In some parts of the world, it is customary to receive gifts on your birthday. I prefer the Hobbit method, where you give presents, so you actually receive them every day rather than once a year. A very neat concept, no. Now, in a couple of weeks, my primary site Dedoimedo celebrates the end of its eighth year of existence, hence gifts. For you.
Yes, I am being benevolent again, sooner than expected. Next week, a lot of cool things are going to happen. On Tuesday, May 6, The Broken is going to be free for 24 hours. The morning after, Wednesday, May 7, the first book in my epic series, The Betrayed will be free for a whole of one day. Amazon, Kindle edition, PST timezone. But there’s more.
This is like the shortest post EVAR in the history of Internet posts. Books, Amazon, free, now, enjoy, you’re welcome. The Betrayed, as we speak till tomorrow night, The Broken, starting Thursday till Friday.
My benevolence knows no bounds. Next week, both the first and the second book in my epic fantasy series, The Lost Words, will be free for download from Amazon, for two days each. Respectively, the Kindle edition of The Betrayed will be available on Mar 25-26, from midnight, Pacific Time, and The Broken will be available on Mar 27-28. In layman’s terms, free grub Tuesday to Friday.
And when I say mine, I mean yours. Now, so far you have only had two books, which means we cannot discuss those who survive into the third and fourth installment of this series, but we sure can dabble a little into the protagonists, antagonists and other gonists featured in The Betrayed and The Broken.
Let us announce the happy winner of this contest. All in all, more than forty people pledged, or had their names pledged to the contest, including the participants of the original my-best-software and the subsequent limerick contests. However, only 22 of them wrote their reviews in time, before the official expiry date of Year 2013. We even had one exception, of a contestant who could not purchase the book on Amazon due to regional restrictions and whatnot, but they got their book by postal mail and subsequently wrote their opinion on Goodreads.
The holiday season is still upon us. But the giveaway is over now. However, we can discuss the ups and downs of what happened in the four days my two books, The Betrayed and The Broken, were free for all on the Amazon site. Indeed, this is the breakdown of the zero-cost fun.
The holiday season is upon us. This means gifts. Since you ain’t giving me any love, I’m gonna give you love back instead. Ergo, ispo facto, hence, to wit, hereforth, thusly, you get both my first and second book in The Lost Words epic fantasy series, free, for no less than four days!
Some of you may remember my Ubuntu smartphone contest. It goes as follows. You read my books, either The Betrayed or The Broken or both, and you write a review, and then you become eligible for participation in the Ubuntu smartphone contest, which runs till the end of this calendar year.
On May 15 this year, I started writing the fourth and the last book in the series. A few days ago, let’s call it October 15, I finished the last page in the last chapter of this last book. Five months later, 150 days in total, with 200,000 words spread over 53 chapters, the series is complete. If you’re any good at math, you will realize, it averages to about 1,300 words a day. Compare that to book three, which took 105 days, for some 240,000 words. Now, let’s examine the series as a whole.
