Saturday, February 12, 2022

Publisher Problems...Still

This series is cursed. I swear it. 

First publisher, published the first two books with NO editing. They promised to edit it. But did not. I was so new to the game, I had no idea what was happening until it was too late. They published SOUL BORN and BLOOD DIVIDED, and...well...they had really good sales. Okay reviews. But I made a good deal of money from the royalties for about two years, then the Publisher stopped paying me! There is four books in the series, but the other were never published.

Contract broken. I started over.

Edited again. Hired editors...etc. Edited again and again. 

Couple years later, surprise! I found a new publisher for the series. Local-ish even. So I signed the series away again.

Book one was published. Had some small...very small royalties from it. Book two was published...and I stopped seeing royalties. As in NONE. Zero. I even bought copies of my own book online in stories, places that would have generated royalties...Nothing! I gave this publisher a second and third chance. Even sent book three to them to edit. YES, this publisher edited. Yay for that. At least. 

But this publisher had totally stopped paying me. Stopped replying to my emails...blah...blah...blah...

*sigh*

Contract broken.

I had to call and talk to Amazon. They took the Kindle books down. And the one paperback too. But for some reason Blood Divided remains on Amazon in paperback format. (don't buy it!) 

I alerted all the official writing groups of the issue. Reported the publisher ten times over. Apparently this publisher has done the same thing to many people. Such a crime!

So where do I stand now? I may submit this series to one of those places that simply makes it into an ebook and lists it. No frills. Just to get it back out there. And finally....finally...get book three and four published after all these years. 

I swear this series is cursed. 


Kevin James Breaux

www.kevinbreaux.com

Thursday, August 19, 2021

Publisher problems

 Well...

 

This seems to be the fate if this series. This is the third time I have had issues with it. Now, the current publisher has vanished. They stopped paying royalties a year ago. They have not replied to emails for months and months. I have requested my rights back, as THEY broke contract. And they are still selling my book...months after I asked them to stop. 

 

So...

 

*sigh*

 

Kevin James Breaux

www.kevinbreaux.com

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

PRG Readers Choice Awards - BLOOD DIVIDED wins second place!

 

Hi all,


I was shocked to be nominated this year. As you can imagine, the SOUL WAR books are Epic Fantasy, not Paranormal Romance. But the PRG has always been kind to me. They read and reviewed BLOOD DIVIDED and felt it had enough elements in it to be considered. 

When I got the nomination, I went to work promoting the awards on FB and Instagram. Actually reached out to some of my readers in toy groups too.

Here are the results. I tied for 2nd place. Not bad. Like I said, this is a fantasy book competing with PNR in and PNR awards. So yeah, I am proud of the results. 

I would have had a solid 2nd place, no tie, but my neighbor forgot to vote. Next time my doggie poops on his lawn, maybe I will forget to pick it up. Know what I mean? lol. Just kidding...

In other news, I just sent book three of four of the SOUL WAR series to the publisher. So maybe we will see it in print in a year. End of 2021? Maybe. Probably early 2022.

Thanks all!


Kevin James Breaux

www.kevinbreaux.com