It’s crazy, squiders. My first book, Hidden Worlds, is 10 years old.
(The first edition came out Dec 2009, and the revised second edition, published through Turtleduck Press, came out in late 2010, complete with change in pen name and everything.)
First of all, wow, where the heck did the time go?
Second of all, wow, that’s kind of a big deal, and it feels like I should do something to celebrate.
But what? And how?
I’ve not had a book reach a 10th anniversary before.
Do I put out a new edition, with new material? What kind of new material? Notes on how the story came together? Old unpublished versions of scenes (and man, do I even know where those are?)? New stories in the same universe (I wrote one recently for my newsletter subscribers)?
Do I put out related swag? Bookmarks? Character profiles? Art of the characters?
Do I do a whole promotional blitz?
What would you, as a reader, be interested in seeing? What would be really cool to see in relation to a book that’s been out for a while?
Too many options. Woo.
(Do you know of any other books that did cool things for their anniversaries? I’d love to check them out.)
