were
>posted without benefit of editing -- and it shows!
>That's something my editors and I have been working to
>fix. Dawnwalker received the treatment last year;
>Absent Friend and Andromeda Chained were recently
>finished, and the updated versions have been posted to
>the website in the last few days.
>
>Over the next few months, most of the rest of the list
>will be re-edited, re-posted, and put on the Kindle
>store. Next up, hopefully soon after the first of the
>year, will be Magic Carpet, Alone Together, and
>Rocinante. Others will follow, hopefully at the rate
>of about one to two per month.
>
>Lulu Sales: In addition, I'm not slighting
>Lulu.com. You can still order Spearfish Lake Tales
>books in hardcopy, .pdf and .epub formats. If you
>order them direct you don't have to wait around for me
>to upload them to you. I will replace the existing
>files of the older books there are soon as re-edits
>are complete.
>
>Store Sales: Store sales will continue as
>before. You can order books directly from the
>Spearfish Lake Tales Store, in the traditional .rtf
>format, or an e-book package that contains both the
>.prc/.mobi format for the Kindle, and the .epub format
>for most other readers. Some readers still like the
>.pdf format, so those will also be available from the
>Spearfish Lake Tales Store, but as a separate order,
>not bundled in with the .epub and mobi/prc formats as
>I've done recently. The small (one cent) price
>differential between the three helps me figure out
>what you are ordering.
>
>The store page has been massively rearranged. The old
>page was turning into a real headache to keep
>straight; with the new ordering options and more
>coming it could have turned into a major disaster.
>Now, when you click on a book on the store page, you
>will go to a separate page that gives you all the
>ordering options. This includes taking you right to
>the appropriate Lulu page for Lulu orders -- no more
>searching around on the Lulu storefront page!
>
>All new pricing: In order to have competitive
>pricing on Amazon and Lulu, I decided to cut the
>prices on the books posted there -- but when I did a
>little price study, I realized that made everything
>else a bit out of whack. So, I've cut prices on all
>books in all formats, by as much as 70%!
>
>Price cuts include cuts on the hardcopies from
>Lulu.com. Because of the cost of printing, I couldn't
>cut them as much as I could on the e-books, but it's
>still a substantial savings over the earlier prices.
>
>Other sales outlets: As time goes by, Spearfish Lake
>Tales books will be made available on other e-book
>sales sites. I don't really have a timetable prepared
>for this.
>
>New Covers: If you've scanned down the store
>page or the main book list page recently, you may have
>noticed the covers for the books have changed, some a
>little, some lots. The reasons were many, but it was
>partly to standardize the appearance of the covers,
>admittedly with an eye to online sales. I'm still
>working on the process, and it won't be complete until
>all the hardcopies have been updated.
>
>There are going to be some more changes coming
>-- but probably not as big as these. They'll be
>incremental, rather than a big overhaul.
>
>Five books are planned to start in 2012. I'll
>be starting a new series -- Bullring Days -- in March.
>In June we'll finally get back to Spearfish Lake, with
>a new series of Spearfish Lake stories featuring old
>friends and new; I have nine done, and three more on
>the drawing board. I have enough books completed or
>nearly completed to continue the current posting rate
>up into 2016, and have more in the works.
>
>I'd like to thank everyone for their support over the
>last four years. Writing and posting the Spearfish
>Lake Tales books has been a lot of fun, and I've met a
>lot of interesting people either in person or online
>as a result.
>
>-- Wes
Thank you for posting them, t gives a lot of entertainment for me. I have now got a reader that enjoys them as much as I do. Thanks for writing.
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