Final Stage Three Update

I have come up with a solution to work around the lengthy update process with Amazon.  Even though the process was frustrating during the release of Stage Two back in late May, I couldn't let it keep me from my task of self-publishing Monarch. I like a challenge as much as the next guy, and my challenge after the release of Stage Two was to figure out a way to deliver each of the last two stages of Monarch without major "technical" issues.

The plan is this:  At Midnight on September 22, 2012 Monarch: Chrysalis (Cocoon) will be available Free of charge for five days.  It will only be available at Amazon and Smashwords.  Currently the Amazon page has it listed for $199.00. If you were to purchase it now, you would get a one page document telling you outdated information.  Do not buy it.  When it becomes available for free the book will be missing the last chapter.  I repeat.  When Stage Three becomes available on September 22nd for free, it will contain three of the four chapters that make up Stage Three.

Owners of the Amazon version of Monarch, the four-part serial novel, will receive their updates at some point.  When that is?  I cannot control and cannot tell you.  I can, however, control the release of Monarch: Chrysalis (Cocoon) as an individual Stage Three eBook.  It is separate from the omnibus novel that requires an update for each new stage upon their release.

Should you want to read the rest of Stage Three, and I hope you do, you will either have to wait for your kindle version of Monarch to update (and I will inform you when I find out anything) or you will have to pay $1.99 to know what happens.  The full version of Stage Three, all four chapters, will be available October 1st.

My readers are the reason I have chosen to release Stage Three, and likely Stage Four, in this way.  Three out of four chapters for everyone, to me, seems more fair to those who bought Monarch, than to just go ahead and release Stage Three.  This way I include my most loyal readers who have been with Ginger and myself ever since the bookstore.  The update with all of Stage Three will be available at some point, and those readers will be able to finish the last chapter.

As for everyone else? You guys do not know and won't have to deal with the frustrations that the others had to deal with.  Rejoice!  From midnight this Friday night until midnight on next Wednesday everyone will be able to read Monarch: Chrysalis (Cocoon), minus the last chapter, for free.

Regardless of the eBook technical issues and my attempts to be judicious with the release of Stage Three, the entirety of Stage Three will be available for sale on October 1st.

I believe I can say with certainty that the update for Stage Three will be available before the release of Stage Four on November 10th.  That's far more time than it took for Stage Two to finally update. The final chapter will suck you right back in and deposit you in the quaint little town of Millers Ridge near James Ruth's farm.

Enjoy.  And thanks for reading.

-aap