"The Shameless Promotion and Endless Plug-Your-Novel Thread" - Page 72

williemeikle · 01-26-2011, 10:12 AM

I love it when a reader is in tune with what I'm trying to do... a stellar review of my Viking vs Yeti novel "Berserker" from Jim McLeod.

http://thegingernutcase.blogspot.com...am-meikle.html

Peter Salisbury · 01-26-2011, 12:46 PM

The First Completely Electronic Robot and Science Fiction Limerick Book

is mere hours away from entering its fifth, yes fifth week free on Amazon UK. If that's not shameless, I don't know what is. Sorry, though, it's not free at Amazon US. However, it is always free wherever you are at smashwords.com.

I also have a new SF short story free at smashwords: Phades ~ Lost Souls: a story about what happens to the people who are dragged into the vortex surrounding a quantum rift and the 'phantoms' that escape from it. This is a free short (1600 word) version of a longer short story (10,000 word) soon to be released.

One of the few short stories only a couple of hundred words longer than a limerick is Ms Fixit, also still free at smashwords. That's the one about the mischievous repair lady.

OK, that's the shameless bit over, now I have something special to share about one of my novels. A contented reader PM'd me this morning about my first novel 'Passengers to Sentience', saying:

"I finished Passengers to Sentience last night and very much enjoyed it. I liked the way you had developed and explored the science around cloning and found the book psychologically convincing. Although there was a lot of science in your science-fiction, even as an arts graduate I found it engaging and never too esoteric and the strong storyline kept me interested all the way through. I think one of your reviewers called it an intelligent read, and this is a quality I look for and do not always find in books."

Sigh! Aren't readers who say things like this just the best!

GlennGThater · 01-26-2011, 03:09 PM

Below is some info on my epic fantasy series, Harbinger of Doom. BTW - Book 1, The Gateway, won 3rd Best Fantasy Novel of 2009 in the Preditors & Editors Readers Poll and is on sale for .99 cents at Amazon.com. All books in the series are available in paperback and ebook versions at such retailers as Barnes and Noble, the Sony ebook store, the Apple Itunes store, Kobobooks.Com, and Smashwords.Com

Summary of Reader Reviews:

“...as good as any fantasy tale you will read, it honors the tradition, and adds to our lore a story so good, so well told, I hope it will be remembered forever.” --- Rai Aren, co-author of Secret of the Sands

“...fast paced and exciting with characters real enough to leap out of the pages...leaves the reader craving more.” --- Franz McLaren, author of Demon Drift and A Night of Dark Delicacies

“...Non-stop action that is written so well you can't stop reading it!” -- G.A. Endless, author of Issla: A Vampire Living in the 21st Century

“...The author paints each scene and battle so clearly that I felt I was in the middle of the action.” --- Mike Monahan, author of Barracuda.

“...The Gateway delivers straight up heroic fantasy with unapologetic hack and slash action.” -- Tracy Falbe, author of The Rys Chronicles

“...fast-paced, action-packed fantasy.” --- Debra Purdy Kong, author of Taxed to Death and Fatal Encryption

“...An adventure into magic and fantasy that pulls you in and does not let go...left me wanting more.”
--- R.M. Putnam, author of Destiny’s Warriors

“...the action never stops.” --- Susan McLeod, author of Soul and Shadow

Thater tells this tale “...in a voice as pretentious as Tolkein’s.” -- Dennis Batchelder, author of Soul Identity and Soul Intent.

“...an excellent foray into dark story adventure.” -- Jacamo Peterson, author of A Hard Place: A Sergeant's Tale, and Blademaster of Norda.

THE HARBINGER OF DOOM SAGA

The Harbinger of Doom saga centers around one Lord Angle Theta, an enigmatic warrior of unknown origins and mystical power. No mortal man is his match in battle. No sorcery can contain or confound him. No scholar or sage can outwit him. But for all his skills, he is but one of us; a man, a human, who shares our faults, our dreams, and our ambitions. He boldly strides across the land, fearless, peerless, and cloaked in mystery; all his will bent on righting such wrongs as he deems fit.
Until the day the Gateway opened and turned the world on its head. On that fateful day, Korrgonn came and washed away our dreams. And his outre' realms of chaos set their unholy mark upon our world and claimed it for their own.

