New Year's Free Promotion - All Releases

To celebrate the New Year, both myself and Ruby Jones are offering our titles for free for a short time starting December 31st!

Check out Ruby's book We Are All Retarded on Amazon by clicking here! Keep in mind, Ruby's book carries an audience recommendation of ADULTS ONLY.

You can pick up my short story Last Night by clicking here. This release is rated 13+ foradult content.

Also make sure to pick up Rumbling Heart which is the first in a series based in and around the Eureka, California universe. You can pick up this release by clicking here. This book is rated 14+ for adult language, adult situations and content, and scenes of dramatic peril.

Get'em fast! This free offer only lasts till January 2nd. Three free books available for three days! Go get'em now!

Hard Call - Dropping Smashwords.com

I tried, I really did. But the time has come for me to stop using Smashwords.com as another source for my book sales. Why? Because I have had ZERO sales from ANY of their channels. This includes their extended channels which include the likes of iTunes. Over the past year, I tried to be patient and even directed people over to Smashwords to check out not only my work, but the work of others. Still, with all the self promotion, I have had absolutely no sales or any website referrals from them.

Amazon offers the KDP select option which is available to any author should they go exclusively with them and in exchange, you get to offer your book free for a few days a quarter. I tried this once and it did wonders for my exposure. Within just a couple of days I had over 600 downloads. I know, I didn't get paid for it, but you have to start somewhere. In this case, sometimes just getting people to read your work is hard enough, let alone getting them to pay for something from an unknown author.

In the end, I am not really losing anything from this move. As I've said, I got no return for the work I did concerning Smashwords. For a good year my work sat there and did nothing, regardless of how much I promoted. At least with Amazon, I do get some sales there and a few reviews. That's more than I can say for Smashwords.

In Search of the Dream Catcher - Help

"It's not that she wants do die. That's not it at all. The situation is just so grim for her. All she's known in her life is pain, suffering...death. From the time she was a little girl she's never known what joy is. I'm sure she has an idea about it, but the experience escapes her. I think she's made up the world she partially lives in to help deal with the sorrow she feels about everything that's happened. She isn't your typical starving artist. She is a heavily damage girl, probably the worst I've seen in my career. My question to you is...is this something you really want to get involved in? Do you really have the resolve to deal with all that will come for you? Because if you can't I suggest you leave now. Just walk away...and never look back. If you get close to her and see all the horrors that have permeated her mind then decide to leave her, you could very well cause unspeakable troubles."

"Why? Why would it be my fault?"

"Because of what you would eventually become to her."

"And what exactly might that be?"

"Maybe you better ask her that question."

 

-Excerpts from "In Search of the Dream Catcher"-