Amanda Hocking’s Trylle trilogy will be re-released by St. Martin’s Press! Hocking just announced this via a publisher’s blurb on her blog:
Self-publishing phenomenon Amanda Hocking’s USA Today bestselling TRYLLE trilogy, three young adult paranormal novels that the author previously published as ebooks, again to St. Martin’s, for publication in both print and ebook starting in Winter 2012.
Awesome!
Then I did a double-take.
Let’s look at that again.
Self-publishing phenomenon Amanda Hocking’s USA Today bestselling TRYLLE trilogy, three young adult paranormal novels that the author previously published as ebooks, again to St. Martin’s, for publication in both print and ebook starting in Winter 2012.
Wait, what?
Hocking goes on to say that the text itself will not change dramatically and that it will be the same story, only with better editing and proofreading, etc. I guess my question is why a few minor edits and a possible cover redesign are going to take, oh, say, about three times as long as it took for Hocking to write, edit, design and publish the entire trilogy in the first place.
I’m assuming that SMP will stagger the release of each book so that they won’t all come out simultaneously, so it will probably only be the first book that will actually appear in stores in Winter 2012. So actually, the last two books will take even longer than eighteen months.
Think about that. These works are already, for all intents and purposes of the writer, finished. We’re talking about fixing typos here, not changing the storyline or characterization or major revisions, and it’s going to take a traditional NY publisher eighteen months to do a week’s worth of line edits and to slap a new cover on the books. Eighteen months. A year and a half. Keep in mind, this is for one of their top contracted authors.
Eighteen months.
As we all know, a lot has happened in the past eighteen months. What about the next eighteen? Hell, what about the next six?
