Hello, readers!
We're hoping to welcome many more readers not only to this site but the Empyrean Dreams universe. A print version of our first novel-for-sale, The Wreck of the Untranslatable, is in process with two different Print-on-Demand distributors. The one that you'll likely see first is CreateSpace through Amazon; we'll post a link here when the sale page goes live. The other is via IngramSpark, for eventual retail distribution (possibly including an ebook format, though that's on hold due to technical mishaps).
What's next? The second Empyrean Dreams book, Empyrean Stories, a collection of our various short stories, should be ready soon. Note that this book will include a few new stories never before published, on this site or elsewhere.
Now that I've got the formatting steps worked out, we should be able to turn out additional books even faster. There's enough material, between the site and unpublished work, for at least two more books: another Tales of the Scape Grace, and a compilation of Stchvk detective stories (my "dino-noir").
Beyond that? I just started another Scape Grace story. I might write a fourth Stchvk story and split that series into two books of two stories each. And who knows, Laine and I might get busy with another round of short stories... or finally put together the Role-Playing setting like we originally intended.
Note that we're only self-publishing because commercial publishers don't like content previously posted online. If these books get popular enough - if we sell enough copies - someone might overlook that prejudice and bring Empyrean Dreams into mainstream publication... not only for the reprints, but for new content.
We're debating whether to pull down the stories we publish, in whole or in part, to create more incentive for sales. That's only partly to make Laine and I money; some retailers might not want to stock a book readers could get elsewhere for free. We'll update once a decision has been made. Particularly note, though, that the printed versions - even for stories we've posted here - are better edited, trimmed and sharpened, and updated for consistency with the rest of the Empyrean Dreams setting. So even if we leave content here, the books are still better!
Buy them! Buy them all! Please?
-Nathan
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