itch.io – JC Eberdt

Publishing Mystery

jceberdt — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 12:11:55 +0000

The Half Elven Orphan is the first book I’ve published and I’ve done it independently, so everything is a new experience. First off, it looks like I’ve actually sold some books. Not enough to buy more than a junk food lunch, but it’s not zero. My primary channel is Ingram Spark and they have a dashboard where you can see where sales have been made. To my great surprise, the first four print books that have showed up there have been sold in Germany. I mean, I do know people in Germany, but them buying more than one or two books when I’ve already told them I will give them copies for free doesn’t make sense. It stands to reason, then, that these must be other Germans. Which is very odd. My website has almost no traffic from Germany that I can’t match to people I know.

Beyond that, I know that there must be some e-book sales too, as the book has a sales rank on some e-book only sites, but they haven’t showed up yet. So, thanks (or Dankeschön) everyone who has bought one. For e-book buyers, there will be another sale over on itch.io starting the 17th of December. I still highly recommend itch if you want the e-book. No DRM, it comes with a pdf with a a Table of Contents and Glossary and files for the artwork and map. Oh, and they give the author a far large proportion of the proceeds.

Itch.io Sale

jceberdt — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:41:07 +0000

I managed to forget I joined the black friday bandwagon. Best e-book offer is on sale over on itch.io for only a little bit longer. If you want the e-book I strongly recommend the itch version as it comes with an expanded pdf with glossary and table of contents, cover art and a map. The … Continue reading

Halloween Sale 50% Off!

jceberdt — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 09:52:13 +0000

Hey everyone, I decided to join in on the Halloween sale over on itch.io:

The Half Elven Orphan by JC Eberdt

I’m still in the early stages of my journey through services like itch.io, so I thought I’d give it a try for a few days.

This book doesn’t have a Halloween theme (no more than fantasy in general does). If you really stretch it, Samhain has something to do with Fae which has something to do with elves which have something to do with half-elves, so let’s go with that.

The Half Elven Orphan itch.io release!

jceberdt — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 20:46:14 +0000

I just released The Half Elven Orphan on itch.io.

You can find it here.

The Half Elven Orphan by JC Eberdt

I decided to go with itch.io first for a number of reasons. First off, it allows me to give epub readers a pdf version with the cover art and a map. Second, I can update things in future and buyers can easily re-download. Third, they pay authors far better, which for now, means more (human) artwork and real editors in future.

For those of you who want a print version or want it in their customary library, the big sites will follow soon(tm). It’s much harder to update things there, so I’m being rather more meticulous about the whole thing.