All right. I had a busy weekend.
Tales from the Arena: Opening Gambit is now live as a ebook AND as a print book!
For Ebooks:
For Print:
Tales from the Arena: Playing for Keeps is also live as an ebook. The print version will be along tomorrow, I think.
For Ebooks:
For Print:
Now… I market the heck out of them. So… if you’ve enjoyed any of my other books, share this around? And if anyone is interested in reviewing, please talk to me!
I finally finished redoing all the formatting that I somehow managed to strip out when I was getting the file ready. So here is book two of Tales from the Arena, now live on Smashwords and All Romance books. Amazon will be along presently.
Discovered that converting the files to Smashwords format stripped some of the formatting, and I didn’t notice. Just uploaded the corrected file for Opening Gambit, and am reading through Playing for Keeps to fix things there. If you bought a copy of Opening Gambit (I know someone did!), please go and get the updated copy?
Smashwords JUST went live, and should be propagating down to other venues soon. Amazon will be up later. And I’ll see about an actual paper version, too. Since, you know, I can.
The Ishkarin were created to be the perfect soldiers. The perfect predators. The perfect sadists. But what happens to the perfect soldiers when the war they were created to fight is over? In the Arena, the Ishkarin find an outlet for their natural instincts. Populated by the Collared, the sexual submissives who live to kneel before the predators, the Arena guarantees that the Ishkarin will not prey on the people they have sworn to protect.
On the eve of his appointment as second-in-command to the Ishkarin forces, Gavir is gifted with a night with Iras, the so-called Queen of the Arena. One wild night of passion and pain later, Gavir is enthralled by the woman who wears the red Collar. But when his fascination reveals a secret long buried, how far will Gavir go to protect the woman who has captured his heart?
Okay. Here’s a blurb. What do you think?
The Ishkarin were created to fight for Tyese. They are the perfect predators, the perfect soldiers, the perfect sadists. But what happens when the war is over? In the Arena, the Ishkarin find an outlet to their natural instincts. Populated by the Collared, the sexual submissives who live to kneel before the predators, the Arena guarantees that the Ishkarin will not turn on the people they are sworn to protect.
On the eve of his appointment as second-in-command to the Ishkarin forces, Gavir is gifted with a night with Iras, the so-called Queen of the Arena. One wild night of passion and pain later, Gavir is enthralled by the woman who wears the red Collar. But when his fascination reveals a secret long buried, how far will Gavir go to protect the woman who has captured his heart?
Tonight I received the cover art for the two books that I’ll be self-publishing. The artist is Carey Abbott, and BOY, am I happy I tripped over her site!
Gorgeous covers! Now, I just need to write the blurbs.
New and interesting and something I never thought I would say.
I’m going to be self-publishing Tales from the Arena.
If I got the formatting done properly, I’ll get them uploaded tomorrow. If I haven’t done the formatting properly, then we’re looking at Monday or so. The Smashwords guide to formatting an ebook is very good… if you’re using Word.
I’m not using Word. I think that may very well be something I splurge on next year, though. Between not being able to do rtf format in Libreoffice without losing all formatting when I hit ‘save’, and now not being sure if I’ve done this right… yeah, might be worth it.
So… tune in here for more information, which I’ll be posting as I figure out what I’m doing it becomes available!