The good folk at Open Road Media , of whom I've often spoken because they are rescuing literally hundreds of thousands of books from the backlists of thousands of writers*, have come up with another clever promotion: dropping the price on the first book in various series. In this case they're dropping the price on Patton's Spaceship, the first book in my old Timeline Wars series, of which I've said a few things recently.
So for those who like series and prefer to start them off cheaply, especially those who want Books To Put Hair On Your Chest, till January 8, 2015, Open Road is making getting into the Timeline Wars cheap. The buy button on their page for it has links to most of the major online ebook sellers.
The more I looked at that idea, the better I liked it. It occurred to me that I have launched six series in my much-checkered career, plus something I shall merrily call an un-series, and discounts for exploring them seem like a fine idea, especially at holiday time when so many people buy signed backlist books as gifts.** Quite by accident, I'm already doing that to some extent because I found a batch of excellent-condition Orbital Resonances, which allows me to do a signed-hardcover-firsts sale for the Century Next Door series (the one that Amazon keeps renaming Meme Wars) which you can find details about in my backlist catalog (scroll down to the Temporary offers).
But there are other ways to get into series than the most expensive/collectible, and other series to be gotten into, so here's a quick list of deals I'm able to offer (I'd do one or two for every series but, alas, so many of you nice people buy books from me that most series of my books are now missing a book or two).
Series
|
Type of books
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Special price till Jan 8 (for
excellent condition)
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Century
Next Door (Orbital Resonance, Kaleidoscope Century, Candle, The Sky So Big
and Black)
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Signed
1st edition hardcovers
|
$64.25
($10 off single copy prices)
|
Giraut
Leones
(A
Million Open Doors, Earth Made of Glass, The Merchants of Souls, The Armies of Memory)
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ARCs
(advanced reading copies -- the things the publisher sends out before
publication to reviewers.) I only have enough to do one set. Now you too can
experience the cardstock covers and uncorrected typos and have the
very-first-reader experience by pretending the books have not been out for
years! Slightly more seriously, these would be highly collectible, especially
since there's only one set, and it's probably a collector who will grab this
up.
|
$45.00
($34.00 off the single copy total price)
|
Jak
Jinnaka, the origin trilogy (The Duke of Uranium, A Princess of the Aerie, In
the Hall of the Martian King)
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Mass
market paperback first editions, signed, dated, and personalized at no extra
charge.
|
$20.00
($5.50 off total single copy price)
|
Daybreak
origin Trilogy (Directive 51, Daybreak Zero, The Last President)
|
Plain
old mass market paperbacks to just read (but signed, dated, and personalized
at no extra charge).
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$17.50
($5.00 off total single copy price)
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If you are interested, drop me a note and we'll figure out shipping, personalization, and all those other details.
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*most importantly including mine! Though upon looking at that page I do notice that my habit of using my actor headshots for author photos can have its drawbacks: I must've been auditioning for Lenny in Of Mice and Men that day.
**You didn't know people did that? Oh, my. Better do a lot of it so people won't realize you didn't know! You don't want to be the last one on the block!
