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Well, I'm not going to respond to each person individually. There's too many posts for that. I will say in order to answer the concerns I see here that I chose Saturday, because I am not only off this Saturday, but the rest of my family is gone for the weekend and I have time to relax and do all I want to, not what everyone else wants. During the week I am too busy trying to cram a few hours of writing in before heading off to work and doing the various "honey-do" chores my wife has for me.
No one needs to lurk about in here wondering when I will make my book available. I was very concise and exact when I posted that it will be available for free from 1pm - 2pm Pacific Standard time and again the same night from midnight 12am - 1am. What's confusing about that? The only thing I hedged about was when someone suggested I make it available for people on the other side of the world from me, which is why I added the second time slot.
Why make it only one hour instead of an entire day? Hell if I know. It just seemed like a good idea. If I think there's any interest perhaps I'll make it available again or for a longer period today. I had my ebook "Pumpkin Jack Skull and Other Tales of Terror" for free on Smashwords for several months before charging for it. It made it to the top four on Smashwords for downloads.
Why have it on Smashwords where people have to go and register? Everywhere I have found (including this place) each person needs to register to use the place. It happens to be the place I discovered first where I could upload my books instead of having them waste away on my computer doing nothing. Smashwords is an extremely helpful and encouraging place for authors of every kind. Mark Coker, who started it, has answered each of my emails and been more than friendly and helpful.
My books are all available on Amazon.com, too, but as far as I know (I'm still new with Amazon) I can't offer my books for free there. If there's a way to do that, someone please let me know, but then again, anyone who isn't already registered with Amazon will have to register and their ebooks are available ONLY on Kindle. I don't even own a Kindle. Why should I expect anyone else to buy one just to read my books?
On Smashwords at least each person who doesn't own any type of ereader can download a story to their PC, like I do.
My ebooks are available on all the various ereaders (Thanks once again to Mark Coker and Smashwords), like iPad, KOBO, B&K. But as far as I know you have to have their particular ereader to read from their site. I don't own any ereader, so I don't know for sure.
Did I answer everything well enough?
If my promotion isn't to your liking - don't go and get my book. Doesn't matter to me. I don't read every book that comes along, either, free or not. I just thought it would be nice for people to be able to read it for free and would help me in promoting all of my books. Isn't that what this place is for, or am I mistaken in my understanding here? So why am I being dogged by angry, irritating people who don't want my books anyway? It's a simple fact: if you don't want to read my book, don't read it. No one is twisting your arm and I wouldn't even if I could.
I thank Ed O'Dell for giving me this idea. I at least thought it was a good idea and it got me to look at his book, even if it wasn't free any longer.
Is this enough of an answer?
Thanks for letting me rant on back at ya.
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