23 May 2025

Prices schmices

If you've been following book news lately, you'll have heard that Amazon KDP is reducing their royalties for paperbacks sold under $9.99.

Three of my books are caught under this:

The Painted Hall Collection ($6.99)
Coexist ($6.99)
Dongeng ($8.99)

Amazon has notified me that I'll be earning 0 on these books if I don't adjust the price by their deadline of 10 June... :(

Since I have to adjust the prices anyway, I'm planning on doing a complete price restructuring as well as a massive update of all the backmatter... once I'm done with our Penang Writing Workshops & retreat.

So if you do want a paperback copy of any of my books, especially the three listed above, at these "now-discounted" (lol) prices, get them by Sunday, 8 June. (Gotta leave some buffer for unexpected upload errors.)

ALL MY BOOKS ON AMAZON

I'm also experimenting with books.by, a new direct storefront with POD capabilities, so if you'd like to give that a chance, hop on over to my new international storefront! It offers flat rate shipping of $5 internationally, so this'll probably benefit those who aren't already Amazon Prime users.

It currently doesn't have the older titles, mostly because I am a chaos gremlin who hasn't structured her book files in any meaningful way since 2015, but I'm working on it. Once I find and update the files.

books.by store

Of course, if you're Malaysian, you can still get all the books directly from me. No pesky conversion rates, and cheaper local shipping.

Teaspoon Publishing

Now, how about a sale?

Amok was selected for Kobo's May Long Weekend 2025 promotion from 23 to 27 May.

Which means, since I handle most ebooks through Draft2Digital, it should be on sale at $0.99 everywhere except Amazon and Google Play.

Amok on Kobo

Other titles in the US Kobo SFF sales

Note: This list only appears if you're on the US site, since it's a US promo, but the discount is applicable worldwide. If you can't access the link, just search for the title in your country site! :)

ALSO THEY FINALLY PUT AMOK ON KOBO PLUS, EVEN THOUGH I TICKED YES FOR THAT OPTION SINCE FOREVER. Now I have to figure out why the rest of the series isn't on it yet.

*technology, sigh*

Updates on Honour!

I've been sitting on this a bit, but I'm almost finished with final edits for this, uh, novelette. It is no longer a short story, as much as I tried. But at any rate, I'll end this newsletter with a first look at Honour's cover, by the wonderful Dhiyanah Hassan!

The current launch date will be on 2 June, ASSUMING I'm that efficient. Well, either way, you'll find out in about 10 days!

Back to editing!

anna

Check out Anna's Books

The Absolution Series

Honour (prequel) - coming soon!

Amok (#1)

The Tale of the Hostage Prince (#1.5)

Absolution (#2)

The Fairy Tale Series

Coexist

Dongeng

The Painted Hall Collection

The Painted Hall Collection consists of 4 short stories that are also available as singles, plus an exclusive short story set in the Absolution world: