Excitement Building....!

We are days away from putting the finishing touches on 6 books and pulling the proverbial "print-trigger" as they say in dorkland.  I am now a full fledge citizen and no longer a lurking illegal alien of this country.  I have locked up the fishing rods, let my shotguns rust, cancelled my trips with the dudes. All in the name of children's books. Best part is, I love it.  I read all these amazing books that are about publishing, marketing, social media, instead of Ken Follet, Tom Clancy, Nic Brown, Jane Borden and Nelson Demille.  I miss them, but they will still be there when I get a moment.  

We are doing it right this time. Instead of Three Stooges Go To The Printing Room, it has almost been like an inebriated Sherlock Holmes colludes with a cranky Professor X.  I will not disclose who is who, but you get the picture. We did it, but we still have a ways to go.  

This time we have 6 titles that are shipping at once.  Alabama, Auburn, South Carolina, Tennessee, Clemson and University of Virginia.  We will pay one customs fee, a reduced shipping fee for doing it in bulk as well as a great break on the printing costs. Here is where we raise an appropriate finger (your choice) to variable costs.  With 11 titles, instead of 5, we can raise another digit on the other hand or foot and shake it violently at our "variable" costs.   We can also add the letters...MBA after my name if you wish.  If I throw around builder's terms such as "shem it up" and "fer it out" you can add General Contractor to my title as well! 

Anyway, I supposedly have to blog often to attract readers, most of which will be highly turned off by my writing style and organize a raging boycott of my books.  I will provide them with chunks of bricks and bottle to throw should this happen.  I am not one to deny a mob of angry readers.  So henceforth, in order to attract future mob and riot members, I am going to try and "blog" once a week. 

I may even talk about the difference between "accrual" and "cash" basis!  There is some much un-sexy crap that comes with being an "author".  It is this crap that keeps most the people from joining this world, thus, giving those of us that do, a greater chance of success. 

In addition to publishing my own books, I will be publishing my first book for a client! Which I will discuss in a different post. We are also now a book distributor for independent self-published authors.  Lots going on in our growing little world. Thank you following me and for reading this post. Blown away if you made it this far. 

Cheers,
Bryan R. Jones

Below are two covers of our 6 newest books...