Garden of Spiders 2: House of Flies Vol. 1 Update!

Garden of Spiders 2: House of Flies Vol. 1 Update!

I think we're close to a release date! I don't want to blow my excitement load too much but a lot of progress is being made and after finishing this Sanguine chapter I've been needing to write, things will be handed off to my beautiful beta readers! The last few books I've been putting the release date pretty close to the release date announcement, since I want everything pretty much done by the time I lock a date in... soooo... let's just say I think we're closer to Garden of Spiders 2: House of Flies Vol. 1's release date than you think!

NOW! There is a dilemma. Garden of Spiders 2 Vol. 1 is fucking HUGE. I'm guessing I'm going to clock this in at 400,000 words by the end of it (I have some more chapters to write in so that's why I'm not entirely sure). The issue here, is that Amazon's max page count for the dimensions of my physical books makes it so anything over 343,000 words won't fit in a single physical book (820 pages).

I knew I'd eventually have to figure out how I was going to remedy this. And before today, I took the solid stance of "Let Future Quil figure it out". But it's time. I have a few solutions to this, none of which I overly like, but this is where we are now.

The first solution is what I did with The Gods' Games Book 1. Which is I had 1 ebook and it said "Vol. 1 and Vol. 2" right on the cover, then I had two physical books. So, 1 ebook, 2 physical books. Now, that was fine, but it ended up fucking up how Amazon links ebooks and physical books together into one page. I ended up having to unlink both physical books from TGG's ebook page because Vol. 2 wouldn't show up in searches (Amazon help was no help at all and if my book was unlinked, they'd say to link it, and if it was linked they'd say to unlink it and nothing ended up working) and I reckon that's still bloody well happening sometimes.

Second solution: Make two ebooks and two physical books and call them Vol. 1 Part 1 and Vol. 1 Part 2. This is most likely what I think I'm going to have to do. I don't want to, but it's the most viable solution. What I don't like about it, is that people already have trouble grasping companion books and volumes and this is essentially going to make the title of GOS 2 even longer "Garden of Spiders 2: House of Flies Vol. 1 Part 1" I keep telling myself it's not THAT confusing and hard to grasp but I still wish there was an easier way. I'm also going to have to make another cover! Which sucks but I'm sure it'll be fun lol.

The third solution is to split Volume 1 into Volume 1 and 2 instead of Part 1 and Part 2 and make the old Vol 2 into Vol 3. I don't like this mostly because it's already been established that a Volume is pretty much it's own book in itself and will end at a monumental place and Vol. 1 as it is now ends with a huge bang whereas where I'd split it would still end at a cool part but nothing compared to if I kept Vol. 1 intact as it is now. Part 1 and Part 2 seems more "This is still the same book just split up" instead of "This is its own mini book". Makes sense? No? Yeah, sorry lol.

I think I'm going to have to go the Part 1 and Part 2 route for this companion book. I know Vol. 1 Part 1 and Vol. 1 Part 2, especially for a book that already has 2 in its title, is just... a lot lol but I'm running out of options here. My long books have come to bite me in the ass! But at least by the time the reader is at GOS 2 they'll already have an understanding of how I number these books and really it's not that confusing.

Oh and Part 1 and Part 2 will either be released on the same day or pretty damn close together. Depends on how this last leg of editing goes.

At least ya'll will most likely be getting a bonus cover for Part 2 lol but yes, besides all that... a release date is coming! As soon as I have my beta readers settled in and have an idea how long it'll take them to read through GOS Vol. 1. But it's coming!! Elish and Sanguine await.