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Publishing is Hard

May 9th, 2007 at 11:59pm Jen-t

First – I apologize to CMS for stepping in on her post day.  I hope you don’t mind, but this just couldn’t wait.

Second – There are to be no “poor babies” or any “oh that sucks” or even “screw them” comments.  I’m beyond that.  This is just the way the world works.  So, here is my not so great news.

Triskelion Publishing has changed hands and in the process they have decided to focus on e-books and have cancelled most print runs for this up coming year.  This includes cancelling my print run.  Yes, this was hard, but it was a business decision on their part.  It wasn’t because my book wasn’t good enough, because well, it’s a damn good book.  But the company was loosing money in the print world, but they are thriving in the ebook world.

This does not affect my e-book release.  RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU will be available for download sometime in June and I will let you all know.  I’m still going to do promotions for the book.  It’s still a start.  I’m still considered a published author.  It just means that for the time being, it won’t be in paperback.  That doesn’t mean they won’t eventually print it, just not in the near future.

I’ve also got a lot of things going, like I have an agent.  This is huge.  And while I recently got a rejection from Harlequin, the same book is at a few other houses, so cross your fingers.  I’m also writing other books.  I’m very close to being finished with my very first Thriller that has already been requested by TOR, so this is good.

Yes, I’m very disapointed.  Yes, it hurt.  But it wasn’t personal.  It was business and nobody ever said this was going to be easy.  It’s hard.

There, I’m done.  You can all go back to your regular scheduled lives.  Me, I’m going to continue to write, becasue I am a writer and a damn good one at that.

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