Update

I'm still plugging away at several mystery titles, hoping to have them finished by January 1.

I've been fooling around with Facebook, created a page for Coachwhip, (only a few covers on it right now), but haven't added a link from the main site yet. Maybe this weekend.

Thematic Strategy

I have a range of books I am working on in different stages. One thing I particularly am looking for are small groups of thematically related books. The idea being, similar books help sell each other, and of course a customer who likes one book may be more willing to buy another from the same publisher.

I haven't done much with Lancaster County material, though I've been back in the area for about seven years. I should have a few books coming out by a local author/speaker that are of some regional interest (and he'll be selling direct, which will be the bulk of sales). He has a few local natural history subjects, another on the county's covered bridges, and I'm trying to talk him (and his wife) into an authentic Pennsylvania Dutch cookbook.

I'm a bit behind in my personal cryptozoology titles, but I need to bolster my monthly sales first before spending all that time putting together titles with a limited market.

Index Page Covers

OK -- turns out I prefer all the covers on the index page. I reorganized it a little bit, but after looking over a few other sites with decent SEO, it doesn't appear that numerous small images on the front page are a problem. People don't mind scrolling, apparently.

Other news -- I got sidetracked again on another theme... Looks like I'll be putting out a few single-author anthologies of classic mysteries. (Raffles, the Thinking Machine, Poe's Dupin, maybe a few more.)

LSI Interview

For those keeping up with the POD industry, here's an interesting interview with Lightning Source President David Taylor. Changes are par for the course with print-on-demand, and it looks like publishers will have more options in the future.