KEN WILLIAMS

The book was just released in Print, Epub, PDF and Kindle formats on Oct 1st! This is a list below of places that the book can be ordered. The quick story is that it is available at Amazon.com, and Lulu.com, as well as most everywhere that books are sold. 

Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings, by Ken Williams
AVAILABLE NOW!

The hardcover version of the book is now available!!!

This is the very first delivered copy of the hardcover edition!

The hardcover edition is very nice, but I can’t honestly say that it exceeded expectations (whereas the paperback did!) Whether or not it is worth the incremental cost over the paperback edition, I will leave up to your discretion. For me, it wouldn’t be.

To help you decide, here are links to pictures of the two, side by side:

Front covers (hardcover on left)

Back covers (hardcover on left)

Page with pictures from interior (hardcover on left)

Page with picture from hardcover version

Page with picture from paperback version

Once you order a copy, send me via email (ken@kensblog.com) something showing you ordered it, and your mailing address, and I’ll send you back a link to the PDF you can download (free), so that you can start reading while waiting on the printers. 

The hardcover version is $60, and I apologize for this. It’s expensive to print the book! This is the actual print cost. 

I am sorry, but Roberta and I are not offering autographs (autographed bookplates) at this time. If you emailed me and I wrote you back, you are on the list and should receive yours soon.  But there may be another opportunity… 

Roberta has a new book coming (www.robertasbook.com) sometime in the next couple of months. I don’t know yet if she is going to offer signed bookplates or not.  

UPDATE (10/28/2020), for those of you who requested a bookplate prior to the cutoff. I am working on sending out the bookplates. WAY MORE of them were ordered than I was expecting. I have re-ordered the labels and envelopes twice. I’ve also had to start over a couple of times, as I realized that I needed to do more to protect them, so that they’d arrive in good condition. The ones going to the United States were sent a couple days ago and the ones going internationally are going out (via Fed Ex) over the next couple of days. Thank you for your patience!

Well … I think so, but I’m biased. I’ll be very curious what you think! 

It is selling VERY well! I’m not quite sure why it is #1 at amazon for Game Programming when it isn’t a programming book, but if they are happy, I am happy! 

• Autobiographical: Including the story of how Roberta and I met.
• Business Strategies: Sierra’s marketing, product and acquisition strategies.
• Roberta’s games: Behind the scenes on the making of Mystery House, Wizard and the Princess, and King’s Quest 8
• Fun Stuff: Along the way I met with people like: Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Jim Henson, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Johnny Hart, Daryl Gates, John Travolta, etc. There are some stories of those encounters that I thought might interest readers.
• Opinions: I am often asked, “How do I break into the games business?”.  I give my perspective on that topic. There’s also a chapter that many people won’t relate to, but that readers who are software developers will have strong opinions on. I give my vision of what makes good code, and how debugging should be done.
• Softporn: Background on the infamous photo shoot.
• Litigation: Sierra’s Atari lawsuit over Pacman
• The PC Jr: How Sierra almost died in 1983 but was saved by IBM
• Management: Sierra had nearly 1,000 employees scattered all over the world. I talk about how I was able to manage the operation while maintaining creativity
• What happened? Why did Sierra collapse: The behind the scenes story of what ripped Sierra apart at the end.

The book is being sold now! The printed copy, PDF verrsion and EPUB version can be ordered at www.lulu.com and should appear on Amazon.com within weeks. The Kindle version is already available on the Amazon Kindle store.

Yes. The book can be shipped to virtually every country.

Absolutely! The PDF and EPUB versions are available now at www.lulu.com and the Kindle version is on the Amazon.com website

That’s in the book! The quick story was that our boating season was canceled by the virus and I was stuck home quarantined with nothing to do and Roberta said, “Maybe you could write a book.”

I’m planning to do exactly zero press tours or interviews. I will probably link to the book on my website and social media, but I am not planning on “marketing” the book. I’m enjoying retirement! My days as a publisher are long over. I’ll make it possible for fans and people who are interested to find the book but do not want to push it. 

Absolutely! There was no ghost writer involved.