I just put Magic's Stealing up for pre-order. Don't know how well it will sell, but I thought I'd try to keep a rough log of my process in case it helps anybody. 
My goal is to eventually make a living off of writing, but that's going to take time. My husband, Isaac, and I started our own publishing business for our books and games (Infinitas Publishing), and Magic's Stealing is the first story we're releasing. It's a young adult fantasy novella, the first in a planned trilogy (The Wishing Blade series).
We're going with Kindle and Smashwords for now, with the intent to create a print edition on Createspace once we've earned enough money to purchase a block of ten ISBNs. We're going with the free ISBNs for the ebook editions, but we want our own ISBNs for the print edition. Eventually I'd like to try getting a print edition going through Ingram Spark, as well, but that will come once we're ready to really try pushing the books into book stores.
Costwise, we're at an advantage since I'm doing our covers and formatting. I've been doing book covers for other authors and a couple small presses for a while now, and I got my Bachelor's degree in photography, with an emphasis in Photoshop, so I feel comfortable doing them myself.
Isaac primarily works on the game side of things. We're printing a tabletop card game through The Game Crafter, which is a print-on-demand game site. We've already ordered our first proof of the game and have made edits, but we need to proof the rules again and then order a new proof due to some major change in the box artwork (renamed the game due to beta tester misconceptions). Having players test the game without any previous knowledge or input from us was really helpful in seeing where our rules were lacking. Key thing we learned? Pictures are useful.
In the meantime, I plan to start writing the second book of The Wishing Blade series and continue editing The Multiverse Chronicles (Isaac writes the rough draft, I edit). The plan is to create a series of short episodes that we will release on a weekly blog, which tie into the card game. Once the season is complete, we'll put all the episodes together into a book.
I've been detailing some of this process on my blog, along with writing, and that's been helping me keep my thoughts straight. Kind of fun, too.
Eventually, we plan to release our Distant Horizon series (first book mostly polished, but we want to hire an editor for that one), along with other books in that universe.
But that's all for now. No idea if the pre-order will garner any interest or if it will fall flat, but we shall see.
My goal is to eventually make a living off of writing, but that's going to take time. My husband, Isaac, and I started our own publishing business for our books and games (Infinitas Publishing), and Magic's Stealing is the first story we're releasing. It's a young adult fantasy novella, the first in a planned trilogy (The Wishing Blade series).
We're going with Kindle and Smashwords for now, with the intent to create a print edition on Createspace once we've earned enough money to purchase a block of ten ISBNs. We're going with the free ISBNs for the ebook editions, but we want our own ISBNs for the print edition. Eventually I'd like to try getting a print edition going through Ingram Spark, as well, but that will come once we're ready to really try pushing the books into book stores.
Costwise, we're at an advantage since I'm doing our covers and formatting. I've been doing book covers for other authors and a couple small presses for a while now, and I got my Bachelor's degree in photography, with an emphasis in Photoshop, so I feel comfortable doing them myself.
Isaac primarily works on the game side of things. We're printing a tabletop card game through The Game Crafter, which is a print-on-demand game site. We've already ordered our first proof of the game and have made edits, but we need to proof the rules again and then order a new proof due to some major change in the box artwork (renamed the game due to beta tester misconceptions). Having players test the game without any previous knowledge or input from us was really helpful in seeing where our rules were lacking. Key thing we learned? Pictures are useful.
In the meantime, I plan to start writing the second book of The Wishing Blade series and continue editing The Multiverse Chronicles (Isaac writes the rough draft, I edit). The plan is to create a series of short episodes that we will release on a weekly blog, which tie into the card game. Once the season is complete, we'll put all the episodes together into a book.
I've been detailing some of this process on my blog, along with writing, and that's been helping me keep my thoughts straight. Kind of fun, too.
Eventually, we plan to release our Distant Horizon series (first book mostly polished, but we want to hire an editor for that one), along with other books in that universe.
But that's all for now. No idea if the pre-order will garner any interest or if it will fall flat, but we shall see.
