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
