Category: Writing

We’re almost there with The Magicians’ Daughter being available at Amazon. The problem turns out to have been that Amazon did not like my short story More Than Once Upon a Time being available for free on the Beyond-Ceaseless-Skies website. Since I’m dealing with a book amalgamator and not directly with Amazon, I’m not allowed to have any free content up anywhere in books I’m selling at Amazon. Since the book has already been published to other venues with the story included, I couldn’t really change the Amazon version, which is why I had to ask Beneath-Ceaseless-Skies to take my story down down. Not my preferred solution, as I’m thankful for that webzine publishing the story in the first place, but the only one I had available given Amazon’s policy.

But Beneath-Ceaseless-Skies still has many great stories. Follow the link to check them out!

Still trying to work out the kinks so The Magicians’ Daughter will available at Amazon. Since the story I want to include, More Than Once Upon a Time, is available for free in a slightly different version at Beyond-Ceaseless-Skies, Amazon won’t publish the book. I will probably have to remove the story from TMD, but am still looking into other options.

The Stoneways Trilogy is once again available in ebook form! Reiffen’s Choice, Queen Ferris, and The Magicians’ Daughter can all be purchased through most online retailers with Amazon (typically) being the only exception. All three books feature something new:

The complete text of Mindrell’s poem Mennon’s Ride in Reiffen’s Choice;

A brand new story, Nolo’s Adventures in the Pearl Islands, in Queen Ferris;

and an expanded version of More Than Once Upon a Time, which originally appeared in Beneath-Ceaseless-Skies issue 15, in The Magicians’ Daughter.

If you’re interested, click on the link Where to Buy My Books in the menu at the top of the page.

The books should be available at Amazon within a week or so (I hope). Amazon requires more administrative work to get published than other bookselling sites, and I think I’ve given them everything they needed (including my reversion letter). Fingers crossed.

So, I was hoping to have the new Stoneways ebooks available on Tuesday, but I think there’s still a hangup with Amazon. (Of course there’s a hangup with Amazon.) According to D2D, which is how I’m doing the self-publishing thing, I need to send a specific email to Amazon through them specifying that these are my books, only the email language won’t download automatically (so I don’t think I’ve sent the email.) Until the D2D support team gets back to me on what I’m doing wrong, the books will be available everywhere but Amazon.

Which is not necessarily a bad thing.