Only Theta and his companions see the enemies aligning against us. Only they foresee our end coming -- the end of civilization, the end of the world of man. Only they can hope to turn the tide of madness and preserve all that we hold dear.

But no man, not even our greatest hero, can stand against the Lords of Chaos and the dark armies of Nifleheim at their command. Fiends that infiltrate unseen within our ranks, that tear down our temples and our traditions; that devour us from within, unseen, unknown, unheralded, and unopposed until the hour grows far too late.

Through the murk and mist that hangs before our eyes, one man only sees true. One man pierces the veil of magic that blinds us all and marks the world as it truly is, revealing secrets, secrets of Angle Theta, so horrifying as to shatter a man's mind and call into question the very nature of good and evil.
Join us now on our journey back to the days of high adventure.

Book 1: The Gateway (only .99 cents on Kindle)
http://www.amazon.com/GATEWAY-Harbin.../dp/B0017H1LCQ

Book 2: The Fallen Angle
http://www.amazon.com/FALLEN-ANGLE-H.../dp/B0018G55BY

Book 3: Knight Eternal
http://www.amazon.com/Knight-Eternal.../dp/B002TG4NN8

Books 1 & 2 combined: Harbinger of Doom
http://www.amazon.com/HARBINGER-DOOM.../dp/B0017RHXAK

Book 4: Dwellers of the Deep (forthcoming)

Glenn G. Thater
www.glenngthater.com

bazmaz · 01-26-2011, 06:06 PM

Thanks Geoff C - sales improving.

I should have said in my first post - price reflects that I am not trying to make a killing. I run a site on which reviews of instruments get the best traffic. I don't, however have endless funds, and as such, making a few clams on advertising, book etc, will allow me to purchase some gear to review, rate, test, and then offer as competition prizes.

Thanks to those who bought.

Eastlondonboy · 01-26-2011, 06:55 PM

The Messiah of Green Street tells the story of Sahil, born to Bangladeshi immigrants Karim and Anjana in the deprived melting pot of Upton Park, London. This strange-looking prodigal of a boy – who can allegedly speak Arabic and Hebrew from birth - is greeted as a miracle and ‘a child of the world’, but the superstitious adulation of his community slowly ebbs and sours as the realities of life as a disenfranchised and dispossessed second generation immigrant take over. The story of Sahil and his family, of their friends, relatives and neighbours is mordantly satirical, deeply poignant and very funny. As Sahil grows into adulthood and becomes more and more disillusioned with his lot, his reluctant attempts to connect with his roots, buried under the weight of slavery, colonialism and racial hatred, take him in unexpected directions on the way to his own particular truth.

http://http://www.amazon.com/MESSIAH.../dp/B003MVZMC0

Valmore Daniels · 01-27-2011, 09:21 AM

Yay! The description on my Amazon US page for Angel Fire is finally live (the Amazon UK page has been working since Friday).

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004K6MHSI

... now I'm happpy

Saffina Desforge · 01-28-2011, 03:03 AM

5 - 5 STAR REVIEWS in a row!

Until Feb 20th 2011 - Sugar & Spice is discounted. Get it at this price whilst you can!

Recently at #2 in Amazon UK Serial Killer Chart and #46 in Thrillers.

One reader described it as 'unputdownable'

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sugar-Spice/dp/B004AYDK22

http://www.amazon.com/Sugar-Spice/dp/B004AYDK22

Also available for Nook, in PDF, HTML and ebook format from Smashwords.

bazmaz · 01-28-2011, 06:16 PM

wow, feeling a bit humbled - my ukulele book as above made the top 100 in the Music category on both sides of the atlantic on Kindle.

THANK YOU

Smashwords - http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/37988

Amazon- http://www.amazon.com/What-Ukulele-P...5455110&sr=1-8

DreamWriter · 01-29-2011, 05:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bazmaz

wow, feeling a bit humbled - my ukulele book as above made the top 100 in the Music category on both sides of the atlantic on Kindle.

Congratulations! That's wonderful!

bazmaz · 01-29-2011, 05:21 AM

Thank you very much!

DanBarker · 01-29-2011, 10:43 AM

Hi All - here's my shameless plug!
I've recently uploaded my first novel Lethal Advantages to the Kindle Store.

Further, until 13 February 2011 voucher code XX82C will enable you to download Lethal Advantages from Smashwords FREE!

