3 New Books are Ready to Roll Out
My three new books are ready to roll out.
But on that score, I HAVE BAD NEWS AND GOOD NEWS.
FIRST THE BAD NEWS
One of my Kelley Phone Tag volumes is so enormous that I’ll have to charge $19.99 for it.
KDP won’t allow me to charge anything less than $16.49 for it and I wouldn’t see a dime of profit on it if I charge that. (The printer always gets the lion’s share of the profit.)
And it covers just the year 1994. We did a heckuva lot of gabbing on the phone that year plus there are some additional visits and convention appearances in it that didn’t make it into the UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL book.
It’s also in a smaller font than the others (12) to fit the entire year into one volume, or it would have cost even more.
The other Kelley Phone Tag volumes will be $14.99 (AFAIK now) because they aren’t as massive…
AND HERE’S THE GOOD NEWS
I plan to publish these as Kindle books, too, and the price on ALL Kindle volumes will likely be $9.99 each! UNLESS I get surprised by KDP when it comes to pricing them. The Kindle versions (unlike the print versions) will be full color inside. (Not that there are a lot of images in these six volumes, but the ones that are there, you’ll get to see in all their Technicolor glory.)
The first three volumes haven’t come completely out of review yet, but I expect them to over the weekend. (The ISBN barcode area on the back needed resizing so none of the back cover copy is obscured, so I needed to resubmit for review again. That was the ONLY issue the reviewers found. WHEE!!!)
I promise you, I’m going to keep the prices as low as I possibly can while still making a little money on them. I’ve worked my butt off to get these finished and I don’t want anyone who wants them to be unable to afford them!
I think it’s criminal that the printer gets to keep the lion’s share of the profit when I did 99.999999% of the work, but that’s the reality!
P.S. The four people who helped me with these volumes (Jim Westbrook, Karen MacLeod, Judy Grover and Lisa Twining Taylor) will all get comp PDF copies of them. (The PDFs will be full color inside, of course.)
P.P.S. Anyone who is living on a paltry, inadequate income (SS, disability, crushing student debt, etc.) and people living paycheck to paycheck while working full-time or patching together two or three jobs to keep your head above water who absolutely cannot afford the listed prices of these volumes (or any other title I ever write) should IM me with your particulars. I will find a way! I’ve been in your shoes and I know what having to do without something that can lift your spirits can do to you. IM me! I’ll work with you to make something happen! I firmly believe in No Fan Left Behind! (I will require you to sign a legally-binding contract that you will not share your PDF copy with anyone else outside your immediate nuclear family, and I will need their names, email addresses and signatures as well on the same contract. I didn’t fall off the turnip truck yesterday.)
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Please, just take my money! Looking forward to these books!
You’re DE best! Thank you for this,Jim!
Do you have any audible tapes of your conversations, or just transcripts? I’d love to hear the nflections of the voices in the conversations.
The audiobook of DeForest Kelley Up Close and Personal has more than twenty minutes of actual voicemail messages at the end of it. I narrated the rest of the book. It’s available here for $24.99 under the “Books” tab.
I am looking forward to this publication. He was a really nice man. Saw him in NYC at the first convention. Thanks for doing this. I always wanted to know more about him. Was so tempted to ring his doorbell in Sherman Oaks.