April '25 Vote - Whole Series Here First?
Added 2025-04-13 15:39:34 +0000 UTC
If you read this month's newsletter you'll have seen what I planned to ask your opinion about this time around. I'm looking ahead to the next ebook series (although it's still some way off), and trying to decide in advance whether I should change the way I did things last around.
If you remember, with 'Black Marks', I published only the first few chapters on here in advance of launch on Amazon. I'm thinking that next time, I might make the whole books of a new series available for a short period before launching each on the retailers.
What this would potentially mean for you (as well as being able to read the complete book in advance), is that the Lanie story would be paused for a longer period each time while I put more new series chapters up here as they're edited. The Lanie story would resume in between each new ebook for a week or two, while a series is in progress.
From my point of view, although I'd probably lose out on some income from sales of the Kindle versions (or whatever sites I later sell them on), it could ease the workload levels a little while a series is in progress.
I have an opinion on this, but am interested in hearing what you guys think.
So...
Cast your vote and add any comments or suggestions you might have in the comments below! The poll will run until the end of this month.
Comments
Hi Marco, I understand what you're saying. I don't think you're confused about the potential impact on the Lanie chapters. If this change were made, they would pause for longer while the new series chapters were put out. I guess the benefits for Patreon readers would be that they wouldn't necessarily have to buy the ebook because they could read it all on here as part of their membership. And for me, it could probably ease my workload a little when a series is in progress. The poll is pretty close at the moment...
Tinto
2025-04-17 11:45:37 +0000 UTCI voted to keep it as it is, and here is my rationale. I am going to buy your book on Amazon anyway, and if you post the entire series here, there will be less new content since there will be a longer pause for the Richmond/Lanie universe. As it stands now, when the new series is released, it is almost like a bonus treat of something new we get once every couple of months. If the complete story were on here, I would read that and then have nothing new to read for a longer period of time. As of now, we usually only have two or three week break between Lanie chapters. I wouldn't want the Lanie series to pause for 6-8 weeks while a story I was already going to buy on Amazon is released. Anyway, that is my opinion, but I could be completely confused about what your poll means for Lanie chapters.
Marco
2025-04-17 08:08:53 +0000 UTC
