Free ebook: Honolulu Hottie

Lancer Kind · 10-17-2010, 11:02 AM

I'll email you the free ebook (.mobi and .prc files) for subscribing to my blog. Don't worry, I won't spam you or sell your email address. Twice a month I post to the blog about science fiction and how it relates to politics and social commentary. To subscribe, visit my blog at the following link ( http://www.lancerkind.com/2010/09/27...berpunk-story/ ) and enter your email address on the upper right corner of the web page, and I'll email you a copy of Honolulu Hottie.

Excerpt:
Lancer Kind splices cyberpunk and Hawaiian culture into a novelette length tale (roughly 70 paperback pages) that garnered Honorable Mention in the Writers of the Future contest. In this global warmed future, the rising ocean level has put parts of Honolulu underwater and forced the erection of seawalls.
Nafi has given up professional surfing for a dull path to home ownership—working security at a pineapple research facility. Life gets challenging in a hurry when he's demerited for inspecting a mysterious limousine. The next day, a woman named Lina throws herself at him, and she's trouble from her dangerous curves and tongue ring to her degree in marketing. After giving her an after-hours tour of his workplace, she leaves him in the afterglow of a lap dance to smuggle samples of a pineapple out of the facility.
Nafi stops her, and instead of her starting with "I'm sorry," she accuses him and the arriving security team of abetting a company wide conspiracy to engineer a virus to devastate the pineapple crop. With his credibility ruined, Nafi's locked up with his hottie to wait for the Honolulu police. In the next few hours, video evidence is destroyed, a security guard is murdered, and an epidemiologist who's an international expert on banana viruses turns up. Nafi tries to piece together what's happening without falling for this attractive woman who he suspects is an ecoterrorist. Before the police arrive, Nafi and Lina flee a coverup that requires them dead. And not only is the pineapple crop in jeopardy, but the entire island is in the path of destruction.

The Kindle book is available for $3: http://www.amazon.com/Honolulu-Hotti.../dp/B0044KM1VI

Here's a sample of the author's blog about Honolulu Hottie:
I’m going to talk about something you can get for free, so be sure to read to the end. Or skip to the section marked FREE. :-)

In 1989 I read my first cyberpunk novel, William Gibson’s Mona Lisa Overdrive. That novel got me reading science fiction again. Until then, I’d been on a Fantasy bender for the six years, and yes, you can get drunk on fantasy. My apologies to my brother and sister, for making them dress like hobbits and forcing them to call me The Great One. They partied like ewoks on Endor when I moved out for college.

Cyberpunk is considered an old genre (the cool kids are doing steampunk) but it appeals to the mundane science fiction reader in me. It’s mundane because Cyberpunk has similarities to reality, such as the absence of spaceships flitting from star to star at speeds faster than light (at least OUR spaceships). Cyberpunk stories are near future and filled with high-tech lowlifes. It’s a good genre for tales of “warning” because it’s mundane enough to see how our day-to-day life contributes to the tale’s vision.

What’s Hawaiian cyberpunk? Sunglasses and surfboards with datajacks? (Might as well do something with that leash around surfer’s leg.) Honolulu Hottie is my take on it. It’s a novelette which is like a novel but a third of the size because I only kept the good parts. The story’s about Nafi, a world champion surfer who got a regular job but get’s seduced by a political activist. She gets him in trouble, he loses his job, and they’re on the run from a corporate coverup that requires them dead. Surfboards, datajacks, crime, and poi. You know, Hawaiian cyberpunk.

(Visit the following url to read more: http://www.lancerkind.com/2010/09/27...berpunk-story/ )

desertgrandma · 10-17-2010, 11:12 AM

Welcome to MobileRead, Lancer Kind

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Lancer Kind · 10-18-2010, 02:17 AM

You don't even have to buy one because if you already have the correct hardware, you can get the reader software for free. I cover some of the features and quirks of Kindle and Calibre in the review linked beneath my signature.

==>Lancer---
http://www.lancerkind.com/2010/10/17...marter-faster/

jaxx6166 · 10-18-2010, 05:53 PM

::facepalm::

Another lost soul. Dude, lots of people don't have kindles, don't want kindles, don't want anything to do with Kindle. To sell your baby to half the population is essentially shooting yourself in the foot.

And if you plan on sticking around here a little bit longer, know that we're pretty wary of emailing anyone for anything listed "free" regardless of whether you promise to not spam us or give us the one ring.

