Grounds for Death is now available from Amazon for $2.99 for those of you who have a Kindle or expect one within, let's say, less than a week ;) ? It will also be available by December 25th in print form, if that's your preference. I'll do my best to get the book up on Chapters and Smashwords today.
I'm also announcing a mini blog tour to kick off this, book two, in the Garden Plot Mystery series. Here are the websites and dates:
On December 18th, Grounds for Death is featured on Dru's Book Musings. Dru Ann has a wonderful feature entitled "A Day in the Life of..." that provides blog followers with insights into the inner workings of cozy mystery sleuths. There's also a chance to win a copy of Grounds for Death for one luck entrant. Hurry, entries must be submitted by 6pm on Dec 20!
On December 20th, take a look at A Tale of Many Reviews, which asked me to provide an excerpt about Grounds for Death. I think you'll like it, and perhaps you'll be curious to know what happens next!
December 22th brings Lori's Reading Corner, just in time for the holidays. Here you can learn more about what's between the covers of Grounds for Death, and what pickle Marilee Bright finds herself in this time. And one lucky follower will receive a copy of Grounds for Death.
Happy holiday reading, everyone!
Showing posts with label grounds for death. Show all posts
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Monday, 19 December 2011
Thursday, 8 December 2011
Coming Soon: Grounds for Death
If you've read my other two posts today, you know that Grounds for Death will be available for the Kobo, Kindle, Nook and other e-readers, as well as in print, within days.
I can't wait, and to give you a sneak peek, I've attached a copy of the cover and synopsis below. Many thanks to Kathleen Collins Howell for the illustration and to Rebecca Swift for the cover design.
I can't wait, and to give you a sneak peek, I've attached a copy of the cover and synopsis below. Many thanks to Kathleen Collins Howell for the illustration and to Rebecca Swift for the cover design.
Who’d have thought a garden center owner could unearth the dirt on murder?
The season is off to a good start for Marilee Bright’s garden center and landscaping business. When skeletal remains are found at the bottom of a well during a landscaping project, things start to go downhill, and fast. Who is the dead body, and when was it dumped down the well? Is the killer still at large in the quiet town of Sandalwood? Amateur sleuth Marilee Bright needs to dig up the dirt on this murder before the “green” goes out of her business and she loses her hard-won new career.
I hope you take the opportunity to check it out.
Publishing a Print Book with CreateSpace
While the primary medium for publishing Grounds for Death is planned to be electronic (that is, e-books), I also had the cover designer provide a complete book cover file - front, spine and back. At the time I made the decision I didn't really expect to create a print book, I just thought it would save time and money in the long run if the two files were created at the same time. Now I'm glad I took that approach.
I've known for months that if I were to publish a print book, I would print it through CreateSpace. I hadn't realized how easy this is until just a couple of days ago when I set up a user ID in CreateSpace on a lark just to see how it would work. It looks like they've thought of everything. The process is easy to follow, you can always go back to a former screen, and links providing additional information open in a separate window so you never lose your spot in the process. Not to say it's fast - it took quite some time for me to work my way through all the screens. At one point, CreateSpace electronically assesses the correctness of your book's format and lets you know what major issues stand in the way of finalizing the book. I had two, which I figured was pretty good. The first was that I had too many blank pages between my title page and the next page, which I fixed in minutes. The second was that the fonts used in the book had to be embedded in the file. I had no idea how to do this, but CreateSpace provided screen-by-screen instructions, so I was able to address this also within minutes. (And my PC is using Word 2003, so I was pleased to see instructions still available for that version of Word.)
So far, so good. I'm now at the stage where I've ordered a printed proof to see how it will look, which will be here by Dec 13th (I paid extra for fast shipping, to keep to my timelines).
I hope to be able to let you know within days that both my e-book and print book are available.
I've known for months that if I were to publish a print book, I would print it through CreateSpace. I hadn't realized how easy this is until just a couple of days ago when I set up a user ID in CreateSpace on a lark just to see how it would work. It looks like they've thought of everything. The process is easy to follow, you can always go back to a former screen, and links providing additional information open in a separate window so you never lose your spot in the process. Not to say it's fast - it took quite some time for me to work my way through all the screens. At one point, CreateSpace electronically assesses the correctness of your book's format and lets you know what major issues stand in the way of finalizing the book. I had two, which I figured was pretty good. The first was that I had too many blank pages between my title page and the next page, which I fixed in minutes. The second was that the fonts used in the book had to be embedded in the file. I had no idea how to do this, but CreateSpace provided screen-by-screen instructions, so I was able to address this also within minutes. (And my PC is using Word 2003, so I was pleased to see instructions still available for that version of Word.)
So far, so good. I'm now at the stage where I've ordered a printed proof to see how it will look, which will be here by Dec 13th (I paid extra for fast shipping, to keep to my timelines).
I hope to be able to let you know within days that both my e-book and print book are available.
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