My first novel, Down Home Murder–the first Laura Fleming mystery, was published over twenty years ago, but as is more common than not with fiction, it went out of print long ago. I wrote eight books in that series, and there was a never time when all of them were in print at the same time.
Then I moved on to the Where are they now? series, and wrote three books in that series. All of them are out of print, too.
But here’s the nifty thing about being a writer today. Every one of my novels is available again!
Earlier this year, Audible brought out audio downloads of every one of the eight Laura Fleming novels:
http://www.audible.com/series?asin=B00C2TX018&source_code=SCLGB906MWS082913
As soon as those were up, they put out the Where are they now? books:
http://www.audible.com/series?asin=B00CF04SKG&source_code=SCLGB906MWS082913
Don’t like audio books? No problem. I’m in the process of re-publishing the Laura Fleming books as ebooks. (They were never published in that format before because the format didn’t exist.) The first four books are already out, and with luck the rest will be live by Halloween. You can find links for all of the platforms here:
I cannot tell you how much this delights me. None of these technologies existed when I started writing, yet now my earlier books live again.
Moreover, in between writing novels I’ve co-edited a slew of anthologies with Charlaine Harris, and they’re all available as paper books, ebooks, and audio books. A Skeleton in the Family, my brand-new book written under the pen name Leigh Perry, is out in all those formats, too.
Just thinking about it makes me grin.