As I’m slogging through all of this reformatting, it occured to me that it might also be a good idea to put my Melanie Fletcher books and anthos wide as well. Granted, the two FutureClassics anthos (Tales from a Lone Star: A Future Classics Anthology, Volume One and A Lone Star in the Sky: A Future Classics Anthology Volume Two) and my alt-history mystery A Most Malicious Murder were already wide but none of them were in Google Play, and my SF and fantasy short story collection Random Realities had just gotten out of KU so that needed to be put everywhere.

While my Nicola books are most definitely my moneymakers, I think I’m going to get these four titles reformatted and put wide before I do any more work on the romances because they won’t require nearly as much line reading, and I need a bit of a break from that. Plus I may even do a new cover for Random Realities—I’d published it in 2012 and cover requirements have changed significantly since then.

One thing—Realities has a 6×9″ trim, unlike all of my other books with their 5.25×8″ trims. And the printing price increases at Amazon will result in significantly higher printing costs for 6×9″ trim books, which makes it logical to take the trim size down to 5.25×8″. Thing is, the only way to change the trim size is to unpublish and republish the book with a new ISBN (since trim sizes are linked to ISBNs). If I’m going to do all that, I may as well add in a bunch more short stories that I’ve written since 2012, right? Bump up the number from 10 to 20 stories, shrink the trim size, and I should wind up with a book of a reasonable size (the old version of Realities is technically novella length so that’s one slim book).

Ramón is right. I do keep making rods for my own back.