From: nicky.matthews@btinternet.com   
      
   On Sunday, September 14, 2014 1:29:56 AM UTC+1, Michelle Bottorff wrote:   
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   > I have self-published a trilogy, Across a Jade Sea, which seems to be   
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   > getting pretty nice reviews on Amazon.   
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   Congratulations!   
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   > And my first "Black Flag" graphic novel is available on my website.  It   
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   > may even not be too terrible.  At least one person started there and was   
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   > interested enough to move on to Across a Jade Sea even though it was in   
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   > a different medium, so...   
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   You are amazingly productive!   
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   > I am currently painting covers and editing and so forth for Cantata in   
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   > Coral and Ivory, and Pavane in Pearl and Emerald, which I intend to   
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   > self-publish next, along with the related novella Velvel Lies. Hopefully   
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   > they'll be out this year.   
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   > And earlier this year, between putting out Across a Jade Sea and   
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   > starting to paint covers for Cantata and Pavane, I wrote vol 3, of Song   
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   > of Asolde, (that's the story I keep calling my EFP Epic.)   
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   > I'm not entirely certain what I'm going to do after releasing Cantata   
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   > and Pavane, though.   
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   > I don't want to start putting out Songe of Asolde until I've got it all   
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   > written, and I've still got at least two more books to go.  Because I   
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   > rotate between story worlds in order to not bore myself, the next story   
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   > in the queue is actually something set in the same world as Cantata and   
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   > Pavane -- although in a totally different culture.   
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   > We might try to get that one out next, even though it seems a little   
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   > strange to be talking about publishing a book I haven't even written   
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   > yet, when I've still got a backlog of completed mss.  The two Bambi   
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   > stories, for example.   
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   > But having connections between books is a marketting plus, isn't it?   
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   Definitely as is producing new books regularly. I want to a talk given by the   
   founder of Smashwords and he very much emphasised that and also giving readers   
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   > Bambi, being science fiction, will be a very abrupt turn off into "not   
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   > what I was expecting" for my existing readers.  Besides, I have got the   
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   > least amount of enthusiastic beta-reader support for Bambi of all my   
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   > novels post-Cantata, so... hmmm.   
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   That's when a different brand might be handy.   
   Nicky   
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