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Raven’s Tears is now on KDP Select!

Posted on March 31, 2018 by AE MatsonMarch 31, 2018

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For a long time now, we’ve been in the stupid position of having Raven’s Tears out of AMZN’s KDP Select service, while Dead Man’s Trigger remained IN the service, despite multiple attempts instructing AMZN NOT to renew its membership. Today, … Continue reading →

Protected: Our Plan

Posted on March 30, 2018 by AE MatsonMarch 30, 2018

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The Triple Partnership

Hey, all. Alesia here, again. You know, I never, ever expected to be on the board of a corporation, let alone sitting as its president. It was just never a thing that was on my radar, and no one would … Continue reading →

Making It Sew — and So

Posted on January 26, 2018 by AE MatsonJanuary 26, 2018

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This week’s news is that Michael and I have finally begun the process of getting Dead Man’s Trigger (DMT) down from the digital clouds and into a real, physical paperback book. We’d like to apologize for the wait to those … Continue reading →

Resurrections

Posted on November 18, 2017 by AE MatsonNovember 18, 2017

Hi, everyone. Alesia, here. It feels good to be able to say that, after two long, dark years, Michael and I have resumed the work on book three of the Raven & Iris trilogy. He and I spent this last … Continue reading →

On the Nature of Roller Coasters

Posted on October 7, 2016 by AE MatsonOctober 7, 2016

Hey again. This is Alesia, checking in with a little progress report. Here’s the tl;dr version: We’re still here, alive, kicking, swinging for the fences. That’s huge. We’ve had to restructure MetPub to get through this interregnum. Our goals as … Continue reading →

We’re Back

Posted on August 8, 2016 by AE MatsonJanuary 21, 2018

As you likely know, if you’ve been by here at all in 2016, we’ve been MIA. That’s because we’ve had to restructure everything here in order to keep functioning at all – gotta have money here in this western world … Continue reading →

The EPUB Connundrum

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Michael MatsonNovember 20, 2017

For readers and publishers both, the EPUB format has everything one could want in a 21st century digital publication — except for one thing: Uniformity of presentation as described by the IDPF Standard. This post looks at some of the more common failings to be found in the EPUB reader ecosystem, and proposes changes that the IDPF could make to the EPUB Standard that would help it live up to its goal of being "the industry standard" for digital publications.

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Self-Published Authors Are Selling More

Posted on December 11, 2015 by AE MatsonDecember 11, 2015

Infographic dated September 2015. http://publishingpush.com/blog/self-published-authors-are-selling-more-than-the-big-five-publishers/ … Continue reading →

The Final Hours

Posted on December 3, 2015 by AE MatsonDecember 3, 2015

Dead Man’s Trigger is still holding its own at #2 in Literature & Fiction > Action & Adventure > Fantasy – but we’d sure like to see it go back to #1 on the last day of its KDP Select … Continue reading →

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