UPDATE: Dragon's Fury - Breath of Fire: now available at Amazon, Barnes & Nobles & elsewhere

Dragon's Fury - Breath of Fire ^ | February 20, 2002 | Jeff Head

[Jeff Head]

The novel, Dragon's Fury - Breath of Fire, volume one of a five part series about a future Third World War between the West (the United States and our allies) and an unholy union of Red China, her allies and the fundamental Islamic Nations, continues to progress.

This thread is an update/status to those who have purchased the book and those who may have interest in the series.

To date approximately 300 novels have beend sold. Well over half of those are illustrated trade paperbacks and the rest a mixture of MSReader, AdobeReader and Activ Ebooks ... all of which are for sale at the web site, or at various stores.

Recently, all of the Hastings Books stores in the Boise area agreed to stock the book and run an "Author's Signing" day at each store through March. These include:

Hasting's Books at Overland and Five Mile, Boise, ID
Hasting's Books at Fairview and Cole, Boise, ID
Hasting's Books at Idaho and Apple, Boise, ID

I hope to extend that to all Hasting's throughout Idaho and ultimately into Utah before making a general proposal to Hastings for a larger, regional and then national stocking. Several companies that frequent gun shows have also started purchasing the book to sell and a number of other local stores are carrying the book.

The Book can also be ordered:

ONLINE AT THE WEB SITE

... or through

AMAZON BOOKS (Trade paperback, need some reviews in there)

AMAZON BOOKS (Adobe Reader, need some reviews in there)

or at:

BARNES AND NOBLES (Trade paperback, need some reviews there too)

or at B. Dalton Book stores (owned by Barnes and Nobles) (though they are not stocking it). Please use the following ISBN number:

ISBN 0-9715779-1-9

My agent with Waterside Productions continues to be very positive and has manuscripts in the hands of several large publishers.

I have started writing the second volume, "Trodden Under" and hope to produce and publish it in the May time frame.

For those interested in seeing excerpts, reading about the author (me) and reading many reviews of those who have already read the book, please click on the following picture/link.

WWW.DRAGONSFURY-BREATHOFFIRE.COM

For those who have already read the book, your comments and reviews would be very welcome. Please, either post them to this thread, or email me at the following:

Also consider entering those reviews at the Amazon and Barnes and Nobles web sites.

Again, thanks for the support and to Jim and FR for the opportunity to keep people up to date.

[Chapita]

Hey, dude! James got your book today and called me all excited that you signed it to him personally! Thanks!

[Jeff Head]

This novel says in literary and fictional sense what you said on the thread about members of the House indicating that China is still a threat.

FYI

[Jeff Head]

Glad he got it ... make sure he knows who to thank for it (you).

I hope he really enjoys it. I will be posting an excerpt from book two tomorrow here on FR.

I'll BUMP it to you.

[Jeff Head]

Thougfht you guys may be interested to know that the book is now available on Amazon at:

Amazon link for Breath of Fire

and on WHSmith (EBook only at this point) at:

Dragon's Fury - Breath of Fire on WHSmith

[Jeff Head]

Here's the latest UPDATE on the book(s).

I have an agent shopping it, but no major publisher yet.

[dheretic]

Why pray tell is an eBook going for $12? An eBook is nothing more than an encrypted binary sequence. It costs almost nothing to distribute. He could make a sizeable profit if he charged only $5 (and I as a student would buy an eBook to read now, and a dead tree copy for later reading if he'd charge like that).

[Jeff Head]

It's called a supply chain. When you are using publishers and distributors, even though it is on the net, they want a piece of the pie. I then set my own web site price accordingly, not wanting to undercut the people selling it to a broader market.

MSReader and Adobe Reader Ebooks are in fact "binary sequences" ... any electronic file is that. That does not speak to the realities of the supply chain, or the costs to get it in there.

If it was just sold through my own web site, the price would be less. To begin with it was. But, when Amazon, WHSmith, PocketPCPress, Barnes & Nobles and others began picking it up and adding their costs, and the costs of the distribution ... the price adjusted upwards. I hope the volume goes up to a point to warrant the price coming back down. Time will tell.

Hope this helps answer yyour question.