Blood Curse: Waves of Darkness book 1 ebook LIVE!

Through much frustration tempered with patience, the ebook version of Blood Curse 2nd edition is now available on several platforms. Just in time for the start of shopping season, too!

You can find it in multiple formats on Smashwords. Since I am new to selling directly through them rather than going through a proven publisher, they have not distributed the book to Amazon yet. If you have a Kindle, you can buy a .mobi file from Smashwords.

It has also gone live on Kobo and Scribd. According to my channel manager, it should also be available at Apple. Since my devices are not Apple/Mac, I cannot verify that, so I just linked to their store on the book’s landing page.

I still have to get the file converted to Epub for uploading to Google Books. While Smashwords’ Meatgrinder does convert to that format (among others) it is frowned upon to use their file to upload to an unaffiliated retailer like Google Play.

(I have to wonder if that arrangement might change in the near future. Smashwords has partnered with Findaway Voices ebook producers and distributors. Findaway may soon be purchased by Google, if I remember a recently read article correctly.)

Much as I would love to go wide with an audio book version, I will probably end up using ACX despite the 7 year contract and limited to Audible. I just can’t afford the narrator prices/finished hour. Apparently the lowest rate is $100/hr. but averages higher. This would be about an 8.5 hour book going by word count. That’s a big ouch. The only way I could swing that would be through some sort of crowd funding. I don’t have the equipment, proper sound-proofing, or time to create the audio files myself. I don’t think I even have a space in my house that could be adequately adapted for recording.

Anywho, all the current purchase links for both the print (US$16.95 or less) and ebook (US$3.99) can be found HERE. I hope you enjoy reading it!

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