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Paperbacks Now Available Outside of Amazon
All of my books in paperback form are now wide, which means you can purchase them through other websites like Barnes and Noble as well as request for then to be stocked by your local Walmart (can also be purchased in their online store too), Library, or book store that uses the Ingram distribution services.
Depending how this goes, I am considering going wide with my ebooks again, but I do have a lot of KU readers as well. I will continue to monitor the numbers and requests in order to make that decision in the future. Kobo has recently launched a subscription program similar to KU but does not force authors to be exclusive like Amazon does. This might be the route I take down the road.
Thank you all for the love and support!
Future Plans as of April 2023
For those not fans of Amazon, I am looking at going wide with my physical books. Paperback and hard covers not purchased through Amazon will look a bit different, if not better, but it is going to take a bit of work and I am trying to figure out the technicalities.
If ever I find a generous benefactor, ISBNs in the US can only be purchased via Bowker and the best deal is 100 for $575 (individual ones cost over $100 each, so the bulk is my eventual goal). This will save me so many nightmares. I may consider doing a patreon or Kickstart program and offering free signed copies, bookmarks etc to people who donate in order to possibly get to the point of owning my ISBNs (currently, technically, Amazon owns them).
There is so much legal mumbo jumbo to explain, but I am working on a DBA for Amanda Leanne and Munesquill and then a sole proprietor and maybe, way down the road if I get big enough, an LLC. So far anyone I have attempted to get to work with me has flaked out, so I don’t know about doing LLC at this juncture. But my sales are rising to the point of having to start to establish some things.
Signed copies and book boxes (signed copies with goodies and a discount for more than one book) will be coming soon. Ad well as posisble merchandise such as shirts or totes with some of my covers and art work. I am also getting a digital drawing pad and Kris and I will be doing some creepy art to add to the images I currently own. Should be fun!
Anyways, lots to consider in the future and lots coming down the line. I hope for the best that my health participates, as it is the biggest hang up often. I have a functioning modern laptop so there will be some reformists done on the current books available. This may result in some books losing reviews (like Shafows Through the Fog that Amazon was nice enough to change the paper quality from cream to white on my last update when I was having issues).
The future will look cooler and has lots of fun potential. I thank you all for your dedication, love, and support! Biggest hugs and so much love to you all!
Pic is of our eldest cat being dramatic, our Luna.
New Page on the Site for Classic Reads
I have created a new page under the Fiction tab for some of my favorite stories and poems, as well as others that are available, that are public domain. This means that these stories are old enough that they are freely available for anyone to read online. I hope you enjoy the selection and find use in the links to sites like Project Gutenberg and other freely available literature.
You can navigate via the Fiction tab or here.
Amanda Leanne Status and Issues
This is an announcement to clarify some things and go into some issues that Amanda has been having lately.
If you are familiar with the author, she has a lot of health problems and disabilities. Recently she has been very, very ill and ended up in the hospital. She is back home and recovering but there are some complications and she may end up back in the hospital.
This page has been contacted by several people and organizations requesting copies of her books as donations, some specifying signed copies, for auctions, reviews, and other purposes. Amanda publishes her physical books through a print on demand site. She is her own publisher (Mune’s Quill). This is an extremely low budget business with currently only one nonfiction and 3 fictional books under her name and brand that she has full rights to. Due to disabilities and lack of funding to put into her writing business, she operates on a minimal budget. It cost her money to order books. It takes time to get them. It costs twice as much for her to then send them out. As much as she loves helping people and working with charities, she can not afford to buy stacks of books, sign them, and then mail them out to people for free. She has given away over 1200 ebooks and often runs free promos 1 to 3 times a year on her ebooks where they can be “purchased” for free.
With her current health status, I was a bit appalled at how pushy some got with telling me how to get her to send them free books or even name plates. She is under a lot of stress and is having a rough time. This came off as highly disrespectful and rude. I was polite in informing people of her condition and situation and the return was more pushing asking for freebies and action for a caring but ill person.
Thank you to all who follow and support her and definitely to those who read her works. The best support she can get is having people purchase her books and tell people about them. She makes less than a dollar on each book sale (ebook and paperback) because she keeps her prices low and affordable as much as she can for those who want to read her books.
As for signed copies, she has wanted to purchase a small amount of her books and get name plates and have them signed and sell them on her website for those wanting such a thing. She hopes to eventually have the funding to get book marks and other author merchandise and to do giveaways and so forth (a common trend on social media). But currently this is not feasible for her budget.
She is a private person and this is not something she would usually want said or put out there, but she is under enough stress and so I (a friend who sometimes posts and manages things when she is unavailable) am asking for understanding, patience, and respect.
Thank you all so much.
M.W.
Amanda Leanne 