New Omnibus Edition collects the five plays from the Fairly Obscure Fairy Tale Plays series all in one volume!

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Anyone remember those old Toys R Us commercials where Jeffery would scream, “Big Savings!” then whisper calmly, “That’s my big toy book voice.” 

No? 

That is a shame because it’s been replaying in my head for easily a decade. 

Anyway I, like the late Jeffery, come bearing Big Savings! 

Namely, a special collected edition that lets you get all five Tale of Tales plays for the price of just three! 

(I had to pause here to look up if there is a difference between an anthology and a omnibus and apparently anthology is for when you collect multiple works from different authors while omnibus is like this, collected works all from the same author. You learn something new every day! Now what was I talking about again…?)

This is one of those things people have been requesting forever, but it was never the most important thing I had to do so it just kept getting pushed down the proverbial list of things to do. But I finally got around to doing it so, take that procrastination! 

This edition is eBook only. My thought process is that people will want this for reading and previewing the plays and if they actually want to produce one of them, they’ll can just contact me directly for acting editions. Since I can hook them up at a discount over buying individual copies and that’s more cost effective. 

But maybe I’m totally wrong about this so if you have a burning need for a paperback copy, let me know! If enough people are interested, I will set one up.

Where’s Vardiello?

While this does collect all the Fairly Obscure Fairy Tale Plays, it does not actually include all of my Tale of Tales plays. That is because Vardiello is exclusively available through Brooklyn Publishers.  

Not a huge issue, I think, since that one doesn’t group as nicely as the others in this collection as it’s a very different cast size and length, but just in case someone was wondering why it wasn’t included, that’s why. 

Legacy vs Self-Publishing: How do you know which one is right for your work?

Short answer? It depends.

On the work, your plans for it, your platform and even the intended audience or content of the work itself.

This is a question I get all the time when I’m teaching writing workshops and, since this Tale of Tales series is basically the ideal opportunity to peel back the curtain and show you how the sauce is made, I wanted to make today’s post a little behind-the-scenes of this project specifically and why I choose this particular distribution configuration: a combo of legacy and indie published titles. 

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