Rather than clutter up a dozen threads with the new indie releases I figured on doing a one-stop shop... there's method to my madness. Honest.
Over the last 10 years I've sold almost 750,000 books in 12 languages at the last count - this is my day job. It's the only job I am remotely qualified to do, and the only one I can imagine doing for more than a week without going postal... now, last year I wrote a novel London Macabre which I think, after 20 books and lots of trying is just about perfect. My agent described it as the bastard love child of Neil Gaiman and Philip Pullman. It's sold into hardcover in Poland, but in the UK and US every editor has come back saying 'This is amazing, but we have no idea how to sell it' and the senior editor of one of the very biggest publishing houses in the UK actually suggested I self pub it because it's got all the makings of a cult book. I'm seriously considering it, I'll be honest, but my ebook sales are poor in contrast to my bricks and mortar bookstore sales. So I'm doing something a bit different. I've put up a handful of new indie releases direct to kindle, including some unpublished material to test the waters... if there's enough of a response I will seriously consider going 'all indie' and taking control of my career in a very different way... success or failure though will be down to reaching readers in a way I haven't had to try before. Before I could just rely upon the books being in B&N and Borders and Waterstones etc... so it's a bit scary.
Anyway, the two new releases are, in no particular order:
Gods and Monsters:
http://www.amazon.com/Gods-and-Monst...t_at_ep_dpi_10
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gods-and-Mon...4330650&sr=1-4
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/34631
Steven Savile shocks us with three tales of gods, ghosts and golems. He expertly guides us down the path man will take—or perhaps has already taken—in his quest to breathe life into his own soulless creations. But this can only be accomplished by committing the ultimate sin… murder.
The murder of God.
The Forgetting Wood
http://www.amazon.com/The-Forgetting...4330787&sr=1-8
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Forgetti...4330678&sr=1-6
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/34545
The Complete Hoke Berglund Stories:
The death of a beloved children's writer, Hoke Berglund, draws Jon Sieber into a world he cannot hope to understand - a world filled with Hoke's creations, including the vile Mr. Self Affliction who is the cruel master of this place. In a world where angels are beautiful women and the by-blows of nightmares people the mythical Forgetting Wood, Jon, heir apparent to all that Hoke created, falls for Kristen, the writer's daughter, but cannot let her secret remain secret.
They're both very different in nature... one almost mythic, one almost fairy tale... The Forgetting Wood is my absolute favourite piece of writing ever, and I really hope some of you will take a gamble on it, and let me know what you think of it.
Of course the other books in my sig are still there, begging to be read... so... I'm on the precipice... ready to leap... gimme the encouragement I need.
Steve