Hardback versus ebook: Sword of Light by Katherine Roberts
Today is the official publication of SWORD OF LIGHT , Book 1 of my Pendragon quartet for young readers about King Arthur’s daughter, published by Templar . I’m unreasonably excited by this because: * it’s my first new book since “I am the Great Horse” back in 2007 and * it’s a hardcover… a beautiful, shimmery, pearly blue hardcover with artwork by the talented Scott Altmann . Unlike most other books listed here, it’s not an ebook yet (the ebook is scheduled for when the paperback edition comes out in the summer), so why am I talking about it here? Well, because I think it’s interesting to compare the publication journey of a traditional hardcover such as "Sword of Light" to that of an independently produced ebook like the others on this site. 1. TIME I started writing my Pendragon series and developing the characters back in 2009, when the TV version of Merlin was just a glimmer in the eye of BBC3. In the absence of an agent (my lovely agent Magg...