The aftermath of giving away free Kindle copies of RAGING WATER, is readers bought what they thought was number one in the sries, DEADLY OMEN. But that book was not the first in the series.
The first book is DEADLY TRAIL, but it's listed as #0.
The reason is, it didn't get published until long after the first four book in the series came out.
Anyone who knows me and my publishing history are aware I've had many publishers along the way. The wonderful woman who published the first four books and became a friend, passed away unexpectedly. DEADLY TRAIL was picked up by a populare independent publsiher. Unfortunately, this publiher had a death in the family and closed the doors to her business.
The series was picked up by another quite renound small press, but after a few years, they shut down too.
My friend suggested I go the self-publishing route. Frankly, at my age I didn't want to learn how to do what had to be done. My friend said she'd help--and help she did. I got the rights back for the books that had been published as well as the covers--and she and her husband did the hard work of getting this series published again. Needless to say, they've been a great blessing to me and my publishing life.
I guess Amazon didn't want to make changes as to the number of the books and DEADLY TRAIL became #0.
This first book introduces Tempe, her son, Blair, the man she's engaged to, Pastor Hutch, and Nick Two John. I got the idea for the wonderful garden in the book from an Indian and his wife I met at a friend's home. They described their garden and I knew it belonged in a book.
Here is the link to DEADLY TRAIL
Available on Kindle and in print.
Marilyn
1 comment:
The hard thing about self-publishing is trying to make the right decisions such as whether the book is finally ready to be published, if the cover is the right one, where to promote, etc. At least with self-publishing an author doesn't have to wait to find out whether or not a publisher like the book.
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