And everything is gone
I just don't have words. All the books are down and the press is closed. It's devastating and while I'm still confident the decision was the right one, it means a lot of work, and as someone with chronic conditions, I just don't have spoons to get anything back out right now.
So, a reimagined rerelease schedule, if I can pull myself together will start with The Tendire Gate, because it's easiest, and possibly The Byte of Betrayal. Both are ebook only releases, and so the changes to the files would be minimal. The Tendire Gate worries me, because on its original release it got tossed for no apparent reason into the adult dungeon. It's probably my least explicit story. So I need to figure that out.
I know. These books are my babies, why am I not willing to spend that time? It comes down to health, and that fall that I've talked about last March. It wasn't just any injury, it was a broken back. The recovery is glacially slow. I did complete Nano, as is my tradition, in November, so there is improvement, but I will say, it was hard—as hard as when I lost Piggy, or the year I tried to write when dumpster fire came into office. But I feel desperately in need of getting some of these back into the world, so we'll see if I can manage it.
So, a reimagined rerelease schedule, if I can pull myself together will start with The Tendire Gate, because it's easiest, and possibly The Byte of Betrayal. Both are ebook only releases, and so the changes to the files would be minimal. The Tendire Gate worries me, because on its original release it got tossed for no apparent reason into the adult dungeon. It's probably my least explicit story. So I need to figure that out.
I know. These books are my babies, why am I not willing to spend that time? It comes down to health, and that fall that I've talked about last March. It wasn't just any injury, it was a broken back. The recovery is glacially slow. I did complete Nano, as is my tradition, in November, so there is improvement, but I will say, it was hard—as hard as when I lost Piggy, or the year I tried to write when dumpster fire came into office. But I feel desperately in need of getting some of these back into the world, so we'll see if I can manage it.
Rereleases Delayed
So, this year has been a year of setbacks. As some may have heard, I had a nasty fall on the ice in winter 2022, and the gist is that the injury was and continues to be severe. While I am recovering, sitting or standing for prolonged periods (measured in minutes not hours) becomes unreasonably painful quickly. I tried a writing challenge in July to see if I could manage something and failed miserably—the first time in a very long time that I've failed such a challenge.
With Purple Horn Press going out of business for a multitude of reasons, that means that all my books will be going out of print. Whether they'll find their way back is a good question, and I don't have an answer yet. I hope so.
With Purple Horn Press going out of business for a multitude of reasons, that means that all my books will be going out of print. Whether they'll find their way back is a good question, and I don't have an answer yet. I hope so.
So when will stuff go out of print?
Not all at once. Tendire Gate and A Christmas Vision will leave the catalog first—soon, perhaps as early as this week. Then, taking a little longer because they're in wider distribution, The Byte of Betrayal and American Pride will come down.
The College Rose Romances will come down last, probably close to the end of the month.
The College Rose Romances will come down last, probably close to the end of the month.
Will anything return?
Maybe? If I publish again it will probably be just through Amazon initially. I'm hesitant to use the Amazon ISBN, so that means sinking some funds into new ISBN numbers, and in the US that's not cheap. There's also some reformatting to be done, and I am unsure, still, on the cover for A Christmas Vision, so there may need to be some cover art reworking. That said, if I was to reenter the market with my books, I'd want to put A Christmas Vision out before Thanksgiving. I guess this is all to say that I haven't decided, but if I do, it'll be soonish (before Thanksgiving) and A Christmas Vision is likely to be one of the first titles. I would expect e-book only titles to come fastest, which is to say that Forgiving James is certainly going to be delayed... again.