How to Make a Box-Set: Lessons Learned by Jane Davis
Jane Davis How to Plan a Box-Set In 2014 I experimented with producing two box-sets, firstly releasing my own three novel box-set, and then collaborating with six other authors to produce a multi-author limited edition box-set. 'Outside the Box: Women Writing Women' a bundle of 7 novels by 7 different authors in a limited edition. I called my own box-set Second Chapter as it contains what I consider to be the results of the second chapter in my journey as an author, which began after my first novel, Half-truths and White Lies won the Daily Mail First Novel Award in 2009 and was published by Transworld. Second Chapter contains three full-length novels, I Stopped Time , These Fragile Things, and A Funeral for an Owl . The idea was simple. I wanted to attract new readers by offering three books for the price of two. Of course, single author box sets are the perfect solution for authors who write a series, as JJ Marsh explained about her European...