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Posting only for our tumblr followers. :) Can anyone guess what this is?

Working on our next cover! So far, this artist has been a dream to work with and I hope I can continue to work with her.

I'm putting the finishing touches on Cinnamon right now. As of now, the physical inside file is done and is in review along with the cover file with the printer. I finished the first draft of the ebook and am waiting on feedback from that. The fact of the matter is that when moving the text between the page layout software and the ebook coding software, 99.9% transfers fine, but there's that.01% that inevitably messes up in the form of missing quotation marks or missplaced italics. So even after the final pdf file is done, we still need to go over it a couple more times.

We found that out recently, so if you have some of our older e-books, you may run into those problems. We're actually looking at re-releasing four or five of our oldest books both physically and in e-book format. 

I freely admit that when I founded this company, I had no idea what I was doing. My background was in business management, not english so I could run a company finacially and make it all legal, but english was my worst subject. I've been kind of learning as I go and my goal is always to make each release better than the last; to be more creative with the presentation and the style of the book. 

I'm kind of in love with this cover and I'm more than a little sad that we can't use this artist again. The art is by super amazing Tatiana Kirgetova. She unfortunately doubled her price when I asked about doing another cover after this one. And this being a business, I have to stick to a strict budget when producing these books. 

I get why she did it, honestly. From what I gathered, she's not a super huge fan of doing yaoi art work and prefers doing stuff for her children's books and it's not like she's hurting for commissions because she's so talented so why not charge top dollar for something she is not as interested in doing and doesn't even really NEED to do? It's just business and I don't hold it against her.

So this is not a done deal by any stretch of the imagination. It's something that I thought up a couple of weeks ago and have been talking to some of the authors and staff about participating in. As of now, we have plans for at least four podcasts, each about a half hour in length going over topics such as fanfiction to original fiction, Character Creation, World Building, and Villians.

If you have any questions about writing, publishing, illustrating, any of our books, or for our authors; use the  #slpgquestion here, on facebook, or twitter.

I've been conducting a survey on the merch shoppe site about what kinds of things people want to see. A couple of people have said they want apparel which is not something I really took seriously. I mean, do you seriously want a shirt with just the cover art stuck on the front?