Orders will ship within seven business days from the following day you placed the order as long as its placed during a weekday. Orders placed on weekends have the potential to take longer.
Depending on where you live shipping times from the moment it’s shipped to it arriving on your doorstep can very. This is a factor out of my control and is subject to any and all potential delays.
Shipping both nationally and internationally is calculated at check out. Shipping cost is dependent on the number of items in your order.
Please allow a minimum of one week between placing the order and receiving the shipping notification. If this changes, you will be contacted.
An email confirmation will be sent immediately to the email address listed in the order at checkout.
Our packaging includes:
Yes! Wherever I can, I will use environmentally friendly packaging. All paper and cardboard is biodegradable and can either be recycled in your recycling or disposed of correctly in other methods.
International shipping depends on the order size and location it will be sent to. This will be calculated at checkout.
I do not accept returns.
As a small business, the loss of replacing a damage item can be severely detrimental to the business. To help avoid any potential risks of your items being damaged that are within my control, all orders are packed carefully and securely and are accompanied by pictures of your packed order within the shipping confirmation!
I’m so sorry to hear that! As I do not accept returns, refunds are not typically accepted. Unless there is an issue as a result of the packaging, no refund will be submitted.
No, I do not. The only exception is as long as the items haven’t been processed or shipped and the items are still in my possession. Once shipped no refund is available.
Once all orders leave my hands, I am not responsible for any damages that may occur as a result of the postage and delivery sector. The factors in shipping environment are out of my control and I do not possess the ability or skills outside of my standard packing methods to alter those factors.
Hardcover editions are only available to purchase through my store.
At this point in time, you can only purchase physical books from my store and not other bookstores and retailers. There are various reasons as to why I have chosen not to distribute at this time, but mainly due to the way I have chosen to publish.
This is such a broad question. Basically, I was napping one day and had a dream about a monster coming out of the tree in my backyard and fast forward the first draft was written! It’s changed a lot since then so one day I would like to go back to the original idea.
As an independent author in Australia the cost of printing the books are expensive, and fronting the cost myself without a Publishing team behind me means I have to be cost considerate.
The prices of the books are priced to cover the cost of printing them as well as enough of a profit to print the next batch.
It feeds my feline children. Jks jks, I personally don’t make a liveable wage from the purchasing of the books but what does happen is I am then able to continue to order more stock of my books and as each book is written, the funds from sales go into the business which then pays for things such as editors, cover artists etc and everything else that goes into publishing a book.
The prices of the physical books include
Meaning, each book pays for itself and a future book. Any left-over funds goes into the business piggy savings which is then used to pay for editors and future expenses of publishing a book.
This is such a broad question. Basically, I was napping one day and had a dream about a monster coming out of the tree in my backyard and fast forward the first draft was written! It’s changed a lot since then so one day I would like to go back to the original idea.
Tracking numbers need time to become active. If it’s been a couple days since your order has shipped and it still isn’t working, get in contact and we can work towards resolving the issue for you.
Sometimes technology sucks, so get in contact and we can resend the email!
If your order hasn’t left inventory and been shipped, get in touch as soon as you can, and you can be refunded!
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I look exactly like my author profile picture believe it or not! (The artist was so good oh, my goodness)
I am twenty-four!
Australia.
I started writing from a young age (think peak 1D Wattpad days) and didn’t start properly writing until grade 11 English where I would write poetry and short essay stories.
It wasn’t until I attended University for a semester, achieved high marks while writing the first draft of the book that would two years later become A VAULT OF NINE LIVES, that I dropped out a pursed it professionally.
Sadly, and truthfully, I don’t. I came into publishing and writing alone with no industry connections and still don’t to this day. All partners I’ve worked with have been sourced by my own research (google bae) and are mostly freelancers!
I’m not always comfortable with showcasing myself and much prefer to keep the focus on the book. However, there are occasionally posts from other readers, friends etc that I’ve been tagged in and you can see me there. In order to keep myself safe, and healthy while taking care of my mental health I prefer to stay out of the limelight.
I don’t want to speak for future me because I don’t know where she’ll be or how her career will progress so while I, right now, prefer self-publishing I am not completely ruling out the future possibility of career change.
No I do not.
As of January 2023, I will be!
There were a lot of reasons and factors swaying my decision. The most notable is the ability to have full creative control. I talk more about my decision in my blog posts.
Yes and no. Every author is different. Every author has different goals and wants to achieve different things. For me self-publishing was right and others its traditional publishing they want. I encourage all aspiring authors to conduct their own research to decide what path is best for them.
I am very fortunate that I had the ability to obtain not one but two jobs to help fund my writing career. Self-publishing isn’t cheap, especially the path I chose, and I work 50 – 60 hour weeks to support myself, my cats and my business. I am the sole financial supporter and funder. My second job is what solely funded the start up to my business and book one A VAULT OF NINE LIVES. It does still occasionally support the business, while my other job provides for my financially and my livelihood.
Scorpius Publishing is a Micro Publishing House created and ran by me, Shelly Anne Claire, to help support my own workings.
I do – Shelly Anne Claire!
In September of 2022.
My star sign is a Scorpio and while looking at a star chart of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres I spotted the constellation and it felt right.
