The Cellophane Queen: A Couple of New Cool Things

Saturday, November 17, 2018

A Couple of New Cool Things

X-RAYS! Well, not as cool as they show in the comics, but a nice feature of Kindle books. You know, the books sold by Amazon. Now, x-rays for ebooks are only available on the Kindle versions you buy at Amazon (or get for free). The author or publisher has to go through a grindingly painstaking process of trying to decide what Characters or Terms the reader might click to find out more about, then decide to write an original definition (generally for characters) or pulled right off Wikipedia (generally for terms or place names).

The entire Witches of Galdorheim series now has x-ray available. If you already have any of the ebooks from Kindle, just kick it off your reader, then re-send it to get the updated version.

Other books with x-rays include "First Duty," "Eagle Quest," and "Missing, Assumed Dead." I'm hitting the Tales of Abu Nuwas books next. My gosh, is there ever a ton of characters and terms to define in those! For one thing, the books have a lot of middle-eastern mythological characters. Sometimes, the English/American spelling varies from source to source. That makes that much harder to locate and either select a decent Wiki article or find some other source and grab it for inclusion.

In addition, I've applied to make The Witches of Galdorheim an official series which allows it to be bundled. Bundling allows a reader to grab all the books in a series at one go. I'd love everybody to do that. I have not yet heard back from Amazon on how this will work exactly. There should be a series product page at some point.

The other good part? It appears that Amazon is giving discounts on the books in the series already. For example, Bad Spelling is retail $3.99 (inflation!), but being sold for $3.14 on Amazon. Hey! Another cool thing (I think), Amazon has also discounted the paperback price to less than the ebook price ($2.95). I assume I'll still get the full royalty if any are sold, so go buy a paperback when it's discounted!

So, here's the Witches of Galdorheim bundle. Retail prices shown are for the individual books. I don't know how much the bundle will be. Also, note that the short story Spellslinger is included in Bad Spelling, so all five are included in the bundle.

Witches of Galdorheim Series