One advantage of having FurPlanet/Argyll unceremoniously dump twelve of my books back in my lap is that I’ll be able to start looking into advertising my books sooner. I don’t have to wait for Deep Sky Anchor to build up a catalogue of its own first now — it just inherited one.
My goal with advertising will just be breaking even. What I’ve always really wanted for my books is just for people to read them, so I’m really just trying to find more readers. That’s why I’m working on releasing serialized web versions that can be read for free too.
Being able to read books for free on serialized web pages doesn’t stop a lot of people from paying for the convenience of a paper or e-copy. But even if it did, I still really just want people to be able to read my books and share those worlds and characters with me.
Now that I’m taking over the control of most of my books, I’m gonna find a way to make things better again. It’s not like FurPlanet was selling that many copies anyway. They knew how to market to furries, but my books have the potential for much broader appeal. And I think I can market them better than FurPlanet did, because I see their potential so much more clearly. FurPlanet didn’t know what they had.
So, part of the process of illustrating Otters In Space 4 involves re-reading most of it…
And I am just so damned proud of this book. And I love Trugger so much. And he deserves to be loved