Category: Publishing Plans

Pomegranate Lover on Amazon!

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*puts on Tia Baden hat*

Yay! The kindle edition of Pomegranate Lover went live on Amazon Tuesday or yesterday, and today the print and kindle editions linked successfully, so that you can now access them both from here. This is a collection of short (sometimes very short) stories I wrote on and off between 2005 and 2008 or 2009, and it includes “The Pomegranate Lover,” “The Prince of Horai and the Paper Sword,” “Like Father Like Son,” “Smokesteel,” “Sword of the Kear,” and “Blind Man’s Bluff.” The total collection is about 53-54 pages long, $2.99 on Kindle and $6.99 in paperback.

I am uncertain about how aggressively to promote this; I may do a Kindle Countdown Deal or a Freebie deal of some kind, and I will announce it here if so, but since I don’t know how soon I will revisit this pen name, and the genre is different from my current set of writing projects, I’m unwilling to burn promotional money on things like Bookbub, etc.

 

The Pomegranate Lover at Createspace

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*Puts on Tia Baden hat*

A lady who loves pomegranates meets the bard who brought the fruit into her country, and discovers his terrible secret. A Japanese peasant saves a magical princess and becomes a Prince in the mysterious land of Horai…at a terrible price. Alexander Hamilton senses a ghostly presence as he prepares for his final duel. A pirate captain must intimidate a sea serpent long enough for his men to find a way to kill it…Collected here together for the first time, are Tia Baden’s mythic tales of love, honor, and revenge.

The Pomegranate Lover and Other Stories is now available for purchase at Createspace. The print edition should go live at Amazon sometime next week, and at that point I will upload the mobi file and see if the two editions link in a timely fashion.

Pomegranate Lover Cover Reveal!

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*puts on Tia Baden hat*

My short story collection “The Pomegranate Lover and Other Stories” is almost ready to go live. I’ve ordered a proof copy of the paperback version from Createspace, and if I can live with what I did to the cover on that version, I will approve the print version and upload the mobi version to Amazon. In the meantime, here is the cover art for the ebook.
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State of the Paranormal Romance Project

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*puts on Mel Dunay hat*

So, for a long time, I thought that I was rewriting and editing the rough draft of book 1 in a loose trilogy, had a rough draft for book 2, and an outline for book 3. Well, I started writing from the outline a few weeks ago and discovered that this was actually going to be book 2, and the one rough draft was going to be book 3.

The polishing on book 1 is still going forward, a little slowed down by stuff going on in my personal life, because although I can work on book 2 during break time at my day job, I need to be at home, with access to Scrivener, to clean up book 1. The polishing is going pretty smoothly so far, but it will get more complicated as I approach the third act of the book. That section of the book was where I started getting sloppy and confused while writing the rough draft for National Novel Writing Month back in 2013.

So, with any luck, book 1 will be ready sometime this fall in September or October, but there may be a longer gap between it and book 2 than I’d originally planned. Fingers crossed.

“The Prince of Horai” is now free for a limited time!

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It has always been free for Kindle Unlimited subscribers, but for today and the four days after that, it is free for everyone.  This is mostly an experiment to understand how this type of promotion works at Amazon, and there will not be any serious marketing push to accompany this.

You can download “The Prince of Horai and the Paper Sword” here on Amazon US.

Slight Change of Plans…

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*Puts on Tia Baden hat*

It’s looking like the other short stories I had planned to put out under my “Tia Baden” pen name are too short to release as stand-alones.  (As in, it would take people longer to download them to their Kindles than it would to read them.)  I will instead focus on getting them set up as a collection of short stories on Amazon and Createspace, and on editing the first two books in my urban fantasy/paranormal romance trilogy, planned to go out under my “Mel Dunay” pen name.  (The third one in the trilogy is probably going to be rough-drafted during NaNoWriMo this year).

Introduction to Jaglion Press

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Jaglion Press is owned and operated by an author who writes as Mel Dunay, Tia Baden, and Micah Chase.  Its first publication, a short story titled “The Prince of Horai and the Paper Sword,” is available through Kindle Unlimited.  Jaglion Press plans to release several more short stories on Kindle over the coming months, to test the market and get a feel for the publishing procedures on Amazon, then put out a short story collection on Kindle and Createspace.  This will be followed by the first book (title TBA) in Mel Dunay’s urban fantasy/paranormal romance trilogy.