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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...

One of the drawbacks of Indie authorship is that you're a one-man (or in my case a one-woman) band. You have to do what would normally involve an office full of people in traditional publishing all on your own. You are author, editor, proof-reader, publisher, printer and publicist. It can be exhausting and is one of the main reasons cited by authors for dropping out of the cyber-publishing sphere. It's also very hard for one person - a minnow in a very large lake - to make much of a splash. So, when Australian author, musician and book designer Jessica Bell came up with the idea of some of us banding together to publish a Box Set of novels, it was the kind of intriguing experiment I couldn't refuse. 3D cover by Jessica Bell There are seven of us.  It might have been more, but some authors decided that they didn't want to commit their work to a group project and risk losing individual sales.  So we became 'The Magnificent Seven'. We're all members ...