As you most vividly recall, two weeks back or so, I conducted a giveaway on Goodreads, which allowed pretty much anyone to submit their names and enter the lottery, for a chance to win one of the ten signed copies of The Broken, the second book in The Lost Words series.
Hello friends. Well, I am running a free book giveaway on Goodreads. It is available from August 14 to August 21, and all it takes for you to enter the giveaway for a chance to win a signed copy of The Broken, the second book in The Lost Words series, is to hop yonder and exercise some mouse clicks. Shouldn’t be too demanding.
Hi guys, some good news. The Kindle edition of The Broken has been released. And while Amazon are still setting up some of the fine details here and there, the book is available for purchase and use, at a very affordable price, I might add. So if you’re interested, and you very well should be, please hop over to Amazon and do your thing.
Remember that song by Sabrina, Boys Boys Boys? Well, it’s the same thing here, really, only completely different. Anyhow, after several weeks of waiting, some bureaucracy delays, some more waiting, a bit of hustling, pushing, shoving, and arguing with various clerks, I finally got my promotional shipment of books. They are here, the handsome load some 50 kg in mass, or weight, if you will. This means the moment the Limerick competition is over, I will be mailing the books to the lucky winners, as well as the last year’s brave participants.
Survival is a mean, cold bastard. You think you’ve got it all figured out, then the world ends, and you realize, well, not quite. At least, that’s what the twelve stories in The End, a short story apocalyptic anthology featuring speculative fiction written by the SFFWorld.com forum members, tell us. And so you learn that the end can be faced in many different ways, by being nice to your floor cleaner, by ingesting bacteria, through introspection, with celestial physics making its naughty things.
Anyhow, some of us agreed to do a tour. Each week, someone else would blog shortly about their experience with the anthology, and give a short blurb on a story that impressed them, an angle they liked best, a message they would like to focus on. This week is my turn, and so let me tell you what I had in mind.
All right, we have boldly marched into a new year. As a present for you reading my stuff, I gave the first book in my epic fantasy series for free, for three days, on Amazon.com, in its Kindle format. Pretty much the same thing we did to celebrate Dedoimedo’s sixth birthday. So no that we’re done with the partying, let’s take a look at the results.
This year, the holidays come early, because I have a gift for you. Starting midnight Pacific Time on December 19, which would be approx. 16 hours from now, The Betrayed, my first book in The Lost Words epic fantasy saga, will be free for download for three days. In order words, you get a free e-copy of my book.
Something amazing happened. Apparently, the free label has its charms. And for three days, from June 26 to June 28, people from all over the world flocked to The Betrayed Amazon.com page to get the Kindle edition of the book for zero money. As you recall, I made the book freely available as part of the Dedoimedo’s sixth year birthday celebration. So what happened during these three jolly days? Well, among other things, the book peaked as high as spot #3 in the Epic Fantasy category. But let me not spoil everything. Follow me.
Perhaps it is Dedoimedo’s birthday, but it is YOU who are getting the presents. As a part of my tech site’s birthday celebration, I am offering The Betrayed for free for a limited period of time. No strings attached. Just hop over to the Amazon page and download the e-book to your reader. Done.
Dear fellows, it’s been two weeks since I’ve announced my win-a-free-book contest and it’s now officially over. Luckily for me, I will not need be crying in a corner forever alone, as I’ve managed to get more than ten entries submitted. To be more precise, a total of seventeen different people mailed me, and I had two more friends abstain from their participation knowing they would get their free copies anyway.
I must admit I found the total number of submissions surprising both in a good way and a bad way. I’d expect more people to want to get free stuff, even if it’s a fantasy book, but given Dedoimedo’s demographics, mostly hardcore geeks who tend to mistrust and treat everything with scorn, seventeen is a good number. On the brighter side, seventeen strangers want to read my book, which is not a bad thing at all. Let’s announce them.