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Post by limeyf on Nov 18, 2012 19:37:44 GMT
Hey Dave, hope you and Mike are looking to get Rouge Lawman coz cannot get the series on Kindle
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Post by guinnesskid on Nov 19, 2012 6:32:50 GMT
Don't usually pick up on typos/spelling mistakes but the Red Lawman made me laugh. still tittering to myself
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Post by benbridges on Nov 19, 2012 11:19:13 GMT
Are you sayin' the Rogue Lawman wears rouge? Them's fightin' words!! But it does show how easy it is for these typos to creep in. All we can do is keep them at an absolute minimum. I remember Manor Books used to be pretty notorious -- it was nothing for a character to fall to his 'keens' (not knees), or land flat on his shoulder-baldes (not blades).
As for the price of the Herne books ... this was set by the agent representing the authors, Laurence James and John Harvey. There is a feeling within the publishing business that if you sell cheap, you somehow devalue the writer's work. I don't know that this was the thinking with the aforementioned agent, but it does seem to be a widely-held belief in publishing in general. Our view is that if you price a book realistically, you get it to a wider readership, and therefore enable to writer to succeed in his ultimate aim ... which is simply to be read.
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Post by limeyf on Nov 19, 2012 13:53:17 GMT
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Post by john on Nov 19, 2012 15:02:22 GMT
Thanks for the answer regarding the price! I appreciate it.
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Post by bodie on Nov 20, 2012 21:52:36 GMT
Well, it's good that you can see the funny side. The funniest typo I ever spotted was in Mike Linaker's book INCIDENT AT BUTLER'S STATION ... and this was in the Black Horse Western version, not our ebook reissue. The sentence should have read, "Katy shivered as the cold water came in contact with her smooth flesh, pale and white except where the sun had caught her face and arms." It actually came out as, "Katy shivered as the cold water came in contact with her smooth flesh, pale and white except where the sun had caught her face and anus.
Incredibly, in another Mike Linaker book, the same mistake appeared again, where a girl riding behind our hero did not "wrap her arms around him" but somehow managed to "wrap her anus around him! That made for an interesting picture.
Guys I've been handed a bum rap!!
MikeL
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Post by benbridges on Nov 21, 2012 11:05:59 GMT
Now now, Mike -- don't make an ass of yourself!
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Post by benbridges on Nov 22, 2012 8:30:57 GMT
Ian -- here's the cover we've been waiting on for the December line-up. As you can see, Cody Wells has provided another eye-catcher. Attachments:
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Post by benbridges on Nov 22, 2012 11:08:49 GMT
Cheesy, I know, but you gotta spread the word somehow! Attachments:
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Post by benbridges on Nov 22, 2012 15:16:35 GMT
By the way, guys, we've taken your comments re the pricing on HERNE to heart and had words with the powers-that-be, who have okayed a REDUCTION in price for the next Herne, in December. It will be the same price as all the other titles.
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Post by john on Nov 22, 2012 18:24:21 GMT
That's a great cover! Even though I own the title, I can't wait to get it as an e-book. And that's cool about the pricing. The squeaky wheel gets the oil! Haha.
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Post by john on Nov 28, 2012 18:30:58 GMT
February 2013... I noticed a new BODIE is scheduled. However, there's still a blank cover. Can you tell me if this will be the fourth CROW book? I'd certainly appreciate it.
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Post by benbridges on Nov 29, 2012 8:13:33 GMT
No, our fourth book for February is going to be Thomas McNulty's excellent stand-alone western, DEATH RIDES A PALOMINO, which will be the fourth book in the ongoing Piccadilly Publishing Presents series. The fourth CROW is scheduled for March, where it will be published alongside GALVESTON by Kent Conwell (the first of his Tony Boudreaux mysteries), LOU PROPHET 2: DEALT THE DEVIL’S HAND by Peter Brandvold, IRON EYES THE AVENGER by Rory Black, and BRAND 4: HIGH COUNTRY KILL by Neil Hunter. You'll notice there are still a couple of blank covers in the line-up for January. That's because we're still awaiting the covers for David Stuart Davies' Sherlock Holmes novel THE TANGLED SKEIN, and CALEB THORN 1: THE FIRST SHOT by L J Coburn.
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Post by john on Nov 29, 2012 15:01:23 GMT
Okay, thanks. I guess I can wait the extra month! And that's cool you're going to be releasing CALEB THORN. I'll buy that series.
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Post by limeyf on Nov 29, 2012 18:45:40 GMT
So will I
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