JA Konrath Makes an Offer to Indie Stores: Become Publishers Like Amazon.com

How can you boycott the books of such a great writer? Do not hate such a classic guy!

JA Konrath signed with Thomas and Mercer. And a group of booksellers threaten to boycott and return some of his books. The problem is that the indie publishers are realizing that Amazon is making huge gains on their territory.

Keep in mind that JA Konrath has been wroking greatly with the booksellers. According to his own recollection, he does not consider himself the enemy they are portraying him to be. He has been very grateful to the booksellers. This is what he wrote on his own blog, "a Newbie's guide to publishing"

"So signing a deal with Amazon makes me the enemy of bookstores?

Me, who has signed at over 1200 bookstores? Who has thanked over 1500 booksellers by name in the acknowledgements of my novels? Who has named five major characters in my series after booksellers?"


So the author and co-author Joe want to make a deal to the Indie stores that they should not turn down.

"Between Joe and I, we have over twenty book-length works available. If you'd like to publish any of them and sell them out of your store, contact us. We'll give you an 85% royalty, send you our already formatted interiors and covers, and you can print and sell as many as you'd like. Or we can do the printing, and ship them to you signed, and give you the same 40% discount the major NY Publishers give you per book.

These are trade paperbacks, 9"x6", priced at $13.95.

Our titles include:
65 Proof (Collected Stories)
Shot of Tequila
Disturb
Trapped
Endurance
Origin
The List
Suckers
Jack Daniels Stories (Collected Stories)
Horror Stories (Collected Stories)
Flee
Draculas
Banana Hammock
Run
Desert Places
Locked Doors
Serial Uncut
Killers Uncut
Famous
Serial Killers Uncut
Fully Loaded (Collected Stories)
Thicker Than Blood"

Just like any writer, JA Konrath's goals are to write books that his fans want and to make a decent living doing so. Who can be against such a prolific writer?

By the way, here is a list of the books (novels) written by this great contemporary author: (Search on Google or Amazon with their ISBN)

Endurance (2010) - Under the pseudonym Jack Kilborn ISBN 1453885684
Trapped (2010) - Under the pseudonym Jack Kilborn ISBN 1453806024
Shaken (2010) - 7th in Jack Daniels series
Cherry Bomb (2009) - 6th in Jack Daniels series
Afraid (2008) - Under the pseudonym Jack Kilborn
Fuzzy Navel (2008) - 5th in Jack Daniels series ISBN 1401302807
Dirty Martini (2007) - 4th in Jack Daniels series ISBN 1401302793
Rusty Nail (2006) - 3rd in Jack Daniels series ISBN 140130088X
Bloody Mary (2005) - 2nd in Jack Daniels series ISBN 0786890746
Whiskey Sour (2004) - 1st in Jack Daniels series ISBN 078689072X

Find out more on the author's blog

Welcome to UrbanFantasyPublishing: This is Where You Can Find The Hottest Romance Novels and Urban Fairy Tales

Welcome to UrbanFantasyPublishing, The OtherWorld Romance Novel and eFairy Tales Publishing!

Those of us who are familiar with this subset of the romance category know it is made popular mostly by Charles de Lint, Neil Gaiman and Emma Bull.  In many areas, it is referred to as "fanfiction, surrealist stories, faeries, fairy tales."  All of us will agree that this genre is mostly populated by the faeries and denizens of the otherworlds where ordinary things, people, and objects take on a much larger significance. 

Many critics and literary luminaries say that this genre, created around the 1980s represents the boundaries and borderland separating the known world from the supernatural, fantastic and unknown worlds.  This is why we feel so interested in finding out, exploring what else may lie there, anywhere out there.

With Urban Fantasy Publishing, our readers will be able to relate to the settings, environment which the characters inhabit.  We find some of these famous characters in Tolkien's Middle Earth.  His and other fantasy books such as The Lord of the Rings represent some of the best in the field. Human beings have always been attracted to faeries and elves, vampires and zombies, werewolves and trolls etc.  The most interesting thing that urban fantasy does is to place these characters in our contemporary, modern worlds.

In UrbanFantasyPublishing, we will be focusing mostly on shapeshifting, future borderworlds, vampires and otherworld creatures and denizens.  We want to release books that will interest the Young Adult categories.  In the end, we want to publish books that most readers can enjoy.

The Finest Stories Written by one of Our Favorite Fantasy Writers, Charles de Lint

Here is my favorite collection by Charles de Lint: Keep in mind that you can order it online. 

The tales, the presses, publishers and the magazines that published them:

Waifs and Strays was nominated for a 2002 World Fantasy Award.

"Tamson House, Ottawa, Ontario" [from Chapter Three: Mystical Buildings and Other Structures; Moonheart]	Mysterious North America, ed. Christy Riddell, East Street Press, 1989
"Merlin Dreams in the Mondream Wood" [Moonheart]	Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine Issue 7, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Pulphouse, 1990
"Ottawa and the Valley"
"There's No Such Thing"	Vampires, ed. Jane Yolen & Martin H. Greenberg, HarperCollins, 1991
"Sisters"	original to this collection
"Fairy Dust"	A Wizard's Dozen, ed. Michael Stearns, Harcourt Brace, 1993
"A Wish Named Arnold"	Spaceships & Spells, ed. Jane Yolen, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, Harper & Row, 1987
"Wooden Bones"	Things That Go Bump in the Night, ed. Jane Yolen & Martin H. Greenberg, Harper & Row, 1989
"Otherworlds: Past and Future"
"The Graceless Child"	Halflings, Hobbits, Warrows and Weefolk, ed. Baird Searles & Brian Thomsen, Warner, 1991
"A Tattoo on Her Heart"	Pulphouse: The Hardback Magazine Issue 8, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Pulphouse, 1990
"Bordertown"
"Stick" [Borderland]	Borderland, ed. Terri Windling & Mark Alan Arnold, Signet, 1986
"May This Be Your Last Sorrow" [Borderland]	The Essential Bordertown, ed. Terri Windling & Delia Sherman, Tor, 1998
"Newford: In and Out of the City"
"One Chance"	Werewolves, ed. Jane Yolen & Martin H. Greenberg, Harper & Row, 1988
"Alone"
"But for the Grace Go I" [Newford]	Chilled To the Bone, ed. Robert T. Garcia, Mayfair Games, 1991
"Ghosts of Wind and Shadow" [Newford]	Triskell Press, 1990
"Waifs and Strays" [Newford]	Journeys to the Twilight Zone, ed. Carol Serling & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1993
"Somewhere in My Mind There Is a Painting Box"	The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking, 2002