First Frost e-short story …

• Posted in About Books, Mythos Academy series, On Writing

Well, I’ve turned in the page proofs so I guess I can announce this now: I’m doing an e-short story for the Mythos Academy series.

The story is called First Frost and is a prequel to Touch of Frost, the first book in the series that’s coming out on July 26 from Kensington. Basically, First Frost fills in some of the details of how and why Gwen winds up going to Mythos Academy and gives folks a sneak peak at the academy and some of the characters there. It’s sort of like the Spider’s Bargain short story that I wrote for the Elemental Assassin series.

First Frost is about 40 pages long (around 11,000 words), and I believe the plan is to offer the story as a 99-cent download through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc. (Although don’t quote me on that just yet.) I’m told that the story will be released in July. I’m assuming early July since Touch of Frost is out on July 26, but I don’t have a firm release date yet or exactly how this is going to work.

Now, because my publisher is releasing the story as an e-book, that means that I can’t post it here on my website. I’ll probably be able to post the first page or two as a teaser, but that’s it. We haven’t worked out all the details yet.

I know some folks will be disappointed that the story isn’t available on my site for free. But I thought letting my publisher offer it as a download would be a really good marketing opportunity and hopefully attract some new readers, not only for the Mythos Academy series but for my Elemental Assassin series as well.

E-books and short e-reads are really taking off right now, and I think offering the story as a download is a smart thing to do. More people visit Amazon, etc. than look at my website. Maybe having a 99-cent download will convince more folks to surf on over here and try my books. I don’t know, but I figured that it was worth a shot.

Of course, you don’t have to read First Frost to enjoy Touch of Frost, but if you like bonus material, you might enjoy it.

I’ll post more details, including the cover, when I get them …

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6 Responses to “First Frost e-short story …”

    • Jennifer Estep says:

      I’m still waiting on my other publisher to get back to me and let me know what they want to do with the stories. I’m hoping to hear from them sometime next week. Just as soon as I know something, I’ll post about it here on the blog.

      • Calliope says:

        I know it’s not your fault, but it just seems to be taking FOREVER you know? I mean, talk about waiting to the last minute!

        It doesn’t help that I am the world’s more impatient reader.

  2. Taylor says:

    man i’ve read the first book in the series and fell in love and want to read the whole sereis extremely bad but i can tfind ANY of the books on the stores or at my library!

    • Jennifer Estep says:

      I would say the easiest thing to do is to order the books online through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc. Not every store will carry my books. Or ask your local library to order them. Good luck!

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