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Beltane in ancient Celtic lore represents celebrating Spring--like Easter for witches.

This is a co-author romance promo including higher heat levels, no erotica. I encourage fantasy and paranormal, because that's my genre, but note that this promotion celebrates all romance. Full books only. All price points welcome. Boxed sets and anthologies are welcome. New writers to Bookfunnel are welcome. Come join me while I promote all my new witchy books I'm publishing in May.

HERE IS THE LINK TO JOIN: https://dashboard.bookfunnel.com/bundles/board/ei0zgl6won
(again, love to see all you Writer Sanctum writers there :ws)
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Yeah, I can see the value for autographed copies.

My designer is still in an ebook-paperback mode. (Hardcovers haven't been a thing for long enough, I guess, at least among his clients.) So the extra charge probably wouldn't be negligible. But if I discover it isn't all that much, I may start exploring.
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If it's going to bother you, it probably is worth unpublishing and republishing. It's odd that paper color would be a thing that can't be changed because of the ISBN.
I'll see. I'm still waiting for the book in the mail to visually compare them. When it comes in, I can show you a photo comparing the prose on white vs cream. That may be handy for those deciding on one vs another. I'll figure out whether to republish if there's a big enough difference.
Having any luck selling hardcovers?
It's a novelty item. It's kind of like my omnibus 3-book paperback. Both sell about just as much: one every six months or so. I use them from time to time for signed copies for readers. Also my newest cover artist doesn't charge much to give me an alternate hardcover, so... why not, I suppose?   :shrug
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If it's going to bother you, it probably is worth unpublishing and republishing. It's odd that paper color would be a thing that can't be changed because of the ISBN.

Having any luck selling hardcovers?
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Yeah, the US ISBN thing is pretty crazy and scammy. I bought 100 too thinking it'd be enough for many years.
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People have differing opinions about paper color, just as they have about matte covers versus glossy. And some people will not notice or care. For your own satisfaction, you'll probably want to redo the book.

Which reminds me that a friend who died last month had bought 100 ISBNs when she retired. I don't know that she got a chance to use even half of them, and now I'm not sure anyone can since they were bought in her name and no other name can be attached to them. The U.S. ISBN system is a swindle as it applies to individual authors.
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Formatter's Forge [Public] / Careful choosing paper color when publishing on Amazon
« Last post by alhawke on April 20, 2024, 08:40:00 AM »
I goofed. I published my hardcover on Amazon for a 5th book in series with the wrong color paper--white.  :HB Wouldn't be as much of a problem if it was a standalone, but now it won't match my other hardcovers in series. I've since learned that there's no way to change it after publication as it's linked with its Bowker ISBN. The thing that's really annoying about it is I'm sure I didn't click on white initially. Amazon reverts to a default. This created a similar problem a month ago, though caught in time by me, over Amazon's paperback size default for another book.

My only solution is to unpublish it and create a totally new hardcover version with a new ISBN.

But... does the color of the paper really matter? Will it matter if the new white doesn't match my past cream paper in other books?

I'm waiting for a hardcover to come in the mail to see how different it looks. Unfortunately, that's being delayed by Amazon shipping too :(
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I've got my credit locked, and it wasn't a big deal to unlock it last year when I had to buy a car. Locked it back up again in a hurry. But yes, the timing of the unlocking sometimes goes awry.

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Yeah, Facebook insisted I confirm my identity and location because of the number of followers my author page has. It also insisted I install FB on my phone as a way of verifying my location. I didn't want it on my phone, but there you are.

My Wordpress site did get hacked once, but since installing Wordfence and other precautions, I haven't had a problem. People keep trying, but so far, so good.
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And someone or "somebot" keeps trying to get into my Facebook account, too.

Someone tried to use the reset password feature on my Facebook account the other day.  There was a link in the eMail from Facebook where you can report that you didn't request the reset, so I did that.

But, it probably wouldn't matter anyway since I can't even get into Facebook with my current password.  A while back, Facebook forced me into two-factor authentication and demanded my phone number.  I'm not giving Facebook my phone number, so my Facebook account is pretty much dead to me now.

And, yes, there are plenty of attempts at getting into my websites.  On the plus side, most of my websites don't use WordPress so that tends to stymie most attempts since the majority of attempts seem to be targeted at the wp-login.php page which does not exist.
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