Following up on earlierannouncements, the final two books in the Bridge Daughter Cycle—Hagar’s Mother and Stranger Son—are now available for purchase on Kobo. This completes putting my back catalog up on that site. As before, all these books remain available on Amazon.
(The only book not available on Kobo yet is A Man Named Baskerville. Some time after my next book is published, I’ll probably move it over to Kobo as well.)
For more on why I’m going this route with Kobo, check out “Kobo & Me” and “Going Wide,” where I discuss the options I weighed and why I finally decided to spread my wings.
As I discussed before, I’ve been slowly moving more of my back catalog to Kobo. Two more books are now available there: Bridge Daughter and In My Memory Locked. If you’re a Kobo reader, or considering trying them out, they’re ready to go.
“Bridge Daughter is the sort of surprising gem in a sea of fairly ordinary you occasionally run across as a reader of contemporary speculative fiction—smart, highly original, and emotionally brutal.” – John Blair, author of Bright Angel and American Standard
“The thought-provoking story blends action, introspection, and social commentary in a stark but indirect critique of efforts to control female bodies and restrict reproductive rights.” – Publishers Weekly
For some time now, I’ve been planning to make my older books available on ebook platforms not named after South American rainforests. After a couple of years of putting it off—I’m a notorious procrastinator—a friend and professional acquaintance in New Zealand asked why he couldn’t get my books from Kobo, his preferred platform. That set me in motion.
(It was not my first time hearing this suggestion. A reader from Canada asked me the same question a few years back.)
The remaining novels are enrolled in an Amazon program called Kindle Select, which offers writers a number of nice features. For me, the most desirable benefit is that it places my books into Kindle Unlimited, which is a kind of Netflix-style book buffet, where subscribers can read as many books as they want for a monthly fee. KU was a great way for readers to be introduced to my work, and for awhile there I saw a lot of my books being read through that program.
Unfortunately, Kindle Unlimited readers have dwindled off for my back catalog (it tends to favor newer releases). So, as my older books fall out of Kindle Select, I’ll add them to Kobo. I’ll start moving my back catalog to Barnes & Noble and Apple Books as well. (This is called “going wide” in independent publishing circles.)
Aside from Kindle Unlimited, why did I wait so long to go wide? I’ll answer that question next time.