In the meantime, here is a taste of what the book is all about:

I am giving the book away initially in the hope I can get some feedback (ideally in the form of reviews on the Amazon or Smashwords pages) but any feedback will be appreciated. So if you readers out there are feeling like an adventure that takes you from the cut-throat world of political campaign consultancy to the wildlife rich plains of Los Llanos, Venezuela and beyond, then don't hesitate to give Lethal Advantages a try.

If you are on Facebook you can see some pictures of the wildlife of Los Llanos, Venezuela referred to in the novel and leave feedback here.

Regards,
Daniel Barker
Author

YK Greene · 01-29-2011, 08:23 PM

Hi all!

I'm offering a shamelessly short self promotion on my novel The Uncertainty of Death till February 1st! Looking for something to hit that reading sweet tooth over the weekend? This just might be it! Enter the code: WK82B for a free copy!

The Uncertainty of Death is also available on the Kindle through Amazon!

Quote:

Death

The scariest unknown in any one person’s entire lifetime. For centuries people have personified and anticipated the horror and the majesty of this unavoidable fate, even going so far as to invent legends of how to avoid it.

No one expects a harried, overworked and socially awkward business woman who loves her employees like the family she’ll never have. This Death has never been very good at games of skill or chance and is keenly self-conscious, always going the extra mile to make others comfortable around her.

Two mortals, Leo Kaylor and Jules Harper are about to meet a very different Death than they’ve ever dreamed of, and embark on a chaotic journey that will test the very meaning of friendship.

GeoffC · 01-30-2011, 04:28 AM

Dan

Welcome to Mobileread ....

You too YK - though I saw your other post ....

....

DanBarker · 01-30-2011, 07:03 AM

Hi Geoff!
Thankyou for the warm reception, despite my arriving on the scene as a pimp!
This forum was a great help in me getting on top of formatting issues, so hopefully in time I may be able to contribute more!
DB

Manley Peterson · 01-30-2011, 07:20 PM

Bloated Goat is on the Indie eBook Hall of Fame, in the Young Adult category.

You can also read a 33% excerpt of Bloated Goat at Manley's Bookshelf to learn more about why you need to buy this book.

01-26-2011, 06:55 PM	#1070
Eastlondonboy Banned Posts: 56 Karma: 160 Join Date: May 2010 Location: London, UK Device: kindle	THE MESSIAH OF GREEN STREET The Messiah of Green Street tells the story of Sahil, born to Bangladeshi immigrants Karim and Anjana in the deprived melting pot of Upton Park, London. This strange-looking prodigal of a boy – who can allegedly speak Arabic and Hebrew from birth - is greeted as a miracle and ‘a child of the world’, but the superstitious adulation of his community slowly ebbs and sours as the realities of life as a disenfranchised and dispossessed second generation immigrant take over. The story of Sahil and his family, of their friends, relatives and neighbours is mordantly satirical, deeply poignant and very funny. As Sahil grows into adulthood and becomes more and more disillusioned with his lot, his reluctant attempts to connect with his roots, buried under the weight of slavery, colonialism and racial hatred, take him in unexpected directions on the way to his own particular truth. http://http://www.amazon.com/MESSIAH.../dp/B003MVZMC0

01-28-2011, 03:03 AM	#1072
Saffina Desforge Saffina Posts: 28 Karma: 30000 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: England Device: kindle	Sugar & Spice by Saffina Desforges reduced to £071/$0.99c 5 - 5 STAR REVIEWS in a row! Until Feb 20th 2011 - Sugar & Spice is discounted. Get it at this price whilst you can! Recently at #2 in Amazon UK Serial Killer Chart and #46 in Thrillers. One reader described it as 'unputdownable' http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sugar-Spice/dp/B004AYDK22 http://www.amazon.com/Sugar-Spice/dp/B004AYDK22 Also available for Nook, in PDF, HTML and ebook format from Smashwords.

