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Ho! Ho! Ho! Holiday Sale for E-books!

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I was going to wait until Boxing Day for this, and make it a post-Holidays sale, but … what the heck. Time to deck the halls and jingle some bells! Kindle sale !!! 🙂

I went and marked down the Kindle version of Blood Game to $2.99, which was as low as Amazon would let me go without doing something weird to the royalties structure. Obviously I’m hoping to get more readers and more reviews, drawing in the people who were squeamish about buying the book before. Now they can get it for less than what Amazon offers in digital rewards when you to agree to later shipments.

And then I did something similar for Crying Call, the sequel, which comes out on my birthday (February 3rd). I priced that one at $3.99, and made it available for pre-order.

So this is important … if you’re one of the folks who pre-ordered it before now, or if you’d like to join that group of people, please click on the image of the book cover below. It’s a link to where you can pre-order it in its Kindle format. Pre-orders in the old format should disappear in the week or so, so switching to the new one will keep you on schedule to get Crying Call on the release date. And the fact that it’s now less than half the previous price is another nice perk!

One thing I’ve learned in my first year of publishing is that I probably overpriced my e-books the first time. So this is me correcting that mistake. Hopefully I’ll get a lot more readers this time around, and a lot more reviews.

And it’s the reviews I really, really need. Good reviews are way more valuable to me than the teeny tiny revenues I’m getting. Having lots of reviews is the only way indie authors like myself can be seen and get promoted by the cold, blind machines of Amazon and other online distributors.

If you like my work, and want to help me out, please leave a good online review. Amazon is the best place for that, but Barnes&Noble and GoodReads reviews help too. And please do that for every other author you like, too. I can’t tell you how much we appreciate it.

Buon Natale!

Poker in the Ears, Author in the Rear?

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After mentioning me and Blood Game at the start of the podcast, you have to wait until about the 52:23 mark before my 25-minute interview begins. But as a bonus, when they’re done talking to me, one of the hosts and one of the fans of the podcast compete in a trivia contest about my book. It’s pretty cool! Check it out if you haven’t already. The Spotify link if below, but you can also find this wherever else you get your podcasts.

It was a little bit of wish fulfillment getting on that show, because I’ve been a fan of it for … jeez … I’m not even sure. Four or five years, I’d guess. Since whenever it was I first stumbled onto it, during COVID quarantine probably.

And in the wake of this podcast, I’ve been invited onto “Indie Author Reads,” to record an episode that’ll probably air in late April or early May. This one will be me reading an excerpt or two from Blood Game, and talking to the host before and after and maybe in-between.

In the mean time, I’m still scoping out book conventions and other opportunities to do book signings. And I’m waiting on information about whether Blood Game will be nominated for awards. I should get the first information about that sometime in the next month.

In other words, I’m doing all the things authors are supposed to do, except … I’m not spending as much time writing as I probably should. I need to work on my time management, as well as the resilience to keep on churning out the words no matter good and bad directions life pulls me.

So back to the writing then. I’m about 17,000 words into the first draft of Book 3, a.k.a. Drawing Dead, and it’s long past time I kicked that into a higher gear.