It appears Kari and I have finally updated our website design, and set up a brand-new store for Spiral Publishing, Ltd!
Yes, after eight years, we took the plunge and tried out an actual modern solution for our writing business. Our Shopify store officially launches Monday, November 27, 2023!
We’re (dare I say) utterly stoked about the new online digs! After years of dreading anything to do with updating my old WordPress site, I’m finally enjoying this side of the biz again. Shopify is simply delightful to work with.
The store is still a work in progress, with improvements happening daily. But we decided to not let perfect be the downfall of good, and will open our digital doors on schedule. As a welcoming gift to our readers, all ebooks in our store will be 50% off until the ball drops in Times Square this New Year!
Now, you might be wondering why you should buy books direct from the authors, instead of through some other site (looking at you, Amazon). It’s quite simple, really. When you buy direct from the writer, the writer earns a bigger slice of the retail price pie. Which means we don’t have to work as hard on promotion, sales, all that sort of stuff. Which means we have more time to grub around in the squirrel gardens of our imaginations, writing more stuff to fill our readers’ story gullets.
At the moment, we are only offering direct sales of ebooks. Direct sales of print books will happen in the near future, so stay tuned for that. In the meantime, each major book (novels, novellas, collections, anthologies) on the site will have a button to take you to the print (or ebook) vendor of your choice. We offer print via Amazon, Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, Powell’s, and others. You can also order Large Print editions of most of our major works, if your eyes are a bit vintage, like mine.
For now, print versions of our individual short stories are only available through Amazon. Again, we hope to change that down the road.
So check out the brand-spankin’-new Spiral Publishing store, and pick up some new reading material! Remember, all the ebooks are half-price through the end of the year. And hey, if you want to give someone in your life the gift of reading for the Midwinter gift-giving holiday you celebrate, any of our titles can be gifted, and we offer electronic gift cards if you want them to make up their own minds on what to read!
Thank you for stopping by to read my sweet holiday story Andrew and Shichi-Go-San! Alas, the free week is over, much like the holiday season for 2020.
