Well, it’s been a month, and I’m releasing a new book this weekend, so it’s time for another newsletter.
That new book is one I’ve announced before: Remembrance of Things to Come, a collection reprinting twenty-nine stories and a poem. There was an abortive release back in October, quickly cancelled when I realized that (a) I was violating the original contract for one of the stories, and (b) I’d screwed up the formatting in the ink-on-paper edition; this time I’ve fixed the formatting, and the exclusivity clause on that story expired a few days ago. This time for real.
By Monday it should be available from Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple, Smashwords, Bookshop.org, Tolino, Vivlio, Gardners, Fable, and Everand. It should also be available for checkout from the library services at Overdrive, cloudLibrary, BorrowBox, and Hoopla.
Kobo distributes to twenty-eight countries now, so it’s not limited to American markets.
I should also get it on Google Play fairly soon.
You’ll notice Amazon isn’t on that list. I’m publishing through Draft2Digital, and their relationship with Amazon is… complicated. If D2D doesn’t get it on Amazon within a week or so I’ll also publish through Kindle Direct Publishing, which should take care of that.
I expect this to be the publication and distribution model for all future Misenchanted Press titles.
So, in writing news: Tom Derringer & the Sinister Statue is progressing. I still haven’t finished the first draft, though it’s getting close. Despite how ridiculously long it’s taken me to write it, it’s going to be a pretty short book, but I think there’s some fun stuff in it.
“Hand Me Down” (I still don’t know whether it’s a short story, a novel, or something in between) is also coming along, but slowly. I’m on page 8.
No new stories started, thank heavens.
In personal news we took a break from the gloom of Seattle’s winter with a short cruise to sunny Mexico; I survived a brief but nasty bout of food poisoning; I went to the ballet for the first time in fifty years; and one of our nieces is expecting her first kid this spring. Things have generally been pretty normal — not nationally, but for us.
Hope you’re all managing well.
— Lawrence
