So, What's Everyone Working On - CrimeSpace2024-03-29T06:04:30Zhttp://crimespace.ning.com/forum/topics/so-what-s-everyone-working-on?commentId=537324%3AComment%3A389523&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noYou are lucky in your publish…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2014-05-25:537324:Comment:3895232014-05-25T17:08:26.566ZI. J. Parkerhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Ingpark
<p>You are lucky in your publisher. I hate to say it, but I'll never trust another one myself. (Except for translations).</p>
<p>You are lucky in your publisher. I hate to say it, but I'll never trust another one myself. (Except for translations).</p> My current publisher said the…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2014-05-25:537324:Comment:3896252014-05-25T13:50:36.724ZJ. E. Seymourhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/JESeymour
<p>My current publisher said they would take it, but it was going to be another year before it came out. After much discussion, we agreed it would be better if I just brought it out, and they agreed to help publicize it. They have a free sample offer on their website, where you can get the first few chapters of a novel for free, and a 35% off coupon. They're going to include a short story with the free chapters of each of my novels, to promote both the short story collection and the novels. …</p>
<p>My current publisher said they would take it, but it was going to be another year before it came out. After much discussion, we agreed it would be better if I just brought it out, and they agreed to help publicize it. They have a free sample offer on their website, where you can get the first few chapters of a novel for free, and a 35% off coupon. They're going to include a short story with the free chapters of each of my novels, to promote both the short story collection and the novels. I chose stories for each novel. It's a win-win!</p> Good for you. I did the same…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2014-05-24:537324:Comment:3897102014-05-24T20:53:52.947ZI. J. Parkerhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Ingpark
<p>Good for you. I did the same some years ago. My readers were begging for the collection, but the publisher wasn't interested. I pubbed it myself. It doesn't sell as well as the novels, but it sells.</p>
<p>Good for you. I did the same some years ago. My readers were begging for the collection, but the publisher wasn't interested. I pubbed it myself. It doesn't sell as well as the novels, but it sells.</p> Spent the last week working o…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2014-05-24:537324:Comment:3897092014-05-24T14:45:58.612ZJ. E. Seymourhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/JESeymour
<p>Spent the last week working on formatting a short story collection for publication. Over the last ten years, I've had fifteen short stories published featuring my main character. Put them together in a collection and started shopping that to publishers, with no luck. Broke down and put them up myself this week. Here's the result:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/440974" target="_blank">https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/440974</a></p>
<p>Finished reading <em>Live…</em></p>
<p>Spent the last week working on formatting a short story collection for publication. Over the last ten years, I've had fifteen short stories published featuring my main character. Put them together in a collection and started shopping that to publishers, with no luck. Broke down and put them up myself this week. Here's the result:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/440974" target="_blank">https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/440974</a></p>
<p>Finished reading <em>Live By Night. </em> Waiting for my library to get <em>Ordinary Grace</em> on interlibrary loan, because heaven forbid they should actually buy an award winning crime/mystery novel when there's so much romance being written. </p>
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<p></p> Thanks, Joy, but I should be…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2014-05-15:537324:Comment:3894752014-05-15T19:49:53.753ZJed Powerhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/JedPower
<p>Thanks, Joy, but I should be thanking you. You're feedback, including titles, in our group has been a great help & fun.</p>
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<p>Thanks, Joy, but I should be thanking you. You're feedback, including titles, in our group has been a great help & fun.</p>
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<p>Jed</p> Love that title, Jed. The Co…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2014-05-15:537324:Comment:3894732014-05-15T18:12:20.537ZJ. E. Seymourhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/JESeymour
<p>Love that title, Jed. The Combat Zone one. :-) </p>
<p>Love that title, Jed. The Combat Zone one. :-) </p> My 3rd crime novel in the Dan…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2014-05-15:537324:Comment:3896552014-05-15T17:15:21.358ZJed Powerhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/JedPower
<p>My 3rd crime novel in the Dan Marlowe/Hampton Beach series, "Blood On Hampton Beach," will be out in paper and ebook in 1 week. I'm working on the 4th.</p>
<p>I also have a completed crime novel, "The Combat Zone," about a PI who hangs his hat in 1970's Harvard Square and spends a lot of time in the Combat Zone, Boston's red light district. I'm trying to sell that one or find an agent. I'm working on the 2nd novel in this series.</p>
<p>Also punching out short stories.</p>
<p>My 3rd crime novel in the Dan Marlowe/Hampton Beach series, "Blood On Hampton Beach," will be out in paper and ebook in 1 week. I'm working on the 4th.</p>
<p>I also have a completed crime novel, "The Combat Zone," about a PI who hangs his hat in 1970's Harvard Square and spends a lot of time in the Combat Zone, Boston's red light district. I'm trying to sell that one or find an agent. I'm working on the 2nd novel in this series.</p>
<p>Also punching out short stories.</p> I'd heard something about it.…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2014-05-14:537324:Comment:3895842014-05-14T20:12:28.759ZI. J. Parkerhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/Ingpark
<p>I'd heard something about it. Wouldn't mind seeing the old shows again. I'm not fond of the follow-ups.</p>
<p>I'd heard something about it. Wouldn't mind seeing the old shows again. I'm not fond of the follow-ups.</p> You sure like Morse. Did you…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2014-05-14:537324:Comment:3894692014-05-14T19:43:33.773ZTom Greerhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/TomGreer
<p>You sure like Morse. Did you know Colin Dexter has a cameo role in every single episode of Morse and Lewis?</p>
<p>You sure like Morse. Did you know Colin Dexter has a cameo role in every single episode of Morse and Lewis?</p> I'm working on the first draf…tag:crimespace.ning.com,2014-05-14:537324:Comment:3897482014-05-14T19:40:23.091ZTom Greerhttp://crimespace.ning.com/profile/TomGreer
<p>I'm working on the first draft of <em>Death Comes Calling</em>, the first in the Inspector Gore series based in North London.</p>
<p>How is it going? Well, I'm chatting here instead of writing...that's how it's going!</p>
<p>I'm working on the first draft of <em>Death Comes Calling</em>, the first in the Inspector Gore series based in North London.</p>
<p>How is it going? Well, I'm chatting here instead of writing...that's how it's going!</p>