Between 2015 and 2016 I self-pubbed a fantasy trilogy on Amazon. I followed it up with an unrelated trilogy, and am now working on breaking into trad publishing.
But as I become a more skilled writer I am ever more displeased with that original trilogy. I feel it suffers from some issues, most notably the fact that it was originally meant to be part of a larger body of work which I wound up not pursuing, so a whole lot of exposition and setup is completely pointless. I also just feel that I can now do a better job with the basic setup and characters, and go deeper into some of the themes I brought up in it.
I've started flirting with the idea of taking the series down from Amazon and re-doing it. Not quite from the ground up; just opening the original Word file and making improvements as I go through it, mostly keeping the same scenes but making some alterations and adding a few new ones. Oh, and I'm also thinking of getting new cover images.
Is there a precedence for basically doing a "special edition" version of already released stories? Is this all just a crazy idea?
But as I become a more skilled writer I am ever more displeased with that original trilogy. I feel it suffers from some issues, most notably the fact that it was originally meant to be part of a larger body of work which I wound up not pursuing, so a whole lot of exposition and setup is completely pointless. I also just feel that I can now do a better job with the basic setup and characters, and go deeper into some of the themes I brought up in it.
I've started flirting with the idea of taking the series down from Amazon and re-doing it. Not quite from the ground up; just opening the original Word file and making improvements as I go through it, mostly keeping the same scenes but making some alterations and adding a few new ones. Oh, and I'm also thinking of getting new cover images.
Is there a precedence for basically doing a "special edition" version of already released stories? Is this all just a crazy idea?