It’ll soon be that time again and unfortunately it looks like being another ‘meh, not much’ but at least it’s not zero.
Leg Iron Books is a tiny publisher, a minnow in a shark pond. Our purpose is to get authors taken up by the sharks so nobody makes much money here.
Even so, we do seem to sell books. In this world of information overload that’s not too bad, really.
One thing is for sure. We’re not going away.
Mark Ellott’s latest novel, ‘Resolution’, is now available on Kindle, being distributed by Smashwords to eBook retailers and will soon be available in print.
You want to give your bad guys more depth? You want them to be more than one-dimensional evil?
This guy has some hints…
http://villain.libsyn.com/episode-53-why-we-do-what-we-do-in-the-shadows
The Halloween anthology title is going to be based on wells. Water sources of any kind, but especially wells.
It’s not a requirement for submission, the only requirement is that the story be Halloween based or if not Halloween, a scary story that would suit a Halloween campfire tale. Perhaps confusingly, the stories do not have to be scary at all as long as they are fixed to Halloween. Yeah, we don’t do things the easy way here.
The reason for the ‘well’ addition? If you look at the forewords for ‘Treeskull stories’ (UA3) and ‘The Gallows Stone’ (UA6) you’ll see that the titles are based on the editor’s experiences with the house he lives in. This year there is something interesting about the water source for that house. It’s a remote farmhouse with no mains water and the well the water comes from has a very long history, back to the year 877.
What is it? He’ll tell you in the foreword to UA9.
Basically, stories based around well water, or any water source, will get top billing.
But all Halloween/scary stories are welcome, of course.
It’s time, once again, to send out royalty payments to authors on royalty contracts. It takes a day or so to convert all the different currencies and account for the different VAT rates on eBooks in European countries, but payments should all be done by Monday.
It’s good to see that none of the authors are stuck with zero sales this quarter. That’s always encouraging.
Halloween anthology submissions will start August 20th and close September 30th. Start thinking dark thoughts…
Since that first Underdog Anthology in December 2016, Leg Iron Books has amassed a catalogue of 27 books so far, with more going through the process even now. I think we’re making progress here.
The Submissions, Novels and Anthology guidelines have been updated. For the better, naturally.
Transgenre Dreams has finally been added to the site, under Underdog Anthologies in the top menu, with crosslinks to the author pages. Took a while, there were a lot of links this time! Still, it’s done.
We have several novels in the editing process, another due soon and a potential science-based book (real, not SF, but likely to be entertaining) on the way. For those hoping for some SF, that’s on the way too.
Who would have thought a tiny operation could take off so fast? It started in a tiny flat with one man and an idea for an Underdog Anthology. Just three years ago.
It’s still a tiny operation but it’s expanding. Watch us go!