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Q&A: “Tales” in Print?

We knew this issue would come up sooner or later, and it has come up mul­ti­ple times through so­cial sys­tems and through the “Con­tact” page at No­bleDead.org.

So it is time for an of­fi­cial re­sponse, so to speak, though the an­swer might not please some. We will try to ex­plain…

“Tales” on iTunes/iBookStore Completed

Just a very quick note to every­one, but es­pe­cially iPhone, iPod, and iPad users:

All cur­rently avail­able works in Tales from the world of the Noble Dead Saga are now avail­able through iTunes and the iBook­Store.

You can search them out there by title, au­thor, se­quence, or even “tales from (etc.),” or sim­ply drop by No­bleDead.org and se­lect “Tales” from the site’s main menu. Se­lect any title in the Tales page-menu to find links that take you di­rectly to the ap­pro­pri­ate iTunes/iBook­Store prod­uct page.

Note that you must have iTunes in­stalled if you are mak­ing a pur­chase via a com­puter in­stead of an iOS de­vice. And of course all fu­ture “Tales” re­leases will also be avail­able at iTunes and the iBook­Store from now on.

S3B2: The Dog in the Dark—Description

The back cover de­scrip­tion for the next edi­tion in the Noble Dead Saga is now avail­able at No­bleDead.org. Se­lect “Books” from the main menus, and then book title on the Books page.

An ear­lier un­cor­rected ver­sion slipped out to a cou­ple of sites, but we got in touch with the our pub­lisher and worked out some cor­rec­tions; this is now the of­fi­cial ver­sion.

Those who’ve been fol­low­ing some of our com­men­tary on so­cial sites may al­ready know much of what you will find, but the rest of you can now catch up a lit­tle.

AD­DI­TIONAL: We have of­fi­cially set the work­ing title for the novel we’re work­ing on now. Se­ries 3, Book 3 is ti­tled… The Wind in the Night. More on this work after the first of the year.

Now Available: Homeward, V: The Reluctant Guardian

Barb Hendee
$3.00 USD
Short story, ~12k words; Eng­lish Only

This sixth of­fer­ing in Tales from the world of the Noble Dead Saga is now avail­able at Ama­zon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo­Books, and iTunes (iBook­Store). For more in­for­ma­tion please visit the “Tales” page at No­bleDead.org.

For non-USA read­ers, Ama­zon and Kobo­Books offer ac­cess and pur­chase from out­side of the USA. For Ama­zon, you will need to seek the proper site by do­main ex­ten­sion (.es, .uk, etc.); see the main Ama­zon.com site for as­sis­tance if you can­not find your re­gion’s do­main site. Kobo­Books has af­fil­i­ates in about 150 coun­tries, though their main site (from what we un­der­stand) sells di­rectly (with im­me­di­ate ac­cess) to many coun­tries around the world.

NOTE: At pre­sent we are not able to pro­vide in­ter­na­tional ac­cess to “tales” via iTunes.​Apple.​com (iBook­Store). List­ing and price con­trol there for non-USA pur­chases has not been ad­e­quately re­fined via their pub­lish­ing por­tal to ac­count for fluc­tu­at­ing cur­rency ex­change rates as is done through other por­tals.

It may take a lit­tle more time for our pri­vately pub­lished ti­tles to fil­ter through these large ven­dor sites to any of their non-USA sub­sites, but they will. Please be pa­tient. While you are at our site, have a look at the pre­vi­ous “Tales” re­leases in the “Home­ward” and “Bones of the Earth” se­quences.

   

Though set in the world of the Noble Dead Saga, “Tales” and their se­quences do not re­quire knowl­edge of the saga’s books/se­ries. You can eas­ily pick up and read one as your first ven­ture in this world.

You Do NOT Need an eReader

Free Apps to pur­chase ebooks di­rectly from your com­puter or other de­vices are avail­able for mul­ti­ple op­er­at­ing sys­tems like  Win­dows, OS X, An­droid, iOS and some­times Linux. If you later buy a de­vice, all of your pre­vi­ously pur­chased books from the de­vice's ven­dor will load to your new de­vice as well as still being avail­able through your ven­dor-based app on your com­puter.

• Kindle Apps (AZW/Mobi)
• Nook Apps (EPUB)
• KoboBooks Apps (EPUB)

Homeward, II: The Feral Path — on iTunes

All ap­pears sta­ble after the re­lease of Home­ward, I: The Game Piece on iTunes. So it is time to ex­pand of­fer­ings for Tales from the world of the Noble Dead Saga through our newest ven­dor.

Home­ward, II: The Feral Path has been up­loaded to the  iTunes store and should be avail­able soon for all iOS de­vices. Keep in mind that any de­vice using iOS can also load apps for our other ven­dors. If you used one of those on your iPod, iPad, or iPhone, you do not need to buy this title a sec­ond time. And at pre­sent, there are no apps for non-iOS de­vices… not even a Mac.

We hope that last part changes in the near fu­ture, as we are big ad­vo­cates of peo­ple being able to pur­chase and read ebooks with­out hav­ing to buy yet an­other de­vice… un­less they want to. Freely test­ing out read­ing ebooks for the first time is just as im­por­tant as sam­pling ebooks them­selves.

Tales Update – Change of Schedule

J.C. has been over­whelmed with two Noble Dead books in over­lap­ping phases, our on­line pur­suits and prob­lem solv­ing, and man­ag­ing the sit­u­a­tion with ven­dors and their por­tals. He is still work­ing on Bones of the Earth, II: Kar­ras the Cat when spare mo­ments allow as the se­quel to BotE, I: Kar­ras the Kit­ten. So the “Tales” re­lease for Sep­tem­ber will be Home­ward, V: The Re­luc­tant Guardian by Barb.

This last tale (for now) in the Home­ward se­quence should be avail­able at all of our stan­dard ven­dors by next week­end after its list­ing is es­tab­lished on our own site. And yes, some new tales se­quences are in the plan­ning phase even now. Any such will likely not debut until early next year after the re­lease of S3B2: The Dog in the Dark in the Noble Dead Saga.

HW5 will not be up at iTunes until J.C. catches up on plac­ing pre­vi­ously re­leased tales at that ven­dor. But, since he has com­pleted the final ver­sion of its cover (an­other of his du­ties), here is a lit­tle peek just to tease you.

That is all for now, dear read­ers, but keep your eyes open for fur­ther news by this com­ing week­end.