It all comes round again -- Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary

[pameladean]

David and I have made up Blaisdell Press to reissue some of my backlist and ultimately publish Going North. We are beginning with my 1998 novel Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary, which got caught in the collapse of the mass-market distribution system and sold so badly that when Firebird bought up the rest of my backlist, buying this unfortunate book was not something they wanted to undertake.

It is an odd book but I love it a lot. It has astronomy and sisters and true friends and poetry and many female characters and a cat and books and quotations and success and failure and Shakespeare. I don't suppose that last part surprises anybody.

It will be available in a POD trade paperback from CreateSpace, as a Kindle book from Amazon, and as an e-book from Smashwords.

Things are supposed to all go live on March 1, but it looks like you can do pre-orders now. Here's the link:

http://dd-b.net/blaisdellpress/

David will be doing some blog posts about the process of scanning the text and designing the cover and interior, and I'll link to those when they go up.

I am so excited that any attempt at expressing myself other than a level recitation of the facts makes me incoherent, so I'll stop now.

If LJ will permit, here's an image of the cover:

Comments

[aynatonal.livejournal.com]

Hooray! I have the trade paperback edition on my bookshelf, but I'd love to have it on my Kindle, too. Pre-ordering now!

[evil_plotbunny]

Is there a chance of a Nook edition in the near future? Also YAY!

[biblio-tech.livejournal.com]

Great cover. I love the book, too. May this new venture be all that you hope for!

[redbird]

Oh, excellent.

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

ohh! i have that book from its original printing (they forgot to tell me the market was collapsing) and i love it. glad it'll be back in print!

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Lovely cover!

And Going North coming out? Woohoo!

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

When I signed up a few months ago to take a beginner ballet class for adults of all shapes, I was wondering whether I would find any kindred spirits. Then one week I got there early and one of the other students was sitting on the floor reading a used-book-store copy of Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary.

[brooksmoses]

Squee! Actual physical book ordered -- and, rather coincidentally, looks like it will arrive on March 1st, but only because I chose cheap shipping; the more expensive shipping would have gotten it here a week sooner.

[belegwen.livejournal.com]

So excited! I read it in high school as a library copy and haven't been able to find it since.

[will shetterly (from livejournal.com)]

Get it into Nook/Barnes and Noble too. Their system is very easy to deal with, maybe ten minutes once you've got an account. We let Smashwords deal with everyone except B&N and Amazon.

[red-queen.livejournal.com]

I have it in hard cover; i quite liked yhat book! Congrats on getting it back out there!

[kazoogrrl.livejournal.com]

Excellent news! I reread it about once a year, I'll pick up another copy so I have a loaner to pass around my friends.

[pameladean]

Yay, and thank you!

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[pameladean]

I am informed that the Smashwords package should include a version for the Nook, but the link isn't up yet.

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[pameladean]

Thank you. I feel the cover came out unexpectedly well, and keep staring at it.

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[pameladean]

8-)

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[pameladean]

Hee. It was not the market, just the old distribution system for mass-market paperbacks. JG&R should have had a mass-market paperback edition -- trade paperbacks were kind of strange then and viewed with suspicion and alarm in some quarters -- but when the distribution system collapsed and there were no longer hundreds and hundreds of very knowledgeable salespeople with small areas who knew in detail what book buyers within the areas would like, doing a mass-market paperback edition was much riskier and became for a time very fraught. So a midlist author like me, at that particular time, just didn't get one.

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[pameladean]

Not immediately -- I still have to revise it -- but not really indefinitely, either.

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[pameladean]

Oh, that's a great story.

I hope they really were a kindred spirit, but even the sight at the beginning must have been encouraging.

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[pameladean]

Thank you! Yes, David was remarking on the timing of physical-book delivery with amusement -- we ordered some copies for ourselves.

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[pameladean]

Oh, good, it's people like you I was hoping to provide with their own copy, if they wanted it.

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[pameladean]

Does Smashwords not deal with B&N?

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[pameladean]

Thanks! I really liked the Tor cover and book design, but it was just an unlucky book.

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[pameladean]

Excellent! I love it when people reread my books.

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[rosefox]

Congratulations! That's a splendid cover.

FYI, PW happily reviews reprints of books that we didn't review in their first incarnations. :)