SAD JINGO update: Print-on-demand, a nice Goodreads review

Kudos to my publisher Delabarre for navigating for the first time the Byzantine labyrinth of publishing a print-on-demand title, with my own SAD JINGO, through Lightning Source. Evidently the process is arcane and non-intuitive enough that publisher and author were both unsure when exactly the book would appear on Amazon.com and BN.com, or at what price, as Delabarre filed the paperwork some weeks ago. At last, this past Thursday December 6, the book appeared on Amazon with a $9.99 price tag, and the next day on BN.com with a 3% discount, at $9.64.

Some observations:

• As seems to usually be the case when using Lightning Source, rather than Amazon’s own Createspace, the book first appeared as “temporarily out of stock” on Amazon, but that lasted only one day. That did not occur on BN.com. The advantage of going with Lightning Source is that it is now available through special order at any bookstore that gets books through the distributor Ingram.
• On Amazon, it’s a bit hard to get both versions — POD and Kindle — on the same page. You get one or the other. It has two different book numbers. I’m not sure what that means.  On BN.com, both editions appear on the same search page.

And humble thanks to a kind reviewer on Goodreads, who came across my book through being followed by my publisher on Twitter.  Aniko Carmean, author of STOLEN CLIMATES, had these nice things to say. My heartfelt thanks to all those who know me or are related to me and have given their compliments, but there is something special about a piece of one’s writing being appreciated by a stranger.