The artist does knitted work and illustrations, the illustration section is here.
Ended up getting about 400 downloads in total. Curious to see if it results in more reviews/sales down the line.
Rights for the first two are still up in the air. Evidently someone bought Angry Robot, so maybe once that's announced I'll find out if they want to keep the rights, or if I can get them back. If the rights are returned I'll put them up myself, and won't need a Kickstarter to do so as they're already edited. Though I'm not sure if I'd be able to use my existing covers or if I'll have to commission new ones. I am still in bookshops here and there, which is good, but according to Amazon Central and TCM in the UK, my sales are so-so.
Your publisher will probably have licensed specific rights to the image used, and paid a designer to come up with the design for them to use. You will have to relicense the image and get permission from the designer to use that cover; you'll also have to get your own ISBN, and perhaps even write new sales copy for the back cover if your publisher wrote it for you.
If I were you I'd assume that you have do produce new everything.
Also, check your contract to ensure you're allowed to use the edited version of your book: some publishers prohibit this, although it is usually the smaller ones which place such limitations on their authors.
Once the rights are back, I don't think you have to share whether it was previously published or not. I'm not sure.
Thanks lauralam. My luck, I'll get the same buyers purchasing this one so I might make mention...
Hi there. I am on the road to becoming a hybrid. I'm excited about taking charge of my own work. I always held back simply because I felt I was not experienced enough or have enough knowledge to pursue self publishing. After several releases with three different small presses, I am ready to take the plunge. I will be receiving my rights back for one of my books (book two in the series is still with the publisher until summer) My reversion of rights will take place in the next few weeks. Anyone ever self pub a book that was in your back list but was always an ebook? This particular book hasn't sold hundreds of copies but I'm assuming a disclaimer stating this was a previously published book? How do you handle such a thing. Anyone have any experience with this? I would appreciate any feedback. Thanks
I've not self-published, so can't advise you. I can however wish you luck and millions in sales.
Hi there. I am on the road to becoming a hybrid. I'm excited about taking charge of my own work. I always held back simply because I felt I was not experienced enough or have enough knowledge to pursue self publishing. After several releases with three different small presses, I am ready to take the plunge. I will be receiving my rights back for one of my books (book two in the series is still with the publisher until summer) My reversion of rights will take place in the next few weeks. Anyone ever self pub a book that was in your back list but was always an ebook? This particular book hasn't sold hundreds of copies but I'm assuming a disclaimer stating this was a previously published book? How do you handle such a thing. Anyone have any experience with this? I would appreciate any feedback. Thanks