That’s according to Jane Austen, anyway, and who are we to disagree with the author of Pride and Prejudice? If she speaks the truth, though, then how exactly do we explain Hal’s desire to get our monster of a book, One Bride for Seven Brothers: The Complete Saga, into print? Vanity or pride?
Oh, that’s easy. It was vanity, no question.
(For scale, we've positioned a paperback of Ira Levin’s The Stepford Wives beside Saga. When Levin was at the top of his game, he was marvelous. Wives is worth your attention. If you’ve never read his first novel, A Kiss Before Dying, you’re missing out.)
We have paper editions of all our other books, but we’d never taken the time to get Saga ready for print. There were reasons, but the largest one (ha!) is that our Moby Dick of a novel is nearly as long as Moby Dick. It’s four times as long as The Stepford Wives.
For its hardcover publications, Amazon has a maximum page count of 550 pages. Throw in the title page, copyright info, and a dedication, and Saga clocked in at… 550 pages. What is the Amazon ask at that length? $29.99 USD for the hardcover, $26.99 for the paperback. As pleased as we are to have a copy, we don't expect anyone to drop thirty bucks for a copy. So, yeah, this was a vanity move.
The book looks great in the bookcase, though.
Oh, that’s easy. It was vanity, no question.
(For scale, we've positioned a paperback of Ira Levin’s The Stepford Wives beside Saga. When Levin was at the top of his game, he was marvelous. Wives is worth your attention. If you’ve never read his first novel, A Kiss Before Dying, you’re missing out.)
We have paper editions of all our other books, but we’d never taken the time to get Saga ready for print. There were reasons, but the largest one (ha!) is that our Moby Dick of a novel is nearly as long as Moby Dick. It’s four times as long as The Stepford Wives.
For its hardcover publications, Amazon has a maximum page count of 550 pages. Throw in the title page, copyright info, and a dedication, and Saga clocked in at… 550 pages. What is the Amazon ask at that length? $29.99 USD for the hardcover, $26.99 for the paperback. As pleased as we are to have a copy, we don't expect anyone to drop thirty bucks for a copy. So, yeah, this was a vanity move.
The book looks great in the bookcase, though.
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