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

[Steve Anderson]

I'm celebrating my first sale in the UK Kindle store of my novel The Losing Role (hurrah!) by going fully shameless. All my novels are currently discounted under three bucks or close to two quid:

The Losing Role
Thriller, espionage, historical fiction
US Kindle | UK Kindle | Smashwords

Besserwisser: A Novel
Satire, humor, mystery
US Kindle | UK Kindle | Smashwords

False Refuge
Crime noir, adventure, thriller
US Kindle | UK Kindle | Smashwords

I appreciate it and hope you'll give them a look.

Thanks and happy reading,
Steve

[avantman42]

Originally Posted by Steve Anderson

I'm celebrating my first sale in the UK Kindle store of my novel The Losing Role (hurrah!) by going fully shameless.

Congrats! I have a soft spot for The Losing Role, as it was the first e-book I bought (on Smashwords, about 3 weeks ago) and I suspect it went some way to convincing me to buy an e-reader (I read it using the Smashwords online reader).

[Steve Anderson]

Originally Posted by avantman42

Congrats! I have a soft spot for The Losing Role, as it was the first e-book I bought (on Smashwords, about 3 weeks ago) and I suspect it went some way to convincing me to buy an e-reader (I read it using the Smashwords online reader).

Hey thanks, Russ. That's great to hear -- you just made this author's day, in fact.

I appreciate your giving it a read and I'm glad I could hook you on e-reading

Steve

[avantman42]

Originally Posted by Steve Anderson

Hey thanks, Russ. That's great to hear -- you just made this author's day, in fact.

That's very cool. I still find it slightly odd that I'm writing a forum post in reply to an author whose book I enjoyed. I'm not used to this sort of direct contact.

Originally Posted by Steve Anderson

I appreciate your giving it a read and I'm glad I could hook you on e-reading

I read a review of it somewhere, and it sounded interesting, so I started reading the free bit on Smashwords, by the time I was half way through the free bit I'd paid for it.

For what it's worth, I think the chance to start reading it for free is really useful - I'm more likely to give a book a chance if I can start reading it for free, and if I like it there's no way I'm not going to pay to read the full thing.

[Steve Anderson]

Originally Posted by avantman42

That's very cool. I still find it slightly odd that I'm writing a forum post in reply to an author whose book I enjoyed. I'm not used to this sort of direct contact.


I read a review of it somewhere, and it sounded interesting, so I started reading the free bit on Smashwords, by the time I was half way through the free bit I'd paid for it.

For what it's worth, I think the chance to start reading it for free is really useful - I'm more likely to give a book a chance if I can start reading it for free, and if I like it there's no way I'm not going to pay to read the full thing.

I understand what you mean. Such direct contact is so different than the fiction writing, which involves locking yourself away with no contact to be had! But I'm getting used to it, and hearing from readers like you definitely makes it worthwhile.

Yeah, I'm finding one of the best and most revolutionary things about e-reading is having the ability to read a sample. Plus I can do it in my own home.

Steve

[Excuse Me, Miss]

Originally Posted by Valmore Daniels

I'd like to give a shout out to Phillip Thomas Duck and his great blog "Excuse Me, Miss" (and who featured a short excerpt of Forbidden The Stars this week).

http://excusememissptd.blogspot.com/...aniels_16.html

Thanks Valmore! I appreciate you participating in my Featured Authors Favorite Page venture. Always glad to have you.

[Dr. Drib]

Hi, everyone:

I’m a new author, winner of the “Boo-Boo Award For Most Inane Novel Ever Written By A Guy." [That must be a mistake on my plague, because I think they mean "insane," but in a good way]. as well as the “Carpel Tunnel Syndrome Award For Best And Longest Novel Written By A Male-Type Contestant.” (Competition was fierce, let me tell you. About 1,000 Indy righters entered. One guy had to be disqualified, because he was actually a GIRL!)

Anyway, right now I’m working on a nostril where an asteroid crashes into the Earth – I haven’t seen this one done yet, so I’m ril excited abouut it – and everyone except won man and only this woman survive. It’s takes places in the furtherest rashes of the cosmos, and it’s up too one lone renegade to explin how this happiness to the Earth.

Oh, before I forgit, I need volunteers to proofread my septic novel. When yuou’ve written as much as I have, it’s better to git someone else to do the rilly drudge work, and let the ril work alone to the autor.

Well, I gotta go now, I ‘ve got 50 pages to write before lunch, a rilly tough love seen between the guy and the girl.

I'm 14 years old. Lets talke!

HEY! TELL US ABOUT your NOVEL!




Don
(Moderator)

[BexBits]

Originally Posted by kcmay

The Kinshield Legacy made it to its first ever top 100 list on Amazon today! Currently #92 in Kindle Store > Kindle Books > Fiction > World Literature > Mythology

Congratulations!

