Kitemaster Collection Coming August 15ish
Kitemaster & Other Stories will go on sale around August 15. (I’d love to set a firm date, but some of it depends on how long B&N and Amazon and the rest take to update their systems.) The lineup includes the following stories:
- Kitemaster
- Untrained Melody
- Blade of the Bunny
- Over the Hill
- Spell of the Sparrow
- The Creature in Your Neighborhood
The price will be $3.99, which comes to 66 cents per story. As a special bonus, the collection will also include a sneak peek at the first chapter of Libriomancer.
I’ve seen mixed data as to whether it’s more effective to sell individual short stories vs. bundled collections like this, but you know what? It’s enough work putting together a good e-book collection. I don’t have time to prepare six different covers, get six different files uploaded to various sites, and of course, to update those files on the different sites when and if something should change.
Reviewers wanted: I’d like to send out about some review copies, and hopefully get some reviews posted next month. If you have a review site or a blog with a decent sized following and you’re interested in reviewing Kitemaster et al., please leave a comment. I can’t promise free books for everyone (I’m currently $200 in the hole on this project), but I’m hoping to get at least 10-20 copies out early. Maybe more, depending on demand.
UnravThreads
July 19, 2011 @ 11:29 am
Count me as a certain buy for it! 😀
Looking forward to it, Jim. I’m sure it’ll be great! Now I just have to decide if I want to read the Libriomancer teaser or not.
Sean Sweeney
July 19, 2011 @ 11:40 am
I’ll buy my own copy and review it, Jim.
Shane Ede
July 19, 2011 @ 12:04 pm
I’ll be buying a copy as well, Jim, and reviewing it.
Jim C. Hines
July 19, 2011 @ 2:10 pm
Thank you!
There’s a good chance that first chapter will change at least some between now and August of 2012 anyway…
Jim C. Hines
July 19, 2011 @ 2:10 pm
Thanks, Sean! Very much appreciated.
Jim C. Hines
July 19, 2011 @ 2:11 pm
Thank you, Shane!
UnravThreads
July 19, 2011 @ 5:01 pm
Either way, Jim, it’ll make the wait longer and harder. Ahem. That sounds dirty.
Jon Lundy
July 20, 2011 @ 11:51 am
I’ll be buying it, and I would like to thank you for releasing it as a collection instead multiple shorts. I really prefer to buy my short fiction in collections, I’ve been not purchasing the individual releases of several authors, hoping they will eventually release them as a collection.
Leslie
July 25, 2011 @ 4:34 pm
I’d also like to thank you for releasing it as a collection. It’s so much nicer that way. I definitely plan to buy a copy.