After some deliberation, I’ve decided to unpublish the two omnibus bundles for my Star Wanderers series: The Jeremiah Chronicles and Tales of the Far Outworlds.
In place of the omnibus editions, I plan to release Star Wanderers: The Complete Series on all platforms. Currently, it’s only available on Kobo. Eventually, I’ll put it out in print as well, but until then the omnibus print editions will still be up. All of the singles are still available in print and ebook, and will be for the foreseeable future.
When I wrote the Star Wanderers series back in 2011–2014, it was, in many ways, an experiment. Instead of writing one long book with four or five viewpoint characters, I decided to write eight shorter books, where each one focused on one character’s story and told it in greater depth. The first four books were all from Jeremiah’s point of view, hence The Jeremiah Chronicles. The other four were each from a different character’s viewpoint, with two viewpoint characters in the last one. Since I already had one bundle, I decided to put them all into a second one. Hence, Tales of the Far Outworlds.
Going forward, though, I don’t think it makes much sense to break up the series this way. Better to have one series bundle with all the books (and the short story “Starchild”), so that they’re all in one place. I don’t have plans to add anything new to this series in the near future, though that may change. If it does, though, it will be its own new thing.
The other advantage to combining all the books into one complete series bundle is that it makes it easier to put the whole thing out in audio. One of the things I want to do this year is produce an audiobook, and I think that Star Wanderers will do better as a single, longer audiobook that costs one or two credits than as eight short books that cost one credit each. But that’s still somewhere in the mid-future.
It’s the end of an era for me, but I think it’s for the best. Star Wanderers: The Complete Series will be available on all ebookstores later this month.
