The GG Anniversary Editions are here!

Hi Everyone!

I hope you’re all having a great start of summer! For me, personally, I was actually on holiday last week, so I wasn’t able to post on June 14th to wish everyone a HAPPY GALLAGHER GIRLS ANNIVERSARY EDITION PUBLICATION DAY!

It’s very hard for me to believe that the Gallagher Girl series is ten years old (I’D TELL YOU I LOVE YOU BUT THEN I’D HAVE TO KILL YOU was published in 2006).

And I’m so grateful to Disney-Hyperion for putting the books out into the world and now for putting them out again with all new covers–and six new epilogues!

Now, some housekeeping stuff.

eBOOK FILES
As you probably heard before the new editions came out, if you purchased one of the Gallagher Girls books in eBook form (in the US and Canada) then the file was supposed to update to the new version (with the new covers/epilogues) on June 14th.

I’m hearing from many of you, however, that the books either didn’t update at all or that only one of them did.

This is a problem on the technical side of things (and, needless to say, I don’t do that). Thank you all for letting me know what is going on. I have passed it on to Disney-Hyperion who has, I believe, discussed it with the various accounts.

I think we know what the problem is, and I’m hoping that the people with the expertise/access to fix the problem will get on that ASAP.

 

Will the new epilogues be available in other countries?
Yes. And no.

My awesome Australian publisher will be putting out the books with the new covers and epilogues later this month! Yay!

And my other publishers (like Orchard in the UK) have been given the epilogues to use as they see fit. It remains to be seen if/when that will happen, but it’s out of my hands now, I’m afraid.

 

What if you already have the books?
This has always been the downside of doing special/new editions of any book.

A lot of you have asked if I can put the new epilogues up on my site (or sell just them, or do something) because you already have copies of the original editions.

The answer, again, is yes. And no.

All of the bonus material I have ever written has ended up on AllyCarter.com eventually. But it may be a few years before I have clearance to do that.

You see, doing these editions cost a lot of money, and so accounts and publishers need some time for that new content to be exclusive to them. If/when that is not the case, I will likely post the epilogues here.

In the meantime, I highly recommend you visit with your local librarian and see if your library can either order the new editions (a lot of librarians have told me their copies of the original books were getting worn and they needed to update anyway) and/or get the new editions through inter-library loan.

Rest assured, there are free, legal ways to get the epilogues. It might take a little effort, I’m afraid. But it took me quite a lot of effort to write them, so I hope you’ll all agree that the trade-off is pretty fair.

 

Thank you all again for ten great years.

Here’s hoping for ten more!

Ally