The Philosophy behind Releasing Individual Pieces included in Anthologies
I’m looked at what I’d written and put together, and I re-thought my decision not to publish any of the anthology stories separately. For a long time I tossed up between publishing all or some of them separately at 99c (for pieces up to 5,000 words), $1.49 (for pieces between 5,000-10,000 words) and $1.99 (for pieces between 10,000 and 15,000 words), or just leaving them available as part of an anthology. I worried about how that might affect my readers, but, in the end, I decided to make it clear in the blurbs and on the covers of individual pieces that they could be found in an anthology and that the anthology only sold for $2.99. This way readers should be able to find the cheaper alternative. I also decided that the individual stories would all have a similar style of cover and lay-out of content to the anthologies so the link between each was easier to notice. I started out by designing the covers myself, but will go for professional covers as I can afford it. I’ve chosen the ...