Posted on 02/20/2002 8:34:18 AM PST by 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:
... 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:
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.
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.
FYI
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.
Amazon link for Breath of Fire
and on WHSmith (EBook only at this point) at:
I have an agent shopping it, but no major publisher yet.
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.
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