Shame, I really want to like you too. And your honorable mention of WotF will give you plenty of street juice as far as the big six are concerned. I'm going to beat WW to the punch here and suggest you get a smashwords account asap.

Regardless of my having every major e-reader hardware, I refuse to buy anything on Kindle that's exclusive to Kindle.

Your blog reads well, you've got some juice, and the book sounds pretty sweet. But maybe consider revising your marketing strategy. What works in the kindle boards on amazon doesn't work here.

Until I can find you on SW, you won't be getting a sale from me. And I'm sure there's a couple hundred of people here that would feel the same as me. Sorry bud.

Oh and funny story, before I clicked your site or this thread, I thought your book was an erotica story. Good luck man

crich70 · 10-20-2010, 03:27 PM

I wonder what is going on. I signed up (on the 17th) and have yet to receive the ebook in question. I even wrote him a PM about it and haven't heard back yet.

Moe The Cat · 10-20-2010, 04:03 PM

Same here, crich70. I subscribed to his blog, got an email notification that I subscribed within seconds, but never received the ebook.

Lancer Kind · 10-23-2010, 06:35 AM

Sorry about the delay. I'll go down to the IT center and beat the IT people. ;-) Sending out free ebooks isn't yet automated so that means every few weeks, I check the DB for new subscribers and then send them free ebooks.

The good news is that now you're a subscriber, you'll get the next ebook I release late this year (Caveman Funk) without sweating any of this.

Thanks for your interest! Keep the faith!

Moe The Cat · 10-23-2010, 02:05 PM

Thank you, Lancer Kind! I received Honolulu Hottie via email. I'm looking forward to reading it and the forthcoming Caveman Funk.

HaoleKai · 12-15-2010, 07:03 PM

Surfboards, datajacks, crime, and poy.

You lost me at poy.

I don't read fiction anyway, but this tells me you shouldn't be writing about Hawai'i.

edbro · 12-15-2010, 07:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HaoleKai

Surfboards, datajacks, crime, and poy.

You lost me at poy.

I don't read fiction anyway, but this tells me you shouldn't be writing about Hawai'i.

It is the foodstuff made from tarot card roots.

HaoleKai · 12-15-2010, 09:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by edbro

It is the foodstuff made from tarot card roots.

So do we get poke from burying pokeman cards?

10-17-2010, 11:02 AM	#1
Lancer Kind Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: iPhone	Free ebook: Honolulu Hottie I'll email you the free ebook (.mobi and .prc files) for subscribing to my blog. Don't worry, I won't spam you or sell your email address. Twice a month I post to the blog about science fiction and how it relates to politics and social commentary. To subscribe, visit my blog at the following link ( http://www.lancerkind.com/2010/09/27...berpunk-story/ ) and enter your email address on the upper right corner of the web page, and I'll email you a copy of Honolulu Hottie. Excerpt: Lancer Kind splices cyberpunk and Hawaiian culture into a novelette length tale (roughly 70 paperback pages) that garnered Honorable Mention in the Writers of the Future contest. In this global warmed future, the rising ocean level has put parts of Honolulu underwater and forced the erection of seawalls. Nafi has given up professional surfing for a dull path to home ownership—working security at a pineapple research facility. Life gets challenging in a hurry when he's demerited for inspecting a mysterious limousine. The next day, a woman named Lina throws herself at him, and she's trouble from her dangerous curves and tongue ring to her degree in marketing. After giving her an after-hours tour of his workplace, she leaves him in the afterglow of a lap dance to smuggle samples of a pineapple out of the facility. Nafi stops her, and instead of her starting with "I'm sorry," she accuses him and the arriving security team of abetting a company wide conspiracy to engineer a virus to devastate the pineapple crop. With his credibility ruined, Nafi's locked up with his hottie to wait for the Honolulu police. In the next few hours, video evidence is destroyed, a security guard is murdered, and an epidemiologist who's an international expert on banana viruses turns up. Nafi tries to piece together what's happening without falling for this attractive woman who he suspects is an ecoterrorist. Before the police arrive, Nafi and Lina flee a coverup that requires them dead. And not only is the pineapple crop in jeopardy, but the entire island is in the path of destruction. The Kindle book is available for $3: http://www.amazon.com/Honolulu-Hotti.../dp/B0044KM1VI Here's a sample of the author's blog about Honolulu Hottie: I’m going to talk about something you can get for free, so be sure to read to the end. Or skip to the section marked FREE. :-) In 1989 I read my first cyberpunk novel, William Gibson’s Mona Lisa Overdrive. That novel got me reading science fiction again. Until then, I’d been on a Fantasy bender for the six years, and yes, you can get drunk on fantasy. My apologies to my brother and sister, for making them dress like hobbits and forcing them to call me The Great One. They partied like ewoks on Endor when I moved out for college. Cyberpunk is considered an old genre (the cool kids are doing steampunk) but it appeals to the mundane science fiction reader in me. It’s mundane because Cyberpunk has similarities to reality, such as the absence of spaceships flitting from star to star at speeds faster than light (at least OUR spaceships). Cyberpunk stories are near future and filled with high-tech lowlifes. It’s a good genre for tales of “warning” because it’s mundane enough to see how our day-to-day life contributes to the tale’s vision. What’s Hawaiian cyberpunk? Sunglasses and surfboards with datajacks? (Might as well do something with that leash around surfer’s leg.) Honolulu Hottie is my take on it. It’s a novelette which is like a novel but a third of the size because I only kept the good parts. The story’s about Nafi, a world champion surfer who got a regular job but get’s seduced by a political activist. She gets him in trouble, he loses his job, and they’re on the run from a corporate coverup that requires them dead. Surfboards, datajacks, crime, and poi. You know, Hawaiian cyberpunk. (Visit the following url to read more: http://www.lancerkind.com/2010/09/27...berpunk-story/ ) Last edited by Lancer Kind; 12-17-2010 at 10:23 AM. Reason: Added book cover and Kindle book info.

