I’m experimenting with different lengths of preorder periods for my books. When I started self-publishing in spring 2022, I was doing a one-month preorder, but I wasn’t getting orders. So I shortened it to two weeks. Which sometimes meant I got preorders, and sometimes not.
(To be fair, some of the lack of preorders is due to my lack of saying “There’s a preorder available.” And to the lack of links in my published books… but that’s hard to sort out, and I’m working on figuring out how best to do it. I freely admit that marketing/promoting my books is by far my weakest point.)
After reading advice from several authors I know who are making a solid living from their books, I’ve decided to try putting up preorders *earlier* than a month prior to release. I’m still tweaking how much earlier, and how to best get the word out, but I’ve started with Ebb and Flow, my next novel, which will release on October 10.
Ebb and Flow is a spin-off from Real Werewolves Don’t Eat Meat, specifically Take Some Tahini, which introduces Quinn Boucher and Malachi Powers, a mated pair with obstacles including living in different countries, grieving previous partners, and Malachi being VERY unhappy that, as a werewolf who’s about 130 years old, he has a mate who’s only 22. Malachi was actually introduced in my historical paranormal male menage novella, Hooch and Howls, and when I decided Take Some Tahini would bring Tobias and Kyle to Nova Scotia, I knew Malachi would turn out to be a character in that book. But I did not know he and Quinn would turn out to be mates until they did…Sometimes my stories take on a life of their own.
Ebb and Flow picks up a few weeks after Take Some Tahini and depicts how Quinn and Malachi start building their relationship. It’s available now for Kindle preorder, and on Oct. 10 will be available for Kindle, including Kindle Unlimited, and in paperback.
The heart of the wolf yearns for his mate.
Only weeks after the massacre of half his pack, Quinn Boucher is finding his footing as a guard of the U.S. Anax, the ruler of all werewolves in the country. But something is missing: His mate Malachi. Despite whatever fate drew them together, Malachi won’t accept Quinn—and that hurts like hell.
Decades after losing his human lovers, lone wolf Malachi Powers still grieves. The last thing he needs is a mate, especially one over a century younger. But when Quinn returns to Nova Scotia to assist the Canadian Anax, they reconnect and Malachi can no longer deny their bond.
Together, Quinn and Malachi build their relationship. But there are those who want the Anax dead—and Quinn and Malachi are caught in the crossfire. Will they be torn apart before their life together can begin?
This book includes discussions of past sexual assault and depictions of grief and mourning. It also includes consensual commanding of a character and an adult character being called “boy.” This book is set in the Real Werewolves Don’t Eat Meat universe but is not a direct part of that series.