The Novel Is Published
The Epoch Accord and El Pacto de la Época are finished, printed, and on sale in both languages. Where to buy them and what the publishing part actually looked like.
In April I wrote here that I had been working on a novel. That post ended with "now back to coding," which was true, but the coding had to share the desk for a few more months.
It's done. The Epoch Accord is printed and on sale. So is El Pacto de la Época, the Spanish version, which I wrote in parallel (it is not a translation made afterwards). Around sixty thousand words each. Same book, but the words don't always match, and if you read both you will probably notice which chapters were thought first in one language.
Where to buy it
English, The Epoch Accord:
→ Kindle (Amazon.com) → Paperback (Amazon.com) → Paperback (Amazon.es)
Spanish, El Pacto de la Época:
→ Kindle (Amazon.es) → Kindle (Amazon.com) → Paperback (Lulu) → Paperback (Amazon.es) → Paperback (Amazon.com)
The first three chapters of both versions are still free to read on the book pages, English here and Spanish here. Read those before spending money on it.
The publishing part was the least interesting part, and it still took the longest
Two editions, two pipelines. The English one went through KDP, Kindle and paperback. The Spanish paperback runs on Lulu with its own ISBN, 978-84-09-89169-6, and the Spanish Kindle sits on Amazon. Every format of every edition needs a separate ISBN, the kind of detail nobody tells you until you are already three uploads deep.
I would not call any of it hard. It's admin, and admin expands to fill whatever time you give it. Building the world and the characters was the part I enjoyed.
I have some early printed versions around, but the final one carries the corrections after my friend Pamela read it and gave me her feedback. Thanks, Pamela.
Some signed copies are already in the hands of people very close to me, and a few more will go out as soon as I have new copies.
You know where to find me if you want to talk about the novel, or to tell me what you thought of it. If you read it and liked it, tell me. If you read it and did not like it, tell me too. There is no better way to improve than listening to readers.
If it catches you, pass it to someone who might like it. That's the whole distribution strategy.
Now back to coding, like every other day.