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

[plumboz]

The response to yesterday's offer was beyond anything I could have imagined.

So thank you to everyone here who added Boomerang to your library.* I hope you enjoy it. And of course I would love to hear what you think, either through messages here or reviews. Reviews are great ways to say thanks back for free books, and of course passing the word is absolutely the best.

Coupon MN64D is still good for half-price at Smashwords.




*And a very special thanks to those who chose to invest a buck or two whether at Smashwords or Amazon. Yesterday also saw a terrific spike in paid sales. I tried very hard to make sure Boomerang is a book worth paying for and I hope you feel that you invested wisely.

[Scott Nicholson]

I'd like to interrupt this commercial to deliver an important announcement--
CJ West's THE END OF MARKING TIME is an engaging, thought-provoking new-future crime thriller. What happens when you awake from a coma to find you pay your debt to society a different way?


http://www.amazon.com/End-Marking-Ti.../dp/B003P9XAXW


Scott Nicholson
Drummer Boy
Skull Ring

[SneakySnake]

Originally Posted by Scott Nicholson

I'd like to interrupt this commercial to deliver an important announcement--
CJ West's THE END OF MARKING TIME is an engaging, thought-provoking new-future crime thriller. What happens when you awake from a coma to find you pay your debt to society a different way?


http://www.amazon.com/End-Marking-Ti.../dp/B003P9XAXW


Scott Nicholson
Drummer Boy
Skull Ring

Only on Kindle? and Amazon who puts an extra $2 fee on top for Ozzies.

[plumboz]

It Was Too Much Fun Not To Do It Again

So here we go with one more coupon to get Boomerang for free at Smashwords.

Good through tomorrow, June 11, 2010.

LK38H is the code.

Thanks!
Alan
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[jeffreymoss]

Check out my new book at Smashwords.com! For the month of June, if you buy my book, I will send to you a signed print of the book cover on high quality 8 1/2 x 11 paper -- for free! Just purchase my book, send me a message that you have bought it and would like the print, and be sure to include the address where you would like it mailed it to.



"What is to be done once the head of an empire falls?"

Introducing first part of an epic fantasy trilogy:
Pieces of the Empire: An Ending and a Beginning
by Jeffrey Lawrence Moss

Available Now At:

Smashwords.com

Available Soon At:

Amazon Bookstore (tbd)
Apple iBookstore (June 18th)
Barnes and Noble (August 6th)
Kobo Bookstore (June 25th)
Sony Bookstore (June 25th)

[William Campbell]

Now available in the Kindle Store:

DEAD FOREVER: APOTHEOSIS
by William Campbell

A god? No thanks, too much responsibility.

Sequel to Awakening, the adventure continues as our hero travels to the Restricted Zone, aided by a mysterious provider of instructions. But mistakes mount and the mission falls apart. Plunged into an alien world at war, the hero is caught between battling natives who either worship him as a god, or another heretic scheduled to burn alive.

The hero struggles to bring peace among chaos but his nemesis has arrived, and he likes playing god, poised to launch unthinkable wrath that fulfills a world-ending prophecy. The natives are confident their savior will prevail.

Trouble brews back home--the rebels are under siege, two planets ruined, and the body supply is depleted. More of all the hero is expected to fix, while he only longs to be a child again, the one dream denied him for lifetimes. He hatches a daring plot to outsmart the enemy but in doing so risks his own life--in the last body to enjoy as a free soul. A single choice could spell his end, for real this time. Dead forever.

“Only the gods be so great as to wield the power of destruction yet escape its fate. The mortal be bound by destiny he cannot escape, however heroic.”

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003R4ZOD4
Also available at Smashwords:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/16376

Start the adventure with book 1 of the Dead Forever series:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0034G6628
Also available at Smashwords:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/8981

[Groovy Writer]

Since my other threads are being combined, and I'm obviously a slobbering puppy for self-promo....

So I've been writing for a long freakin' time. First short story at age 16 about a guy who gets sucked into a video game, a la Tron. Then I read a note from a submissions editor: "Please do not submit amateur work, especially story ideas that are overused: i.e. Guy gets sucked into video game."

After that I found journalism to be friendlier, and spent ten years writing for every publication that would take my work. But my dream was to emulate my favorite authors and write stories that would really spark the imagination and chill the spine. I just needed on original premise. So I graduated from college, found no work in newspaper, then one day read a NY Times article about an archaeological dig at Mt. Nemrut, Turkey. By the end I was literally hearing a voice in my head - the main character - making a declaration of intent. That was 1999.

Ten years later I published a 500+ page, two-book novel, and found no rest until it was finished. At first I was like Jonah (made famous by a whale), resisting the incredible task put before me. I mean, this story wanted to be told and hounded my ass until I got serious. Problem was, I was a journalist. I told stories. I knew excellent fiction when I read it, but creating it is such a subtle process, and the difference between mediocre and really good is just a few degrees apart.

