Happy Easter!! YU23P coupon code 75% off my novel at Smashwords.
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Sunday, 31 March 2013
Easter Egg: Supply your own chocolate.
Sunday, 24 March 2013
Friday, 15 March 2013
FREE!! Taste a New Book Today
1. Make Note of code: VG39G
2. Go to book page.
3. Create login (very easy)
4. Click "Buy" on the format for your device.
5. Download FREE copy of Not Without My Cat (When fish is not enough).
A Science Fiction Adventure
Monday, 11 March 2013
Still Spring Fresh
Free Book for Fans: A Science Fiction Adventure!
"Not Without My Cat (When fish is not enough)" has proved popular with fans of the genre. Taking part in Read an eBook week generated a fantastic response.
So now with Voucher code: VG39G (please note down), you can still get your copy of the eBook FREE.
On Smashwords you can create a simple login, and then you can collect lots of goodies.
Smashwords allows you to download the same book to multiple devices across different formats (ePub, Mobi, PDF, RTF, Plain text). DRM free... so it does not weird out your device!
You can download books that you buy as many times as you want, even if they were bought for free!
Take code VG39G
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This voucher is valid to: End of March
Sunday, 10 March 2013
Time Travel? All part of the Adventure
With just over an hour to go on read an ebook week!!
But right now it is 5 mins before tomorrow morning.
That is of course because I'm in England. Why awake at this hour time travelling or not? I always am. Off to Sunday service for our 8 in the morning. So I will have thoughts wandering to Smashwords figures when sitting in a pew! Phew!! What a great week it has been! Thankyou all those lovely readers who support us writers, and if you are a writer, I hope a rush of last minute book downloads make your day complete!
Free ebook until midnight (8 in the morning GMT)
Saturday, 9 March 2013
FRONT PAGE NEWS.
I just discovered my book Not Without My Cat is on page one of the Science Fiction category at Smashwords for the "Read an eBook Week"; this is for the books selected on tabs of: 100% off; Units sold; Epic (100k words).
I am utterly delighted to be up there and selling, for free, my Science fiction adventure.
A good put your feet up read, with mystery, danger, paradoxical events, a bewildered detective and his timey-whimy Cat.
Includes sushi, romance, modern art, cocktails, corrupt scientists, blackmail, time travel and dangling from a tall building.
The first in a series of books. The next due out Summer 2013: Cloud Field.
With just a few hours to go until Read a eBook week ends: get your free copy by clicking the link and using code RW100 to buy your copy for $0-00.
Not Without My Cat Book Page
How Long Is A Piece Of String?
Has anyone a definitive word count for each type of piece?
Is a novel of a minimum length? Are there any actual rules about this? I found myself looking at word counts in relation to value for money when I'm buying an eBook. For my own work I came up with the ideal solution; every 33,000 words roughly will cost $1. From observation that is a fair price. I think that the reader doesn't want to pay alot for a shorter less meaty read, when there is another book for the same price for triple the word count.
My main gripe is NOT that shorter books are offered online... far from it. I just read a great Novella by Brandon Sanderson and really enjoyed it. But that is the key, it was called a NOVELLA. It didn't pretend to be a novel, which I understand to be a book of 60,000 words or above. So I was a happy customer, the description matched the content. Of course I want to buy a book that is well written, exciting, intriguing and enjoyable; but the feeling that I might run out of string is not pleasant. Normally I like long books! I love to get my teeth into something when I have the time.... that is the thing at the moment. The piece of string has to be the length to suit the reader and their reading habits, personal preferences, and tastes in fiction.
But just as I like to get a big vat of strawberries and guzzle them to my hearts content, I don't want to find out I could have got a better, juicer... and larger punnet from the stall next door.
I think it makes sense to not try to get away with describing your short story/novella as a novel, when it plainly isn't. I came across this recently, and having clicked onto the page of a writer whose "novels" were on display, was disappointed to find perilously low word counts. I felt offended because I write past the 100,000 word line every time. My next two novels will be both a good read.
Anyway.... food for thought. I ask that you sell your wares fairly, describe them accurately, and don't hike your prices through the roof! And if you are a savvy reader you'll already know what you would see as a bargain, and what IS good value. So let us reckon on our potential readers and future fans being given a good deal.
Click here for 135,000+ words of Science Fiction Adventure totally FREE until midnight Saturday; Pacific Standard Time.
(Read an Ebook Week, get it while the fruit just drops from the tree!)
Enjoy!
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| A Nice Cup of Tea and a sit down. |
My main gripe is NOT that shorter books are offered online... far from it. I just read a great Novella by Brandon Sanderson and really enjoyed it. But that is the key, it was called a NOVELLA. It didn't pretend to be a novel, which I understand to be a book of 60,000 words or above. So I was a happy customer, the description matched the content. Of course I want to buy a book that is well written, exciting, intriguing and enjoyable; but the feeling that I might run out of string is not pleasant. Normally I like long books! I love to get my teeth into something when I have the time.... that is the thing at the moment. The piece of string has to be the length to suit the reader and their reading habits, personal preferences, and tastes in fiction.
But just as I like to get a big vat of strawberries and guzzle them to my hearts content, I don't want to find out I could have got a better, juicer... and larger punnet from the stall next door.
I think it makes sense to not try to get away with describing your short story/novella as a novel, when it plainly isn't. I came across this recently, and having clicked onto the page of a writer whose "novels" were on display, was disappointed to find perilously low word counts. I felt offended because I write past the 100,000 word line every time. My next two novels will be both a good read.
Anyway.... food for thought. I ask that you sell your wares fairly, describe them accurately, and don't hike your prices through the roof! And if you are a savvy reader you'll already know what you would see as a bargain, and what IS good value. So let us reckon on our potential readers and future fans being given a good deal.
Click here for 135,000+ words of Science Fiction Adventure totally FREE until midnight Saturday; Pacific Standard Time.
(Read an Ebook Week, get it while the fruit just drops from the tree!)
Enjoy!
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Under your own steam (as they say over here).
Doing it independently, and loving the freedom to write the kind of book I enjoy reading myself!
Cup of tea anyone?
Free ebook this week!
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Debut Novel at Smashwords is a winner.
Not Without My Cat (When fish is not enough)
Just walking down the hill today to meet best author pal, and another book alert came on Email. I was still super happy later that afternoon. We are comparing download numbers.
It is thrilling to share something you have created.
Books are wonderful!! I want to share the joy of creation, and give the joy of reading.
READ AN EBOOK WEEK is on now until March 9.
Not Without My Cat (When fish is not enough) is a Nanowrimo winner from November 2012. It is a Science Fiction Adventure, with a some detective mystery in the mix.
Coming up Roses!!
Special things flower in spring! I am part of "Read an eBook week"
Until March 9th it is Free on Smashwords.
Not Without My Cat (When fish is not enough) is a Science Fiction Adventure.
A full length novel, and NanoWrimo winner 2012.
Smashwords page for Not Without My Cat
Sunday, 3 March 2013
Read an Ebook Week: Free Book
Not Without My Cat a science fiction adventure, is FREE for this week only!
Published on Smashwords the great site for independent authors.
Download to every ebook reader
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