Starship’s Mage: Episodes come down

This blog post was published on January 3, 2016 and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship’s Mage universe.

One year and eighteen days ago, the Omnibus of all five Episodes of the original Starship’s Mage went up.

Since then, I’ve been wondering at what point to take the individual episodes down. Someone buying all five of them actually paid me less than someone buying the cheaper Omnibus.

We went through a number of hoops trying to make clear the distinction between the ‘Episodes’ and the ‘Books’ on Amazon, but I’d worried that it was confusing people.

I got a message today from a reader who was very confused by the transition from Episode 1 to Book 2 to Episode 3. They’d lost track of the timeline, because they’d ended up reading a large chunk of the story out of order.

This is… not the optimal reading order for the Starship’s Mage books, and I wouldn’t want any of my readers to go through it that way! Since my best efforts have clearly failed to avoid confusion, I took the individual episodes 2 through 5 down this afternoon from Amazon (the only place they were still available).

Episode 1 will remain available as a free promotion for the series, and, of course, the Starship’s Mage Omnibus remains available.