{"id":171,"date":"2012-02-12T18:04:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T18:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2012-02-12T18:10:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T18:10:30","slug":"the-night-prowlers-is-available-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/the-night-prowlers-is-available-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The Night Prowlers is Available Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The very first book I sold to a publisher was a short, fairly light contemporary romantic suspense with some Gothic elements.\u00a0 The Night Prowlers<\/strong><\/em> wasn’t my original title for the book, but it’s actually better than the one I was using, so I’ve decided to keep it.<\/p>\n

It was\u00a0 published in hard cover\u00a0by Avalon Books in 1990, and made its way into a lot of libraries.\u00a0 A few years later, when they were all out of print, I was able to get the rights to my four Avalon books reverted back to me.\u00a0 At the time I got the reversion letter, there was nothing obvious I could do with the books, so I sat on them for a long time.<\/p>\n

Then came epublishing and Amazon’s self-publishing platform for Kindle, followed rapidly by Barnes & Noble’s Nook, and others.\u00a0 Time to consider those older books again.\u00a0 I pulled them out and was pleasantly surprised to find that they were still pretty good stories.\u00a0 Unfortunately they were so old that I no longer had the manuscripts in electronic form.\u00a0 They were originally writing on a PC and saved on a handful of 5 1\/4″ floppy disks.\u00a0 Anyone remember those?\u00a0 Me, either.\u00a0 Nor could I find those disks. Not that it mattered since no one I knew would have any way to read them, and even if I did, they were stored in a propietary format and I no longer had the software to interpret it.<\/p>\n

So I got out my scanner, got OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software and set to work scanning them in. I started with my very first. Once I got through the scanning, I had to go through it to edit out scanning errors.<\/p>\n

I also realized there were a few awkward phrases and some things that were dated, so I fixed those, too.\u00a0 Then I hired my daughter, a professional editor, to go throught it.\u00a0 Finally I formatted it for epublishing, put it up and now it’s available again for the first time in more than 20 years!<\/p>\n

\"\"To the left\u00a0is the original Avalon cover for comparison with the one above, which I created for it.<\/p>\n

I’d love to hear what you think abou it!<\/p>\n

Links to buy the current version:<\/p>\n

Amazon Kindle<\/a><\/p>\n

B&N Nook<\/a><\/p>\n

Smashwords<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The very first book I sold to a publisher was a short, fairly light contemporary romantic suspense with some Gothic elements.\u00a0 The Night Prowlers wasn’t my original title for the book, but it’s actually better than the one I was …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}