Welp, I could have titled this post Never Say Never but eh, I'm a bigger Jimmy Buffett fan than James Bond.
So, it's been about a week, SURPRISE! For the ten or so of you who still read this blog I thought I'd let you know that I'm in the middle of making a change to 12 to 14 titles. Like, uh, going back to KU... don't hit me!
SIGHS! Only 10 titles are going back to KU. I went through the last 4 months of book sales, if you can call those sales, and decided to go ahead and return 10 titles to KU. I mean no sales or page reads anywhere off the zon or even on the zon, so I guess it doesn't matter where those are posted, and maybe, just maybe I can get some eyes on those titles. All of the newer non-series books. Every single one. Okay except Into the Gloaming, it seems to have found a small footing in wide release and I'm not going to stop it now. I mean, it's not doing double digit sales a month but at least it's getting close each month now, and that's better than it has done, maybe ever. I know it's long, really long, it was meant to kick off a series. I did the world building... and nothing. just crickets.
I decided to pull one series and add those two books in for flavor. I'll list the titles at the end of the post.
But that's just 10 titles, didn't you say 12 to 14 titles?
I did. None of those titles are going to KU, 2 of those titles are only affected on Barnes & Noble, and 2 are getting archived permanently.
Double SIGHS! Barnes & Noble now appears to censor books. They hide them. I can't even find them by searching the title and author name. I can only find them through the link in the listing page. So why the hell bother keeping them there, so I pulled one to send to KU. One I can't send to KU. And the last does well on Kobo so it's just leaving B&N.
And the other 2? My first two published books. The pre-Mercy pen name books. Through the Ghost published with Ellora's Cave imprint Cerridwen Press 20 years ago this August. It was the 13th published title with them, ever. I guess it was doomed from the get-go, if you believe in such things. And Sunny with a Chance was a short story I published with Ellora's Cave in early 2010. Neither did well. When I finally got my fights back to them I republished them, but they never were accepted, so, I'm done trying. I should have archived them years ago, but... shrugs. Doesn't matter.
But going back to Barnes & Noble, I still haven't listed the main Scrimmage books there, so really there's only about half of my backlist available there right now. I pulled Under a Crescent Moon, Beyond Complicated, and Double Coverage, because they were hidden from search. DC is going into KU, Moon can't, And BC is doing well in Kobo Plus, so right now I'm leaving it in.
So after going around the roundabout about six times, the books currently delisting from everywhere but Zon and Payhip are:
Behind Iron Lace
Behind Frosted Lace
Courting Sin
Double Coverage
Falling Back
Light from the Dark
Need You Now
One True Pair
River's Edge
and
Wicked Game
As soon as they finish delisting from all wide locations I'll enroll them. If you'd like to buy them directly from me until that time, you can click the covers >>>>> and follow the link. Just remember, I can't keep the Payhip links live while the books are in KU but you can email me for a direct link if you ever want something.
But now that I've gotten this far into the post, I realize that I might have lied about the change in attitude part, I'm still bitter about KU... but... needs must.
SIGHS!!!!
Thanks for hanging around to the end.
Peace,
Mercy
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