01-29-2011, 10:43 AM	#1076
DanBarker Daniel Barker Posts: 3 Karma: 10000 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Australia Device: Kindle	Lethal Advantages Giveaway - Daniel Barker Hi All - here's my shameless plug! I've recently uploaded my first novel Lethal Advantages to the Kindle Store. Further, until 13 February 2011 voucher code XX82C will enable you to download Lethal Advantages from Smashwords FREE! In the meantime, here is a taste of what the book is all about: I am giving the book away initially in the hope I can get some feedback (ideally in the form of reviews on the Amazon or Smashwords pages) but any feedback will be appreciated. So if you readers out there are feeling like an adventure that takes you from the cut-throat world of political campaign consultancy to the wildlife rich plains of Los Llanos, Venezuela and beyond, then don't hesitate to give Lethal Advantages a try. If you are on Facebook you can see some pictures of the wildlife of Los Llanos, Venezuela referred to in the novel and leave feedback here. Regards, Daniel Barker Author Last edited by DanBarker; 01-31-2011 at 11:20 PM. Reason: Tidy up

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01-26-2011, 10:12 AM	#1066
williemeikle Are the stars right yet? Posts: 209 Karma: 250270 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Newfoundland Device: none	I love it when a reader is in tune with what I'm trying to do... a stellar review of my Viking vs Yeti novel "Berserker" from Jim McLeod. http://thegingernutcase.blogspot.com...am-meikle.html

01-26-2011, 12:46 PM	#1067
Peter Salisbury Enthusiast Posts: 36 Karma: 50000 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: UK Device: Kindle graphite	The First Completely Electronic Robot and Science Fiction Limerick Book is mere hours away from entering its fifth, yes fifth week free on Amazon UK. If that's not shameless, I don't know what is. Sorry, though, it's not free at Amazon US. However, it is always free wherever you are at smashwords.com. I also have a new SF short story free at smashwords: Phades ~ Lost Souls: a story about what happens to the people who are dragged into the vortex surrounding a quantum rift and the 'phantoms' that escape from it. This is a free short (1600 word) version of a longer short story (10,000 word) soon to be released. One of the few short stories only a couple of hundred words longer than a limerick is Ms Fixit, also still free at smashwords. That's the one about the mischievous repair lady. OK, that's the shameless bit over, now I have something special to share about one of my novels. A contented reader PM'd me this morning about my first novel 'Passengers to Sentience', saying: "I finished Passengers to Sentience last night and very much enjoyed it. I liked the way you had developed and explored the science around cloning and found the book psychologically convincing. Although there was a lot of science in your science-fiction, even as an arts graduate I found it engaging and never too esoteric and the strong storyline kept me interested all the way through. I think one of your reviewers called it an intelligent read, and this is a quality I look for and do not always find in books." Sigh! Aren't readers who say things like this just the best!

