sister_raphael: (busywriting)
I'm excited to announce I'm partnering with InHouse Publishing for the rest of the little Medieval Wisdom Quote books set.

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y're family owned and operated right here in Brisbane, (and have been for 25 years) employing local people. What this means for me, is that my little medieval quote set books can be ordered and sent out directly from their web shop and they'll handle my distribution for shops. I'll be announcing pre-orders for Medieval Household Hints: Advice of Running a Household From The Middle Ages Which You Still Need Today early next week, so keep an eye out for that!

Best for me is that along with the ones they'll be publishing for me, they'll be adding my first one in the set, Medieval Wisdom for Modern Women, to their book store as well and adding it to their new catalogue, so potentially it opens up a whole new reach for me.

Local sales have been well supported, but getting the book into shops has been a lot harder as an individual. Having an established publisher behind the new releases will lend a bit more street cred to the releases.


Pre-orders will go live early next week and the fantastic thing about this is there's no Amazon involved. The physical copies of books will be around four weeks (or slightly less) and I've had the guided tour through their facility and can confirm that any pre-orders will be honoured right up front (unlike the first book Amazon pre-orders which got cancelled and disappointed a lot of people and they had to re-order.)

There's other book news too, but that's still under wraps for now!
sister_raphael: (busywriting)
Things are afoot!  I've met with my last time printer, and have a meeting tomorrow morning with a publisher, so things are moving at a great pace!



I've made some adjustments to the cover art, bought the ISBN and the barcode, so I officially have a second book in the set! I have preemptively set up the website pages, with the book landing page, banners, headers, About The Book, reviews and promo pages and where to shop, although that page is incomplete until I know who is printing it and where it's being published or if I'm self publishing this one.

I'm very excited! 

I'll be getting the models together and planning a little launch party, of course along with a slew of social media.
sister_raphael: (booksaremything)
Well, there's book things afoot and with some news I received from my publisher yesterday, I'm now in overdrive with the second of the medieval quote books, Medieval Household Hints: Advice on Running a Household from the Middle Ages Which You Still Need Today and getting that out. Here's the sneak, peek of the cover:



I had originally hoped my existing publisher would pick it up to compliment my two non fiction books, but there have been... issues... (friends only post about that shortly) and they aren't taking new books at the moment, and while mulling over a bunch of things, I've decided to see about having the next Medieval Hints book published here in Australia.

You might remember that I self published the first quotes book, Medieval Wisdom For Modern Women: Advice From The Middle Ages That You Still Need Today, which was good but had a few drawbacks. The book itself was printed here in Brisbane, supporting our local industry, but unfortunately, the printer was just that- a printer, not a publisher. My plan was to sell online via postage and at events and see if I could get small amounts into local books shops, all of which worked well to a varying degree.

Now that the USA is off limits for postage and international post is very expensive, it just isn't feasible to post out. I'm holding more stock that I wanted to, which I paid for up front, of course, but I will just chip away at it over the years until it's all gone.

Yesterday I discovered a Brisbane printer who also taps into the publisher network, promotes the books on their online book shop and does some online sales from there. It's not a print on demand situation. Tapping into the book shop network, getting a book sent out as a new release in mailings and promo is absolutely vital for getting things into places. From what I can see, I feel like I'd need to cover the cost upfront for printing etc and they take a percentage of online sales and store an amount of stock in their warehouse also for posting out and promoting on their own online bookshop, which, quite frankly, is fair to me. It's a lot of work to do all that, and it helps support a Brisbane family-run business. I'd have the rest of stock on hand for book signings and events for sales.

Anyway, I've sent them an email about prices, and if things aren't too bad, I might proceed with that asap. I have Mother's Day markets coming up and it would be fantastic to have it out for that! 

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