[joycedb]

For your consideration: Serendipity House

Sylvie was a pleaser. She did as her mother pleased, and she did as her fiancé pleased. Then she did as she pleased. Raised by a domineering mother, Sylvie doesn’t like the submissive woman she’s become. Determined to take back her life, she heads to the hills instead of to the altar on her wedding day. Coming across a quaint, country inn with an intriguing name, she impulsively checks into Serendipity House. Peopled with an odd assortment of characters, the inn has clearly seen better days. Even the regulars have a bit of wear on them.

Thus, when attractive Alex arrives and is strangely comfortable vacationing among the geriatric set, Sylvie is suspicious and does her best to ignore him. But Alex will not be ignored, pushing her buttons until she admits, if only to herself that she’s falling in love with him. Not until she’s hired to manage the inn does she learn he’s not the distinguished gentleman he purports to be, but a streetwise PI hired by her ex to find her. Adding insult to injury, he’s bought the inn and asks for her help in restoring it to its former glory.

Forced to work together, both learn about relationships, expectations, and acceptance—among family members as well as strangers who become like family.

Thanks for reading , and I hope you’ll visit Serendipity House.

Joyce

[GeoffC]

Shameless Dr Drib !


How could you ....

[bthrowsnaill]

This thread is a discordian plot (device). Please refrain from reading it. Also, please refrain from writing it - over and over again. That would probably mean that you are insane. SAN -100. Cthulhu loves you. That is all.

This thread is a discordian plot (device). Please refrain from reading it. Also, please refrain from writing it - over and over again. That would probably mean that you are insane. SAN -100. Cthulhu loves you. That is all.

This thread is a discordian plot (device). Please refrain from reading it. Also, please refrain from writing it - over and over again. That would probably mean that you are insane. SAN -100. Cthulhu loves you. That is all.

[William Campbell]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

I’m a new author, winner of the “Boo-Boo Award For Most Inane Novel Ever Written By A Guy."

Wow, thats great, Dr Drib. I'd like to complement you on your achiefment. I would of sent an old story in, about a hoard of villains that invade a dessert aisle and the hero must diffuse a bomb to advert eminent destruction. But so many people take my sorted past for granite. Can't figure why.

(GRIN)

p.s. Nevermind. It's a mute point anyway.

[William Campbell]

On a serious note...

Read an intelligent and enlightening tale, which Clayton Bye of the Deepening World of Fiction called "a professionally written and solidly edited book that I feel is well worth the price and time you’ll spend on it."

Dead Forever 1: Awakening

In a conformist society that reincarnates, insurgents are eliminated by erasing the memory of past lives. Robbed of his identity and purpose, a reluctant hero is dumped into a transient existence, and he regards himself as insignificant. But he is of great interest to agents in black who come to collect him. His decision to flee begins a journey of rediscovery, and when he's rescued by an oddball crew claiming to be fellow rebels, the boundaries of reality are tested, and who to trust is anyone's guess. Eager to arouse his memory, a flirtatious member of the rebel team shows him the life he once enjoyed, and more, as he returns to a strange world where bodies are manufactured and childhood is obsolete. If only he could be a child again. First he'll have to remember how to reincarnate.

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Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0034G6628
Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/8981

[altworld]

Hello,
Been a while since I last updated the news here about The Tether, my dark urban fantasy novel, and I have a bunch of news about my book... So hang on tight and here we go...

1. Book Signing - Saturday September 25th 12- 4pm at Chuck's Comics located at 530 Eastern Blvd, Essex MD 21221 I will be hosting a book signing for The Tether, come and join me to talk about the writing process, what is coming next and of course to pick up your signed copy of The Tether.

2. New Website - Alt-world my home on the internet has been updated with a whole new look. Now more interactive with daily blogs, pictures, tweets, Tri-weekly webcomic and great door way into exploring the universe that The Tether inhabits. Check it out at http://www.alt-world.com

3. Screenplay Development - The Tether is now being developed into a screenplay by AEN Entertainment, look out for more news on this as it is developed. Could the silver screen be in this novels (and Authors) future?

4. Graphic Novel - Rumors abound that The Tether universe will start having a graphic supplement exploring the universe and the novels side characters further. Watch out for new images, glimpses at work in progress and news about this as it happens... And it is going to happen.

5. Exclusive Extract - Work continues on part two of The Tether I'm now rolling through the second draft and have posted an exclusive extract the first 1000 words from the first chapter of The Tether Part Two on my http://www.alt-world.com blog. More Extracts will follow.

6. Apple iBookstore - The Tether is available in eBook format for the Kindle at http://www.amazon.com/The-Tether-ebook/dp/B003B669N2, and through Smashwords for other eBook Reading devices athttp://www.smashwords.com/books/view/20156. I',m happy to announce that The Tether is also available in the Apple iBookstore for the iPad and iPhone.

7. Kindle Joy - Don't forget The Tether, a dark urban fantasy set on the streets of Baltimore is also available for your Kindle devices. Come and join the adventure today at http://www.amazon.com/The-Tether-ebook/dp/B003B669N2

Thank you for listening
Domo Arigato,
Nick Davis

[Simon Wood]

Amazon has cut the price of my prison-set supernatural thriller THE SCRUBS to 99cents.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Scrubs-ebook/dp/B003DQNXTS

Enjoy.