I’ve played it safe with the reincarnation of Close to the Edge. I’m not using the cover Authorhouse created or the ISBN number it secured back in 2000. I decided a clean break is best. Why risk making an enemy of AH? The only negative so far is the blandness of the new cover. Here are the potential benefits: The price of the book at Amazon has been reduced by seven bucks, down from $18.63, even though the size has increased from 5x8 to 6x9 and there are approximately 70 more pages. I just ordered a proof copy. It cost $9.50 or so, which includes shipping, which means if I sell it for ten on the street I actually make a profit. If I buy a bunch of copies with accumulated gift certificates, I will receive the royalty on them, which Authorhouse was too miserly to pay. True, the royalty will be about a buck less, but when I first saw how expensive the book was I offered to take only a dollar per sale to reduce it by $2.58, and was denied. If I buy in bulk at Create Space, my profit margin per book will be more than a dollar. I will probably never turn a profit on it. That would require about 200 online print sales, or almost 500 more street sales. I recently blogged that the book was in a $1000 hole. That was wrong. It’s less than $500. My overall deficit has ballooned to about $1100 since I’ve purchased 50 copies each of Rising Star and Killing, and 45 of A Hitch in Twilight. If I sell them all, the enterprise would be profitable by a few hundred. So, Close to the Edge is now a more professional product, given the elimination of a host of spelling errors; it is less expensive; and it is available on Kindle, which is a must these days. Its sales potential may have maxed-out, but the move was the right one. It will only cost whatever I invest in copies. I don't expect any of the negative unforeseen circumstances that arise in politics. Here’s the new cover:
When the evil forces that have seized my PC ruined my Cruzer backup stick, I thought I'd lost two of my unpublished manuscript files. I recently recalled having made copies on discs, which I stored at the bottom of a desk drawer. One of the missing, American Ulysses, is there. The other, Five Cents, my first novel, is not. When I transferred them all to my computer, FC underwent drastic changes. I was 25 when I wrote it, quietly opinionated, too certain of what life was about and how it should be lived. It was reduced in size by at least one-third. Fortunately, I still have a hard copy. I also found a teleplay, Not So Black and White, I wrote for a Fox anthology created by Martin Scorsese that quickly bit the dust. Those two look like next winter's time-filler projects.
I had to break out the winter gear for today's session of the floating book shop: six layers, hat, hood, thick socks, gloves. At least it didn't rain. My thanks to Alan and Herb, who made purchases and shot the breeze. I was grateful to be able to put in two hours.
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