The Kraken King – Serial Pre-Order Links and FAQs
The pre-order links for the serial version of The Kraken King went live today at Amazon and Barnes & Noble! I’ve set up a preliminary page for the serial here; descriptions and covers will be revealed by the end of the month (I’ll post links when they go up!) I expect that Kobo, iTunes, and others will go live soon, as well — I’ll also add those as soon as I can.
I’ve received a few questions about the serial, so I thought I’d quickly try to answer some of them here.
Q) Who are the main characters in The Kraken King?
A) Zenobia Fox and the Kraken King, a Horde rebel…kind of. It stands alone, although a few events from earlier stories are referenced (from Heart of Steel and Tethered, in particular.)
Q) Do I have to buy each part, or do I buy part one and the rest automatically downloads?
A) Each part is sold separately. I know it adds up; for those of you worried that you are only getting a tiny bit of story for each part, remember that I’m a terrible over-writer — several of these parts are novella-length. My goal from the beginning was to write this serial as a serial, not just a novel broken up into eight sections, and to make certain that my readers get their money’s worth and walk away from each part satisfied with the story they’ve gotten that week. So each part is written as its own mini-adventure within the novel. Some parts are longer than others, but, ahem…this is going to be a long book, overall.
Q) Will the novel eventually be collected in print? In ebook? Will there be an audio version?
A) Yes. Yes. And (I’m pretty sure) yes. I don’t have a solid date yet. Originally it was planned for August 2014, but the writing ran late — so as soon as I have the date I’ll post it on the book page.
Q) When does it come out?
A) The Kraken King will be published as a serial novel from April 15th to June 3rd. The novel will be published later in print and in ebook as a collected edition. As soon as I have a firm date for that publication, I will post it here.
Covers and descriptions are coming soon!
January 22, 2014 @ 11:56 am
Yay! I preordered the series. I don’t think I have ever commented before, but I discovered your books recently because of how much Nalini Singh has praised them on her blog. I absolutely loved them, and you jumped right into my top 3-4 authors. I am attending RT convention this year and looking forward to chatting with and getting books signed by my favorite authors 🙂
On a side note, I am Indian, and incredibly impressed by the linguistic accuracy and particularly the cultural accuracy in Demon Moon. In particular how you approached arranged marriages.
January 22, 2014 @ 12:55 pm
Oh, fantastic! I look forward to meeting you! (And remind me that you commented, because I’m terrible with names!)
And I’m so happy that Demon Moon worked for you! It’s always a bit of a nail-biter when trying to portray different cultures, because there are so many things to get wrong (or to simply not know that I don’t know). Luckily, I had a husband and in-laws whose brains I could pick. And my brother-in-law had his own arranged marriage a few years ago — a really successful one, with a woman I adore — so although it didn’t work out for Savi too well, I love the idea of romance growing from those circumstances. 🙂
January 23, 2014 @ 10:38 am
Great, I will remind you :D. I can understand that it must be challenging to write about other cultures, and incidentally I also love how multi-ethnic your cast of characters is. I hope you have visited/or will visit India sometime, I guess your husband must still have some family there. I live in Boston, but am from Bangalore, and a lot of India is really stunning.
Since your books are available in India as ebooks (many books are not due to geographical restrictions), I am planning to get my mother hooked :)… Actually, while I have the opportunity, I will also mention that your book covers are consistently gorgeous, which is rare. I love the last few Guardian covers and the Iron Seas ones too. Hats off to whoever does the design.
January 23, 2014 @ 5:04 pm
I hope to visit India at some point! My husband has been, of course, and we want to take our daughter. So hopefully before too long we’ll be able to make the trip.
The covers are from the Berkley art department — and I love them, too. I can’t wait to post the covers for The Kraken King. It’s an entirely different direction, but so so pretty.
January 23, 2014 @ 10:58 am
OMG! It’s finally happening!! I cannot wait for each adventure! I just love this series so much. Thanks for the update!
January 23, 2014 @ 5:04 pm
🙂
January 23, 2014 @ 3:39 pm
Yay! I am so looking forward to more of Zenobia and am happy for news from you. (You’ve been awfully hard to stalk lately:) Any news on the Guardians carve out novella?
January 23, 2014 @ 5:08 pm
It’s this book! All this book!
If all goes well, I’ll be done with TKK very soon. Then I have to write a novella for Berkley. Then finally Frozen. Then I intend to work on the Guardian novella unless something else comes up.
In a way, the delay for TKK is a good thing — I wasn’t going to be able to put Frozen out until after the serial had finished. Now I should *crosses fingers* be able to put it out beforehand.
Even if I finish the Guardian novella by April, though, it will probably have to wait until after the serial is finished before I can put it out. Unless *cough cough* I send it to reviewers. I just won’t be able to put it on sale.
BUT OH GOD WHO KNOWS WHEN ANYTHING WILL COME OUT? I SUCK AT THAT SO MUCH.
January 26, 2014 @ 4:30 pm
I will definitely pre-order the serial. A quick question, though. Is Part I of the serial exactly the same as the excerpt at the end of the standalone release of “Here There Be Monsters” or is it longer?
January 26, 2014 @ 5:48 pm
It’s longer. The excerpt was a little less than 7,000 words and the entire Part I is over 23,000 words. So it’s a big chunk of Part I, but there is quite a bit more that happens.
Because, yeah. That would suck if you bought a whole part that you’d already gotten for free. 😀 (And I really want readers to get their money’s worth.)
January 27, 2014 @ 10:07 am
Ta – that’s what I thought, but just wanted to confirm. The excerpt I read looked brilliant so I have been very excited about the serial (which is an inspired format for a book about a woman who writes them!).
January 27, 2014 @ 12:06 pm
That’s why I wanted to write in this format for Zenobia’s book — it just fit so well. Plus, the whole steampunk adventure just works so well as a serial, too. Maybe because the format is so episodic? Not sure. But I have enjoyed working this way quite a bit.