OOC: The Wrath of Trees

[sythyry]

Mirrored from Sythyry.

On a world devastated by the importation of alien grasses, Melyl is an intelligent, telepathic tree who can eavesdrop on the minds of anyone who eats her berries. She was kidnapped, enslaved, and forced to use her powers to spy on her master’s rival nations. It won’t be long before she is discovered, uprooted, and burned as another invader. But how can she free herself when she is rooted in her kidnapper’s garden?

After far too long, my non-World-Tree novel The Wrath of Trees is available, with spiffy cover art and some interior illustrations by the amazing Tod Wills.

You can get it on Amazon in paperback
or a whole lot cheaper in Kindle format.
Or, you can get the paperback on CreateSpace here for the same price but more of it goes to me.

Comments

[rowyn]

*purchases her first Kindle book*

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Woot!

[draconis.livejournal.com]

Bought! (Also kindle.)

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[barberio.livejournal.com]

Bought... Something to read on my train trip later this week...

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

Yay!

Now I just have to force myself to finish 'Veracity' so I can read something else on my Kindle. I hate it when I get stuck behind a book that's almost but not quite bad enough for me to stop in the middle. x.x

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

That can be pretty dangerous. This year I have been merciless with books, though.

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Now you can send Amazon a ticket telling them to link the paperback and kindle versions so that the reviews/stars assigned to one will also show up on the other page. :)

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Oif. Thank you!

[calamitous-cani.livejournal.com]

(Having a very hard time warehousing books right now, and my ereader is Sony, not Kindle. Kindles have behaviors that could potentially damage my career, so they're off the table. Very frustrating.)

(Wish it was available in epub, but you probably have legal issues from Amazon of some sort about other file formats? I'd rather not have to resort to DRM-stripping, since that's not particularly legal (even if there are a few thousand tutorials on how to do it))

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

It is a helpful thing! Otherwise people who Only Buy Books of One Format will see the one and get grumpy because the Other Kind isn't available. :)

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

Amazon doesn't have a legal issue with you selling the book in other formats; there is nothing stopping sythyry from selling it on Smashwords, or even to you directly in any file format you want!

However, as long as sythyry's set the thing to DRM-free, you should probably be able to buy it from Amazon and convert it to whatever format you wish. Amazon does not force publishers to DRM their offerings, it's a choice.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

I can sell it on SmashWords, but my first attempt to put it up there broke all the pictures and some other formatting. I know how to fix the formatting, though I don't know about the pictures. I'll take another stab at it.

Kindle has a free app for desktops. I don't know if that would damage your career or not.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

If I had the option in a place where I could see it, I set it to DRM-free.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

I daresay this has bitten you already!

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

It is under step #5, "Upload Your Book File." There's a place where it says:

Select a digital rights management (DRM) option:
* Enable digital rights management
* Do not enable digital rights management

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

It was a little annoying, yes. -_-

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

I remembered the option, but I didn't remember which site it was on...

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

I imagine the kindle one! I don't think there is DRM-encoding at Createspace. >.>

[alamaris.livejournal.com]

Glee! Another novel!

Out of curiosity, will you ever be releasing Kindle editions of your other works?

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Glee!

I don't know about /Marriage of Insects/ and /World Tree RPG/; the publisher has the rights.

Sythyry -- maybe. It's on-line anyhow.

/Mating Flight/ and such -- not really done yet.

[calamitous-cani.livejournal.com]

(Save for that it doesn't support my OS.)

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Oif. I'll try to put it on SmashWords when I can.

[deor.livejournal.com]

*snag*

[terrana.livejournal.com]

Intercontinental shipping costs make my bank account sad.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry. Does Amazon.uk have it?

And I'm not a bit unhappy if you want to get the ebook version. I will have it up in many formats as soon as I can manage, if kindle doesn't wokr for you.

[terrana.livejournal.com]

Having to get an ebook reader would entirely negate the saving of shipping costs, and I'd prefer an actual book anyhow. It'll just have to wait for a couple of months until I have money!

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Kindle, at least, has a free desktop app, I believe. Though I certainly love physical books myself.

[calamitous-cani.livejournal.com]

(So get an ebook reader program for your computer. They're generally free.)

[deor.livejournal.com]

I'm having a problem with the formatting on the Kindle version. Every so often it will lose part of a line. I can see the end if I change to a smaller font size, but then the font is too small to read comfortably. (I usually use the medium font setting.)

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Give me another clue or two -- a couple of lines which have that problem -- and I will see what I can do.

[goldkin.livejournal.com]

Some preliminary feedback for this wonderful experiment-in-progress, via my Kindle edition:

- The Kindle edition sorely needs a Table of Contents.

I'm using bookmarks to page through the chapters and prependix currently, which is somewhat less elegant than what the Kindle normally provides. It wouldn't necessarily be spoilery either, given its additional ability to start readers at an arbitrary location in the book.

- The prependix looks great on my Kindle 2 and 2011, but it suffers some formatting problems with its table on the Fire.

... as bugs with the Kindle's table algorithm cheerfully crash its display layer on the 2 and freeze it on the 2011. That's normal, though.

- The illustrations show up just fine on the Fire, 2011, and the 2, with color highlights showing through nicely on the former and good quality grayscale on the two latter.

No problems there!

I'll have more notes if I run into any additional mechanical considerations. So far, the content is otherwise coming through just fine, and that's the important bit.

[deor.livejournal.com]

It's very odd - if I change fonts and back again, the text looks fine. Then I hit another section that drops part of a sentence, and the same thing: if I change fonts and scroll and change back, the error is gone from that particular page.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

That's peculiar. Could you give me a pointer to a section that does it? I will see if I can get any help from Amazon about it. Or, if you send me your email, I'll send you a differently-built Kindle version and see if it does the same.