I am pleased to announce that SEPARATION ANXIETY is now available at Smashwords.com in a variety of digital formats, including Kindle. You can even sample 20% in the format of your choice for free before you buy.
My primary reason for taking matters into my own hands and publishing SEPARATION ANXIETY independently boils down to pricing. The publishing world is in a state of transition in the moment. It’s a huge enterprise with a lot of built up inertia going in one direction, that being a very traditional model in which the publishers control the market in terms of what gets published, when, and for how much. E-publishing is a leak in the dam that is gaining momentum and big publishers are scrambling to keep up and make as much profit as they can in the process.
I’ve seen my own titles climb in price from $5 to $10 and now to as much as $13 at some places – and that’s just for the digital copy. If you want a paperback of Here to Stay, be prepared to pay as much as $15. I know that smaller presses can’t compete on prices with bigger publishers and ebooks never go out of print but who is going to pay more than $5 for an ebook unless it’s from their favorite big-name author?
By making SEPARATION ANXIETY available at Smashwords.com, I’ve been able to decide what I think is a fair price on my own terms. It’s only been up since Tuesday, but once it passes the various quality control tests it will be eligible for distribution through Amazon Kindle, Apple, Sony, and other bigger outlets. Sure, I’ll be responsible for the bulk of the book’s promotion but what else is new?
All in all, it’s been an incredibly exciting and liberating process.
I am also investigating options for making SEPARATION ANXIETY available in print for those who prefer paperbacks – more details on that coming soon.
SEPARATION ANXIETY
Sometimes running away is the first step toward finding yourself.
Aurora has spent her entire married life transforming herself from a regular, middle class girl into the perfect society wife. Life seems perfect until she is unceremoniously dumped by her philandering cliche’ of a husband just before Christmas – and their tenth wedding anniversary.
Devastated and unable to face the social ostracism or the holiday parties, Aurora and her best friend Kat plan a trip to Amsterdam for a weekend…then decide to keep going. Aurora attempts to drown her sorrows with wine in Amsterdam and Frankfurt, finds her anger in Athens and Cairo, and reclaims her sexuality in Dubai. By the time she and Kat reach Bangkok at the New Year, Aurora is ready and eager to move on with her life.
Planned as a way to escape her pain, Aurora’s travels instead become a journey to a new sense of self and a whole new world – post-divorce.
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