10-18-2010, 02:17 AM	#3
Lancer Kind Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: iPhone	You may not need to buy. But get one because they make learning easier You don't even have to buy one because if you already have the correct hardware, you can get the reader software for free. I cover some of the features and quirks of Kindle and Calibre in the review linked beneath my signature. ==>Lancer--- http://www.lancerkind.com/2010/10/17...marter-faster/

10-18-2010, 05:53 PM	#4
jaxx6166 Wizard Posts: 1,222 Karma: 769316 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Eternal summer Device: 350, iPad, PW	::facepalm:: Another lost soul. Dude, lots of people don't have kindles, don't want kindles, don't want anything to do with Kindle. To sell your baby to half the population is essentially shooting yourself in the foot. And if you plan on sticking around here a little bit longer, know that we're pretty wary of emailing anyone for anything listed "free" regardless of whether you promise to not spam us or give us the one ring. Shame, I really want to like you too. And your honorable mention of WotF will give you plenty of street juice as far as the big six are concerned. I'm going to beat WW to the punch here and suggest you get a smashwords account asap. Regardless of my having every major e-reader hardware, I refuse to buy anything on Kindle that's exclusive to Kindle. Your blog reads well, you've got some juice, and the book sounds pretty sweet. But maybe consider revising your marketing strategy. What works in the kindle boards on amazon doesn't work here. Until I can find you on SW, you won't be getting a sale from me. And I'm sure there's a couple hundred of people here that would feel the same as me. Sorry bud. Oh and funny story, before I clicked your site or this thread, I thought your book was an erotica story. Good luck man Last edited by jaxx6166; 10-18-2010 at 06:07 PM.

10-23-2010, 06:35 AM	#7
Lancer Kind Member Posts: 12 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: iPhone	Got you covered--ebook in the email Sorry about the delay. I'll go down to the IT center and beat the IT people. ;-) Sending out free ebooks isn't yet automated so that means every few weeks, I check the DB for new subscribers and then send them free ebooks. The good news is that now you're a subscriber, you'll get the next ebook I release late this year (Caveman Funk) without sweating any of this. Thanks for your interest! Keep the faith!

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crich70 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,310 Karma: 43993832 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Monroe Wisconsin Device: K3, Kindle Paperwhite, Calibre, and Mobipocket for Pc (netbook)	I wonder what is going on. I signed up (on the 17th) and have yet to receive the ebook in question. I even wrote him a PM about it and haven't heard back yet.

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HaoleKai Enthusiast Posts: 28 Karma: 14 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: Kindle	Surfboards, datajacks, crime, and poy. You lost me at poy. I don't read fiction anyway, but this tells me you shouldn't be writing about Hawai'i.