Guardian, Book 1 of The Wildlands, can now be preordered at the ‘Big 5’ storefronts. Click on the store you prefer below to secure your e-book today! Print editions are not available for pre-order but will go live for sale on November 17th at the Amazon link.
(You can also visit the Book Shop to find these links!)
This was a really big deal to me!
Lots of readers don’t use the Amazon Kindle and I didn’t want them to be left out. A great many authors publish exclusively with Amazon for their e-book (you have to if you want to be in the Kindle Unlimited catalog) but, as a result, anyone outside that eco-system is out of luck/has to buy print.
Google was the only one that really took forever – their preliminary review is crazy slow – but Apple was, by far, the worst to setup. I think I did more paperwork for Apple than the other four combined! Barnes & Noble was a breeze except for the cover image (must be smaller than 2MB, mine was 2.05). Kobo was a delight and super easy, much like Amazon.
Many of you probably don’t even know what Kobo is!
They’re Canadian, have their own e-reader, and are unique in that their entire catalog of e-books is reviewed by humans. Yup! Amazing customer service (they’re Canadian, duh) and super-duper indie-publisher friendly. If you happen to care about who you support with your business when it comes to buying e-books, Kobo is a great place to start. They also have a subscription service – similar to Kindle Unlimited – but it does not force exclusivity onto authors.
(Not-Fun Fact about Kindle Unlimited: the exclusivity only applies to indie-publishers. If you’re with a larger traditional publisher, like Orbit, Amazon lets those e-books be on other markets and KU. Because that’s totally fair and not monopolistic.)
In related news, I’m working on getting the print editions sorted with Ingram-Spark.
This will be a major step towards getting print editions into bookstores, libraries, and other markets. A lot of work remains (on my part) to convince stores to carry Guardian, of course, but it’s still pretty neat that the book will soon enter catalogs for these entities to consider!
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