So now I'm promoting Something Coming, a New Age Thriller. Every chapter (70 in all) has been drafted at least 20 times. Five versions have gone to the printer, until finally satisfied that my work rivals other professionals with publishing companies behind them. It has been read by proofreaders, a writing coach, friends, relatives, and other writers. What's really killing me so far is everyone seems to like if not love it! Sure, they found some typos and such, and the writing coach said that I needed to make the ending more hopeful. I shaved four chapters entirely and combined some others, reducing the story from over 210,000 words down to about 180,000 total. But basically they said I had a best-seller on my hands. Which actually makes me feel kinda shitty because now I have a greater responsibility to sell it. If the reactions were more like "yeah, it's pretty good," I'd say to myself, well, I wrote it and now I can move on. But no, I actually had to create something completely original and well-written. Darn me....

If I've made you interested, even if you're the pickiest reader, I offer the first thriller for free at Scribd. Can be downloaded for Kindle or any e-reader plus most mobile devices. You tell me: Am I kidding myself, believing hype, or have a written a potential hit? Thank you!

[lene1949]

If I've made you interested, even if you're the pickiest reader, I offer the first thriller for free at Scribd. Can be downloaded for Kindle or any e-reader plus most mobile devices. You tell me: Am I kidding myself, believing hype, or have a written a potential hit? Thank you!

This sounds very interesting... Is it only available in PDF and txt at Scribd?

[Ricky Sides]

Hi there,

I'd like to thank you all. Last month I had the best sales month I've ever enjoyed, and I think a lot of those sales came from MobileRead forum members.

Free book:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/15872

Sincerely,
Ricky Sides

[DonnaFaz]

I'm sure I've been shameless here before , but it's been a while so I thought it was time to pull out my shameless shirt and tug it on again...you know the one...it has "Buy My Book!" emblazoned across the front.

It's summer in the US and those of you who are hitting the beach or trekking cool mountain trails with your e-readers should check out The Merry-Go-Round! Women's fiction at its finest, or at least at its most adequate. I'll let you decide. <g> I've had great feedback from both women and men, so don't let the 'women's fiction' label fool you.

At Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/9466

At Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002ZNJL78

Have a great day!
~Donna~

[pdurrant]

It's about time I mentioned my lovely illustated version of Kim by Rudyard Kipling.

The text is better than any other version out there. The illustrations are by Kipling's father — who used to be curator at the Lahore museum that features in the first chapter, so they are excellent illustrations of India contemporary to the story.

This book is about the adventures of Kim, an orphan in India in the 1880s, as he travels with a Lama from Tibet, in search of a sacred river for the Lama, and a red bull on a green field for Kim.

You can read it for free from the Mobileread library.

The Mobileread library version contains text, illustrations, and footnotes from the original editions.

Or you can buy it for just $0.99 (+VAT if applicable) from the Kindle store. The Kindle store contains the same great text, illustrations and footnotes, but is enhanced by many more (doubly-hyperlinked) footnotes explaining unusual or foreign words in the text.

Currently #10 best selling book by Kipling on Amazon!

[Steve Anderson]

Hi all,

I'm not sure why or how long it will last, but I wanted to let you know Amazon just discounted my novels False Refuge and Besserwisser: A Novel by 20% -- they're currently only $1.59. What a deal!

Happy reading,
Steve

[ASparrow]

I know this is supposed to be a thread devoted to shamelessness, but for the next 24 hours I am shamefully offering a sneak preview (download the whole novel for free) of Lethe, my upcoming novel. Shameful, because I am ashamed to admit that the last 50 pages have not been thoroughly copy-edited. So I hope you all will help me wallow in shame by rubbing my nose in my errors. I will offer a 100% money-back guarantee for any errors flagged, which, because this novel is free, will shamefully amount to zero reimbursement.

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/15436

I would attach a trailer link as well, but I'm too ashamed.

[joycedb]

Everyone yearns to find the place where he or she belongs. Sylvie and Alex find that place at Serendipity House. Despite mysterious break-ins, family problems, and the loss of loved ones, each finds friends they treasure, a way of life that nurtures them, and a special someone who holds the same things dear.

To read the first two chapters of my full-length, women’s fiction novel, please visit my website, joycedebacco.com. Thanks for reading, and I hope you’ll visit Serendipity House.

Joyce

[EllenFisher]

I'm pleased to say that my time travel/sci fi romance Never Love a Stranger is at #258 in the Kindle store-- the best ranking any of my books has attained. I'll be raising the price at the end of the month, but right now Stranger is still priced at 99 cents.

Many thanks to all my readers!