01-26-2011, 03:09 PM	#1068
GlennGThater Connoisseur Posts: 81 Karma: 300000 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: New York Device: kindle	Below is some info on my epic fantasy series, Harbinger of Doom. BTW - Book 1, The Gateway, won 3rd Best Fantasy Novel of 2009 in the Preditors & Editors Readers Poll and is on sale for .99 cents at Amazon.com. All books in the series are available in paperback and ebook versions at such retailers as Barnes and Noble, the Sony ebook store, the Apple Itunes store, Kobobooks.Com, and Smashwords.Com Summary of Reader Reviews: “...as good as any fantasy tale you will read, it honors the tradition, and adds to our lore a story so good, so well told, I hope it will be remembered forever.” --- Rai Aren, co-author of Secret of the Sands “...fast paced and exciting with characters real enough to leap out of the pages...leaves the reader craving more.” --- Franz McLaren, author of Demon Drift and A Night of Dark Delicacies “...Non-stop action that is written so well you can't stop reading it!” -- G.A. Endless, author of Issla: A Vampire Living in the 21st Century “...The author paints each scene and battle so clearly that I felt I was in the middle of the action.” --- Mike Monahan, author of Barracuda. “...The Gateway delivers straight up heroic fantasy with unapologetic hack and slash action.” -- Tracy Falbe, author of The Rys Chronicles “...fast-paced, action-packed fantasy.” --- Debra Purdy Kong, author of Taxed to Death and Fatal Encryption “...An adventure into magic and fantasy that pulls you in and does not let go...left me wanting more.” --- R.M. Putnam, author of Destiny’s Warriors “...the action never stops.” --- Susan McLeod, author of Soul and Shadow Thater tells this tale “...in a voice as pretentious as Tolkein’s.” -- Dennis Batchelder, author of Soul Identity and Soul Intent. “...an excellent foray into dark story adventure.” -- Jacamo Peterson, author of A Hard Place: A Sergeant's Tale, and Blademaster of Norda. THE HARBINGER OF DOOM SAGA The Harbinger of Doom saga centers around one Lord Angle Theta, an enigmatic warrior of unknown origins and mystical power. No mortal man is his match in battle. No sorcery can contain or confound him. No scholar or sage can outwit him. But for all his skills, he is but one of us; a man, a human, who shares our faults, our dreams, and our ambitions. He boldly strides across the land, fearless, peerless, and cloaked in mystery; all his will bent on righting such wrongs as he deems fit. Until the day the Gateway opened and turned the world on its head. On that fateful day, Korrgonn came and washed away our dreams. And his outre' realms of chaos set their unholy mark upon our world and claimed it for their own. Only Theta and his companions see the enemies aligning against us. Only they foresee our end coming -- the end of civilization, the end of the world of man. Only they can hope to turn the tide of madness and preserve all that we hold dear. But no man, not even our greatest hero, can stand against the Lords of Chaos and the dark armies of Nifleheim at their command. Fiends that infiltrate unseen within our ranks, that tear down our temples and our traditions; that devour us from within, unseen, unknown, unheralded, and unopposed until the hour grows far too late. Through the murk and mist that hangs before our eyes, one man only sees true. One man pierces the veil of magic that blinds us all and marks the world as it truly is, revealing secrets, secrets of Angle Theta, so horrifying as to shatter a man's mind and call into question the very nature of good and evil. Join us now on our journey back to the days of high adventure. Book 1: The Gateway (only .99 cents on Kindle) http://www.amazon.com/GATEWAY-Harbin.../dp/B0017H1LCQ Book 2: The Fallen Angle http://www.amazon.com/FALLEN-ANGLE-H.../dp/B0018G55BY Book 3: Knight Eternal http://www.amazon.com/Knight-Eternal.../dp/B002TG4NN8 Books 1 & 2 combined: Harbinger of Doom http://www.amazon.com/HARBINGER-DOOM.../dp/B0017RHXAK Book 4: Dwellers of the Deep (forthcoming) Glenn G. Thater www.glenngthater.com

01-26-2011, 06:06 PM	#1069
bazmaz Uke strummer Posts: 140 Karma: 501122 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: kindle	Thanks Geoff C - sales improving. I should have said in my first post - price reflects that I am not trying to make a killing. I run a site on which reviews of instruments get the best traffic. I don't, however have endless funds, and as such, making a few clams on advertising, book etc, will allow me to purchase some gear to review, rate, test, and then offer as competition prizes. Thanks to those who bought.

01-27-2011, 09:21 AM	#1071
Valmore Daniels Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,592 Karma: 2822668 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: Kindle	Yay! The description on my Amazon US page for Angel Fire is finally live (the Amazon UK page has been working since Friday). http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004K6MHSI ... now I'm happpy

01-28-2011, 06:16 PM	#1073
bazmaz Uke strummer Posts: 140 Karma: 501122 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: kindle	wow, feeling a bit humbled - my ukulele book as above made the top 100 in the Music category on both sides of the atlantic on Kindle. THANK YOU Smashwords - http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/37988 Amazon- http://www.amazon.com/What-Ukulele-P...5455110&sr=1-8

01-29-2011, 05:21 AM	#1075
bazmaz Uke strummer Posts: 140 Karma: 501122 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: kindle	Thank you very much!

01-30-2011, 04:28 AM	#1078
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	Dan Welcome to Mobileread .... You too YK - though I saw your other post .... ....

01-30-2011, 07:03 AM	#1079
DanBarker Daniel Barker Posts: 3 Karma: 10000 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Australia Device: Kindle	Hi Geoff! Thankyou for the warm reception, despite my arriving on the scene as a pimp! This forum was a great help in me getting on top of formatting issues, so hopefully in time I may be able to contribute more! DB

01-30-2011, 07:20 PM	#1080
Manley Peterson Author of Bloated Goat Posts: 105 Karma: 100000 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: Kindle	Bloated Goat is on the Indie eBook Hall of Fame, in the Young Adult category. You can also read a 33% excerpt of Bloated Goat at Manley's Bookshelf to learn more about why you need to buy this book.