This is an update from my last post.
I have officially decided that I will not be publishing book one of Olympic Fates to either Kindle Vella or any other subscription platform. It was hard to make this choice because I was excited to experiment with some of the other publishing platforms out there, but the reality is that there are too many for me to research to try and find the right platform for my series. I did find one that was good for romance fiction, which is what this new series is, but I couldn't find any information regarding the rights to my work or if I could take the book and still publish it to ebook and paperback. So, I decided to manage my expectations and give up on this serialized goal for this series.
Instead, I will be publishing straight to ebook and paperback. Truthfully, I feel like this will be the better choice anyway. I am extremely busy in my day-to-day life; I work a full time admin job in the construction field, I'm also actively working on my sequel novel to A Kiss of Glass as well as continuously writing and revising poems and submitting them for publication, and I spend hours every day working on marketing my books and trying to widen my online platform. It's not easy and it is time consuming and I think publishing to a serial platform would have taken a lot more time than I'm prepared to give at the moment.
Moreover, I've had some great success with my debut novel. In the 7.5 months that it's been published, I've had over 12,000 page reads and sold over 700 copies. If I had another book released, those numbers could actually go up exponentially. And one of the most important things we can do as indie authors is develop our backlog of books. The more books you have that are of equal or better quality than the books before it, the more potential you have to really make money.
With all of that said, I am officially announcing the title of the first book of my Olympic Fates Saga (I changed the title once I realized I wasn't going to be publishing it to KV anymore):
The Olympic Fates Saga: Origins Duology Book One: The Duke of Ithaca.
My plan is to release this book at the end of April/beginning of May. It depends on how quickly I can complete the last two drafts. The manuscript is in the hands of my beta readers now, and once I receive their feedback, I will be working on the fourth draft. Then there will be a final edit and proofread (assuming I don't have to add too much to the manuscript), and it will be ready for publication.
I am beyond excited to see this book in people's hands. Honestly, it feels amazing to be this close to yet another book release. You know how people say that if you get one tattoo, you'll get addicted and need more? Yeah, that's how releasing a book feels. It's like my mind and heart know that this is what I've always been meant to do, and so every time it happens, it feels like my very existence acknowledges the accomplishment. Almost like leveling up, in a way.
My goal is for the second book in this series to be released some time in September or October. This is going to be a busy year. The audiobook of A Kiss of Glass comes out next month. The Duke of Ithaca comes out April/May. A Shift of Crimson will come out in either June or July. And then The second Olympic Fates book will come out in September/October. That's just...a fuckton of releases for my second year as an indie author. And I am so excited for every second of it!
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