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FIONA: ORIGINS

Coming This Week!

I intended to have this out a week ago, but fate intervened and things were delayed.

The professionals say to put up a pre-order for at least a month before releasing the book.

The bestseller lists like books released on Tuesdays.

The astrologists say not to launch anything during August at all, but to wait for September.

My gut says, release this book the second it's ready. And it's ready now.

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I've revised and polished and proofread and polished and re-read and polished and re-read again, and so has my editor. It's as good as I can make it.

So I've sent the manuscript off to my formatter. Now she must create several different types of files from the Word Doc. It's a different one for Kindle than for Nook, and a different one for paperback than for hardcover, and so on. So we need to give her a couple of days. She's beginning today, Sunday August 5th, because she's a saint.

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From the time she begins uploading to the time it's released will vary. The e-retailers each have their own time frame for processing the books through their …er…processes. I imagine them dropping the file into some sort of Rube Goldberg device. Kobo is usually fastest, and Nook is usually the slowest, with Kindle and iBooks and GooglePlay in the middle, but it never takes anyone more than a day or two.

The paperback and hardcover editions require an extra step. Once their Rube Goldberg machine spits the book out, I have to proofread each version one last time. So that'll add a couple of days. There's a real possibility the print edition won't be available for purchase until next week, the week of the 12th. But it'll be just as soon as we can manage it.

So we're down to the wire now!!!

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HAPPY NEW BOOK WEEK!

I've got buy buttons in place on the website, and I color coded them for ease of use. They are currently RED.

As the books goes live on each retailer, and in each format, that button will turn GREEN.

I'll also be posting updates on FACEBOOK and TWITTER as the books go live all this week!

I'll try to remember to use the hashtag #FionaOrigins

 
 
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