Burdens of the dead, my last-ever on the three way collaborations with Mercedes Lackey, and Eric Flint (I am doing two others with Eric) is due for release on the 4th of June.

The picture is an Amazon link, if you click through to Amazon on it, I get 6% FROM AMAZON (not extra from the customer).

It’s the fifth book in the HEIRS OF ALEXANDRA series. (Shadow of the Lion, A Mankind Witch, This Rough Magic, and Much Fall of Blood preceed it.)

I had the rights back for A MANKIND WITCH (which stands quite well alone)
revert to me and I put it up on Kindle a few months back, and it’s been interesting to see how it is selling – compared to shorts and THE FORLORN. It has sold slightly over 40 copies a month, which is not going to make me wealthy overnight, but I am pleased with. If it keeps it up it means I’m earning more royalty money in six months than I did in total (yes, it did earn its advance but the paper back print was small, and not reprinted), so that is a good thing. THE FORLORN sold about half that. It is sf (which doesn’t sell as well for me), and has been available for free on Baen Free Library, and isn’t a part of a series. I’ve yet to put a new adult novel up (Without a Trace – which is MG doesn’t appear to sell much),
and I would be very curious to see how that compares. I’ll report back when I have figures.

On this subject -this is a link to a guest post on how the above has been affecting authors by Judith Tarr (part two and part three on these links) on CE Murphy’s site (and this is a link to CE Murphy’s very interesting post that sparked it all – to those of you taking a professional interest in writing as career choice not a hobby.

And for those of you following the price-fixing/collusion saga — http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/digital-media/10097162/Apple-fights-to-dismiss-evidence-in-ebook-price-fixing-row.html

And now I must return to my attempt to make Smashword love me. I sometimes miss mummy and daddy… but I need the money.