Audiobook, e-book and other formats

Here's a little success story for the business model and story-structure crafting posts I've been showing you and the source material behind my narrative about the shifts in the publishing industry and in audiences. 

I now have books in new paper, e-book (multi-format, but I'm giving you links to Kindle), and now audiobook, too, along with whole new story/plotlines designed for a videogame. 

For most of very recent history, all writers have been self-employed or employed to do "work for hire" (i.e. paid a level salary to write words they subsequently do not own the copyright on.)

Prior to that writers, as most all artists, worked under the patronage system, and didn't actually own what they produced.  Rich people competed to own the most popular of them. 

Prior to that writers worked mostly anonymously -- bards singing epic songs glamorizing and immortalizing actual newsworthy historic events.

Today, even writers who own their copyrights and license them to publishers end up doing a lot of their own publicity.  But sometimes things just happen. 

"Just happen" seems to be the major theme of the epic tale of the Sime~Gen Universe novels in the last few years.

A few years ago, Wildside Press came to Jean Lorrah and me asking for reprint rights to our backlist.  Wildside picked up the entire Sime~Gen series that Jean and I collaborate on and own together. 

We had barely finished doing the formatting work on all 12 extant Sime~Gen novels than a fellow who knew Jean's work via a connection to her University job as a Professor of English came to us wanting game rights to her novels.  We didn't have exactly what he wanted, but pointed him to some of the unpublished Sime~Gen work posted online, and it hinted at what he wanted.

For the last 7 months or so, we've been working to create the Sime~Gen galactic civilization, and meanwhile the novels have begun to appear in audiobook from audible.com which is a handy format many of his game development  crew prefer -- because it's hands-and-eyes free and allows for multitasking. 

Amazon's cross indexing is a mess, what with all the used copies for sale (cheap), so for reference, I'm going to list the Sime~Gen novels in publication order with links to the various formats of the new editions. 

You don't need to read them before playing the game because the game will include whatever background you would want to play in this universe's interstellar era. 

The novels were published in an order that has little to do with the chronology of history in the Sime~Gen universe.  For that chronology consult:

http://simegen.com/CHRONO1.html

Sime~Gen Universe Novels:

House of Zeor.

    Wildside Press, Borgo, 2011, paperback, e-book

    Audible.com, 2012

New Paperback:


Kindle:


Audible.com
http://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B007JX14EM

Unto Zeor, Forever (won the Galaxy Award)

        Wildside Press, Borgo, paperback, e-book 2011

          audible.com, 2012

New Paperback:



Kindle:



audible.com
http://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B00AHI6XI8

First Channel, by Jean Lorrah and Jacqueline Lichtenberg.

        Wildside Press, 2011, paperback, e-book

New Paperback:



Kindle:


audible.com (?)


Mahogany Trinrose.

       Wildside Press, 2011, paperback, and e-book

New Paperback:


Kindle:


audible.com (?)


Channel's Destiny, by Jean Lorrah and Jacqueline Lichtenberg.

        Wildside Press, 2011 paperback, e-book

New Paperback:



Kindle:


audible.com (?)
    
RenSime,

   Wildside Press, Borgo, 2011 paperback, e-book

    audible.com, 2012

New Paperback:


Kindle:


audible.com  
 http://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B00AKNDHNE

Zelerod's Doom by Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Jean Lorrah

    Wildside Press, Borgo, 2011, paperback, e-book

 New Paperback


Kindle:


audible.com (?)


Ambrov Keon by Jean Lorrah (in Lichtenberg's series but not a collaboration)

        Wildside Press, Borgo, 2011, paperback, e-book

New Paperback:


Kindle:


audible.com (?)

To Kiss Or To Kill  Sime~Gen Book 11 by Jean Lorrah,

      Wildside Press, Borgo, 2011, paperback, e-book

       audible.com, 2012

 New Paperback:


Kindle:


audible.com
http://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B00AJWTWQC

The Story Untold and other Sime~Gen stories, Sime~Gen Book 10 by Jean Lorrah,

      Wildside Press 2010, paperback, e-book

      audible.com, 2012

New paperback - printed 2-sided, with PERSONAL RECOGNIZANCE on the flip side of THE STORY UNTOLD:




Kindle: (just The Story Untold)


audible.com (just The Story Untold)
http://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B00AI1DY6S

Personal Recognizance Sime~Gen Book 9, by Jacqueline Lichtenberg,

      Wildside Press, Borgo, 2010, paperback, e-book

      audible.com, 2012

New Paperback


Kindle: (just Personal Recognizance)


audible.com (just Personal Recognizance)
http://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B007L5CRQW


The Farris Channel Sime~Gen Book 12 by Jacqueline Lichtenberg

      Wildside Press, Borgo, 2012, paperback, e-book               

New Paperback:


Kindle:


audible.com (?)

And just last week, one of the rarest and most expensive of the non-Sime~Gen Novels (originally a St. Martin's Hardcover, then a BenBella trade paperback) came out in ebook, Dreamspy.



Each of these novels, and a long bibliography of shorter works, has a long, involved story behind it, many adventures, many visits to various publishers and editorial offices, to book distributors and distribution warehouses, to bookstores and conventions.  And it's still going on, as publishers shift and change and morph and re-combine their operations and work with me in different ways.  I intend to transmit everything I've learned as things change.
              
There's a more complete bibliography with early editions and foreign editions listed at
http://www.simegen.com/bios/jlbio.html

Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com