Re: Warriors of Love
 

I'm thinking of creating hard covered editions of my books, to be available only on Lulu. They might work out at an affordable price. Only one way to find out.

Re: Warriors of Love
 

I've produced a cheaper than the paperback hard covered edition of Jane, by having it available only on Lulu. This will not be available from Amazon or any other outlet, but the price is very low.

Jane by P Jeffery in Science Fiction Fantasy

I make not a penny on this hard covered edition. It's as cheap as I'm allowed to make it.

I have the impression, too, that Lulu is offering free delivery to US purchasers (though you may have to buy two books to qualify for this). UK purchasers will have to pay for the postage, but £12.91 is not expensive for a 443 page hard covered book, even when one adds the shipping cost (likely to be £9.99, and making it about £5 more expensive than the "post free" paperback from Amazon).

I'm waiting to see how Jane turns out before offering other titles as minimum price hard covered books.

Re: Warriors of Love
 

I've put a short review on that new hardback page of Jane linked in the previous post.
Jane is the only novel -- of the rewritten 12-novel version of PF Jeffery's 20+ years long writing rite-of-passage that has evolved into Warriors of Love -- that I have so far read.

It deserves a wide readership.

PS: Edit: My much longer real-time review of JANE last year:
http://weirdmonger.blogspot.com/2009...f-jeffery.html

Re: Warriors of Love
 

Since posting that, I've noticed that it takes them much longer to produce a hard covered book than a paperback. I suppose that is as one might expect.

Paperbacks ship after 3-5 business days.
Hard covered volumes ship after 10-15 business days.

(Essentially, barring public holidays, that means 2-3 weeks.)

This being so, I think that I may go ahead with publishing other books as low price hard covered volumes, without waiting to receive Jane in this form.

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I have now blogged about this series of books:
http://weirdmonger.blog-city.com/jane_by_pf_jeffery.htm

Re: Warriors of Love
 

I have now issued all five of my published books in hard covers. The price of each is the minimum I'm allowed to charge (I make nothing from any of them). The prices vary because of different page counts. They are as follows:

Jane £12.91
Margaret £13.37
Tuerqui £13.42
Margaret Again £13.37
Golden Goddess and Bloody Times £8.44

The books take 2-3 weeks to print, bind and send.

Click on the link in my signature to visit my storefront.

UK purchasers need to add postage. I think that, in the USA, it is currently possible to buy any two (or more) of these post free. That's if I've understood the messages Lulu sends out correctly.

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Margaret now has a picture of the cover on UK Amazon:


For whatever reason, Jane hasn't, as yet.

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And on US Amazon:


The US Amazon price has dropped a little since I last looked.

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Last night, I discovered that both Tuerqui and Golden Goddess and Bloody Times are available on Amazon, but not under the name P F Jeffery. I'm attempting to get them to write my name the same way for all of the books. P. F. Jeff is certainly not good enough! :eek:



I don't think that Margaret Again is, as yet, available from Amazon... But I'm less certain on this point than I should be. In a perfect world, perhaps they'd have emailed me to let me know my books were now available on Amazon. In fact, I rather expected that. But no such courtesy was vouchsafed.

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All four books now display with a cover picture on Amazon.