This is the cover for the upcoming Death’s Handmaiden novel, Gods and Monsters. It’s ready to publish!
Now for the bad news. Smashwords merged with Draft2Digital, and this is my first time publishing through them. The book has been submitted, but I have no idea how long it’s going to take for their publishing process to complete (Smashwords used to be basically immediate). Meanwhile, Amazon’s KDP interface appears to be down, so I haven’t even been able to submit the book there. There is no ETA for when I’ll be able to submit it.
I’m not going to say this is out until I can say you can by it somewhere, so now I’m waiting. Hopefully, this will all be resolved at some point before next week. I guess I’ll get back to writing while I wait.
Additional: You can now purchase the book from Smashwords (who pay me more anyway). The link is: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1695409. Thanks to Rainer Prem for spotting that. I’ll make a new post with all the links when I can actually publish through Amazon.
Witches and Ray-Guns 
Bummer, I even checked Smashwords to check if maybe the book was up already.
Hopefully they get this fixed quickly – both this book and the fact they are now taking longer to publish a book.
looking forward to reading it!
The book is visible, but w/o cover, and no price.
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1695409
I just checked that link and it seems to be buyable. Cover is there, as is the price.
I’ll update this post and create a new one when everything is working.
Yes. It DID work. I bought it. That was only ten minutes or so.
Hope you like it.
great, off to read.
I’m happy it’s out. Having bought your books through Amazon previously, I have to confess that until now I hadn’t realised that there was an alternative method of getting them. Not wanting to wait, so long as books bought from Smashwords can be imported into my Kindle reader I’ll get it from them.
Smashword offers the books in ePub, which can be read on any device (unlike Amazon’s monopolistic requirements).
It’s just a matter of connecting your device to your computer via USB. Then you can copy the file straight to the device. But please look up how to do it somewhere rather than taking my word for it. I’d hate for it to go wrong and for you to have problems.
The main advantage of Amazon+Kindle is that the import process is basically click-and-done. And I get a bigger audience via Amazon. They’re basically 100% of the e-publishing industry, for good or bad. Unless you own an iPhone/iPad, in which case, Apple is the only game in town. *sigh* (And monopolies are never good.)
Thanks. Yeah, I’m familiar with ePub and in the past have successfully imported ePub books into my Kindle.
i have always used smashwords, but smashwords did not publish a mobi-version this time – and the blame was laid in the author’s court! not really your doing – or?
Successfully purchased from SmashWords. Thank you!
All good things come to those who wait.
All good things come to those who wait.
You can also email a file to your Kindle. I buy many of my ebooks from Smashwords — there were five others in my cart when Gods and Monsters appeared. I downloaded all six to my linux box and then six emails with attachments.
How are you going with getting it up on Kindle?
I’m A Amazon girl thank god when it comes out there ill get it.
It’s available on the UK site now. That probably means it’s available on the US site. Others will be coming soon, I think, or may also be available.
Search for ASIN B0DV3PXGCB
I still cannot buy a mobi-version on Smashwords. What has changed there?
What’s changed is that you now publish through Draft2Digital. (There’s no option to go through Smashwords’ old system, I looked.)
The new interface doesn’t give any options about the formats, so I have no control over that.
EPUB works on Kindle, but if you’re not happy with that, wait a little to see whether they add the extra formats.
I’ll see if I can get an answer out of them in the meantime.
when i first tried to get a mobi file from smashwords they blocked it with the comment that the author had not released it as mobi file
I run calibre (freely downloadable) which will convert between many formats. I usually convert .doc and .odt files to .epub because I prefer reading on my Kindle to the computer.
I used to use that for converting file types. It’s good, but I don’t generally need it now.
No news on the Amazon thing. It seems that I can’t really access anything on the KDP site at the moment. It’s all broken. Which is not good.
I’m going to try a few things today since waiting for Amazon to do their thing is likely to take a while, but I’m not very hopeful.
Sorry.
Everyone cross your fingers…
Not if you’re driving or anything…
ASIN: B0DV3PXGCB
You probably won’t be able to buy it just yet, but soon.
Thanks all the gods!
It should now be out in all Amazon regions.
Just purchased through Amazon US. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DV3PXGCB
When you posted this was coming out I started re-reading the series. I’m in the middle of Loyalty now so will start G&M in a few days.
Got it Saturday read it Saturday. Looking for #9. Where could it be?
*whimper* I just did seven and eight one after the other. I need a break!
Also, I don’t have the plot for number nine at all figured out, so it may be a while.