Looks like self-publishing's a no go as well.

[avevale_intelligencer]

So, just for the ducks of it, I gathered three of my not-long-enough-to-be-novels too-long-to-be-short-stories stories--The Sallow Man, The Shop and the Truesingers one--together into one two-hundred-page MS, went to lulu.com, and priced it up.

Cheapest possible option, best part of seven quid per book. No way I can make anything on top of that. No way anyone would buy it anyway.

It's nice, I suppose, to know that I was right to put them up on the site for nothing, as that seems to be the only way anyone is going to get to read them. I just hope they're being enjoyed.

Comments

[hurdle1gal.livejournal.com]

Also, what ages would your stories be considered "appropriate"?

[keristor.livejournal.com]

It's up now.

Ages, my estimate. There is no graphic sex or violence (beyond the level in "The Shop"), although there is certainly mention of 'adult' matters (as in a certain amount of romance) and some grimness in places as one might find in a murder mystery novel. The use of language (e.g. level of vocabulary; I don't mean "bad language" because I don't recall any of that) I would place around the same level as say Tolkien, C.S. Lewis or Randall Garrett for understandability (that is to say that I would have been happy reading them by age 12 at least). In general I would say that they would not be unsuitable for teenagers, although they aren't "young adult" books in the sense the publishers generally use the term (most of the protagonists are adult, not teenage or younger).

In film classification terms I'd say PG to <a href='http://www.bbfc.co.uk/classification/c_12.php>PG-12</a>.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Sorry, HTML markup error. The end of that last sentence should have read: "to PG-12"...