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sufue · 01-18-2012, 10:35 PM

She has put out all (I think) of the Captain Lacey books that were originally published in paper - she was doing re-releases one a month for a while starting sometime last year:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=139955

And there is now at least one "new" book in the series, A Death in Norfolk, which came out first as an e-book, followed almost immediately by a print edition, and another, A Disappearance in Drury Lane, promised for the spring of this year. There are also a couple of novellas as well.

I suspect that without digital publishing, there might not have been any more books in the series, which had been on hiatus since 2006, so I'm quite happy about it. And her prices have been very reasonable: $0.99 for the first book, $1.99 and $2.99 for the rest of the series.

I wish more authors would put out their backlists like this, instead of at the original prices (or worse!) of the DTB's. Although I already owned four (if memory serves) of her DTB's, I went ahead and bought/re-bought the whole series, both old and new ones, as e-books. I would not have done this (the re-buying, at least) at much more than $3 or $4. So it's a win-win: I get to clear some room on my shelves, and the author gets a bit more in sales that they wouldn't get otherwise.

01-18-2012, 10:35 PM	#3
sufue lost in my e-reader... Posts: 8,154 Karma: 66191692 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: sunny southern California, USA Device: Android phone, Sony T1, Nook ST Glowlight, Galaxy Tab 7 Plus	She has put out all (I think) of the Captain Lacey books that were originally published in paper - she was doing re-releases one a month for a while starting sometime last year: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=139955 And there is now at least one "new" book in the series, A Death in Norfolk, which came out first as an e-book, followed almost immediately by a print edition, and another, A Disappearance in Drury Lane, promised for the spring of this year. There are also a couple of novellas as well. I suspect that without digital publishing, there might not have been any more books in the series, which had been on hiatus since 2006, so I'm quite happy about it. And her prices have been very reasonable: $0.99 for the first book, $1.99 and $2.99 for the rest of the series. I wish more authors would put out their backlists like this, instead of at the original prices (or worse!) of the DTB's. Although I already owned four (if memory serves) of her DTB's, I went ahead and bought/re-bought the whole series, both old and new ones, as e-books. I would not have done this (the re-buying, at least) at much more than $3 or $4. So it's a win-win: I get to clear some room on my shelves, and the author gets a bit more in sales that they wouldn't get otherwise.