As I record the audiobook for The Black, I’m faced with a few questions. The more I narrate this book (yes, it’s more or less a straight read), the more I feel like something’s missing. Especially for the parts of the story where characters aren’t involved. If you’ve read the book, then you know what I’m talking about.

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Was recently asked by a listener/reader if future books would have hardcovers. The answer? HELL NO! And here’s why.

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Lamashtu is copyright 2014 by Paul E Cooley and is protected by a Creative Commons, Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives License.

Music by Kevin MacLeod. You can find his work at incompetech.com

Photo by George Lazenby.

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Lamashtu is copyright 2014 by Paul E Cooley and is protected by a Creative Commons, Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives License.

Music by Kevin MacLeod. You can find his work at incompetech.com

Photo by George Lazenby.

Purchase my new novel, The Black at Amazon in either ebook or trade paperback formats.

I have a ton of writing to do. And by ton, I mean reams and reams and reams of stories before I finish the series known as Garaaga’s Children. Considering it starts in pre-history and continues on through history until it meets the modern era, it’s a very large undertaking. But I have a question to answer.

Since the success of The Black and the fact Shadowpublications.com is (re)releasing Legends of Garaaga next month, I have to make some decisions regarding my writing schedule. First off, yes, I’m still working on the paraquel to The Black. That’s the first priority. Second priority? Hmm… Good question.

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Writing is a business. Wait…no…publishing is a business. Writing is the stringing together of words through some strange process incorporating the brain, a writing medium, and Cthulu’s leavings. Publishing, on the other hand, involves editors, designers, layout, production, and marketing. Or at least it should.

As I’ve mentioned multiple times, I’m a hybrid author. All but one of my books has been published by Shadowpublications.com or Blue Moose Press. In both cases, I am the publisher. And guess what? I pay editors. I pay designers. I pay folks to layout the text. I pay someone to produce the books. Unless it’s an ebook. Then I don’t pay myself for putting it together. Once all that’s done, I release it to a myriad of marketplaces and pray to Garaaga that someone will notice.

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With each book I write, I try something new. Hell, sometimes the entire process of writing the book is a new journey. The Black was the first time I attempted to write an ensemble novel and it’s worked out pretty damned well. Its sales have shocked me as have the fantastic rbneviews.

But there’s something bothering me. In several of the reviews, including author Ed Lorn’s fantastically kind words, it’s been mentioned that readers had a difficult time keeping track of the character names. For instance, Thomas Calhoun is referred to by both his first and last names. Multiply that by ten times and you can understand the confusion.

Before I sent the final version to the publisher, I thought I’d cleared most of that up. Evidently I didn’t. That’s on me and no one else. I’ll do better next time to make sure that kind of thing doesn’t happen.

So why did it happen at all? What the hell would possess me to do such a thing? Simple–literary sensibilities. Wait, that sounds too hoity-toity. Oh, well. Fuck it. I stand by it.

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For some reason, I thought the world was intelligent enough to move past this. Apparently I once again put too much faith in humankind. One of the listeners of the Dead Robots’ Society posted in our facebook group this morning about how he was told “you’re not really published. Because anyone can do that.”

All right, kids. Let’s talk about this for a moment. When I first started podcasting my fiction, the first thing I was asked was “are you published?” My response was always “are you listening to it?”

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As you have probably figured out by my flurry of posts the last couple of months, I’m now what’s called a “hybrid” author. For those not in the biz, this means that I not only publish books via my own publishing company (Shadowpublications.com), I also have a publisher for other titles. My hybrid experience has been incredible thus far and I plan on continuing running both sides. Because, frankly, I have a lot of stories that seem too eclectic for the mainstream publishers, but I love writing them and my patrons want to hear and read them. And who knows? After some serious publicity from The Black release (published by Severed Press), my independently published works might even catch on.

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I was on the Mythwits last night. Was a complete blast. You can watch/listen to the episode here.

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