Yes, It's Been A While...

I know that the re-edit was supposed to be out by now, but there were a few set backs. 

I won't go into the finer details, but to put it bluntly, there has been a bit of a falling out between me and Erudite Small Press as I knew it. Well, the person at least.

When I met Alan Taylor, he promised me riches and thought the book would sell millions. That as i found out is only possible through lots and lots of advertising, which Erudite doesn't have a budget for at all. The little advertising that has been put into the book and has resulted in a decent amount of sales, has been done out of my pocket directly. That is the main reason for what has taken place.

There has been a private settlement made after I brought legal charges against Erudite Small Press. Things such as miss handling of books during the shipping process that resulted in scratches. Several books that have not been accounted for and therefor never paid for, have come up. And lastly, the editing. Now I know that I am not the best at self editing, I will honestly admit that. However, you would think an English major would be. Yes, it was a big book, but there were still hundreds of typos missed. It has been a failing point of some of the lesser reviews.

I am happy to say that all these problems have been taken care of, in a way. I now own Erudite Small Press. Yes, that's right, after the settlement, I came away with the keys to the small kingdom as it will. This means that I own all my rights again, and am no longer under contract. This also means that I can hire any editor I want. And Jimmy Blake is the one that has already edited the re-edit at this point and done a wonderful job.

The down side of this is that my knowledge of the publishing world is limited. In a normal scenario, this would mean another delay in the next few books coming out while I catch up. However I have found a way to make things a bit easier. Since the book, Demon Vampire has been split into three volumes, Demon Vampire, Bloodlines, and Ascension; and the book has already been published under Erudite, I will be using the same Amazon services they used to release the book, except with one addition, Print On Demand. It was discussed a while ago when I wan signing the first contract, but it was dismissed because it didn't make them enough money. Now that I own Erudite, I'm willing to make the sacrifice. The books will be available as follows:

Demon Vampire Vol.1: $6.99 Kindle/ $8.99 Print
Bloodlines           Vol.2: $7.99 Kindle/ $9.99 Print
Ascension            Vol.3: $8.99 Kindle/ $10.99 Print
SSR 1192             Vol.4: $4.99 Kindle/ $6.99 Print

Yes, that's right, the book will only be $2.00 more than the ebook, making it very affordable to buy in print now. Especially versus the old price of $18.97. This way, you can enjoy the book at your pace and buy as you finish them.

As far as Redgold Vol.5 of The Redgold Series, the one that everyone has been waiting for, I will still be entertaining the idea of an outside publisher. Mainly, I want my book in Barnes & Noble and Walmart, something that is difficult right now through Erudite.

As all this goes forward, you can rest assured that the books will only get better. I will be using several professional editors from now on and the difference will be felt with the release of the first re-edit.

Thank you for your time in reading this and supporting my writing career. Don't forget to sign up for the newsletter, join the blog, add me on good reads, and like me on facebook.

Sincerely,

Virgil Allen Moore
http://demonvampire.com/

Two Weeks

I am on the last few pages of the re-edit. I give it about two weeks, and it will be out. 

So far, the little additions to the books, small ways of describing things, the two extra chapters, and the complete overhaul of the current flow of the chapters.

The changes you can expect are great, but they won't take away from what you already loved about the story. To address each, here's a list of some of the alterations.

There were a few confusing ways in which I worded a few descriptions. I tend to use overly poetic ways of telling a situation and that tends to lend multiple ways of interpreting the scene I'm painting. Though I kept the end descriptions, I either added a few lines to make them easier to read, or reworked the flow of the sentence to make it easier to the reader in general.

The Sub Chapters Red and Black have gone far better than I had imagined. The two dream sequences were able to be placed in a way that gives of beautiful and needed extra connection between Zack and Kyli.

The first edition of Demon Vampire had fifteen chapters for the 10.5 times new roman font 500 page small border book. It was packed far too tight for even the more gilded readers that have loved the book so far. That is one of the biggest changes, More Chapters. I will should be adding at least two more chapters to what I already have and that will put the first Demon Vampire book at about Twenty Chapters. Now I know that you're thinking, five more chapters isn't a whole lot more than fifteen, but you have to remember, this is just part one of three of the re-edit. The next two volumes shoulder be around 20-25 chapters each. That means around 60-70 chapters that will be made out of the original 15 chapters. A welcome break to any ready that slugged through the book wanting to only put it down at the end of a chapter. This is for you.

Overall the book reads better. I had decided to take a new direction with Demon Vampire: Redgold. This change in the flow and pacing of the chapters and in the book in general has translated to the changes in the re-edit of Demon Vampire.

Thank you all for your continued support of the book as it goes through these changes. The original version of the book will still be available after part one comes out. However, there will be  a few price changes. Because the old version of the book will be outdated, it will go up in price to serve as an anthology type book set with the contents of the first three novels. The new re-edit will remain the same price as the current version of the book on Kindle.

There is also good news to those that still enjoy the feel of a real book in hand over an eReader. Instead of the painful $18.97 that the current 500 page novel is set at. It's small font making it difficult to read in t a well lit room... The new re-edit will be a standard font size that is pleasing to the eye. It will also be pleasing to the budget at only $8.99 for the physical book. That's only a two dollar difference between the eBook and the print copy. This will make it much easier to those of you that were considering getting the book in the past, but held off because of the high price of the older version.

For now, I'm going back to editing the rest of the book.

Enjoy the night,

Sincerely,

Virgil Allen Moore
http://demonvampire.com/