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A Science Fiction Adventure

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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!
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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.
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How Long Is A Piece Of String?

Has anyone a definitive word count for each type of piece?

A Nice Cup of Tea and a sit down.

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!

What is it all about? Please tell me....

I have noticed that alot of the time, we spend in life saying what cannot be done.....
As a relentless optimist, and annoyingly cheerful person at the most unfortunate point where I cross paths with misery laden souls; I ponder how utterly different life would be if for just one day everyone took to looking at all things in the most positive light they could. I mean that, and this is not a slight on those with real problems, but why not try it?
You have nothing to loose. Except some worry lines or a small modicum of smug delight in being as miserable as possible.
I can say this.... because I have had a bad week, not just in that someone nicked my parking space (they couldn't do that I don't have a car). Or someone ate all the chocolate cookies (I'm allergic to biscuits). But that the boiler broke totally on the coldest day of the year, I went to a funeral, and I had someone crying on my shoulder who was actually in need: kind of puts it into perspective doesn't it?
So I decided to count up all the good things. Because there are always alot more than you think! And remember that however bad any one thing is, it will pass.
Today the sun is shining. I will put it on my list of good things, smile, and look for others to add to it.
So here is a little good thing while I remember: Please note down voucher code VG39G and click link to get a FREE copy of my ebook
Not Without My Cat

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