publishing

ETA: Books2Read link corrected.

The collected skin-singer stories are now on their way to publication! I just pushed the buttons for the ebook and POD versions at Draft2Digital a few minutes ago. (I need to set up Kindle separately, so I haven't done that quite yet.) Official release date will be August 10 (assuming I did that correctly at the website).

This is my first professional (i.e., for-sale) self-published fiction, so I've been picking up a lot of new skills and experiences along the way. I worked with a fabulous cover artist: The Illustrated Page Book Design (Sarah Waites).

This is the third year that I’ve taking a statistical look at the state of the sapphic historical publishing, based on the new book listings included in the podcast, as well as my database of earlier publications.

As regular readers (all six of you) know, every month my podcast does a round-up show that includes a list of new and forthcoming lesbian-relevant historicals (including historic fantasy). I get the content from three primary methods: 1) Buzz on the net; 2) Searching on Amazon using "released after" and keywords = "lesbian" + "historic"; and the topic of today's blog 3) checking the websites of those publishers who release relevant books often enough that they're worth checking individually.