Tag: Amazon

Science Fiction and Paranormal Fantasy with a Noir Twist

How Much Does Random Chance Account for a Writer’s Success?

I read a lot posts about marketing and selling books. For the most part, they say the same thing. To succeed, a writer (indie or otherwise) needs to: Blog Have a website or “landing page” for his/her book Use social media (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc.) Develop a “platform” Build connections with a community of readers…
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April 1, 2013 265

Free Ace Stubble Novellas Dead Man’s Hand & Unfinished Business

As the week comes to a close, I’m offering both of my Ace Stubble novellas for free on Amazon. Ace is a lawyer who specializes in helping the undead and disembodied with their legal problems. Werewolves, zombies, ghosts…just because they’re dead or undead or not quite normal, they still get themselves into situations where a…
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March 30, 2013 0

Free Book Week Continues with Take Back Tomorrow

For a couple more days, I’m continuing to celebrate the release of my paranormal fantasy Unfinished Business by offering another free book on Amazon. Today it’s Take Back Tomorrow, a time travel novel set in 1940 that follows the adventures of hack science fiction writer Eddie Royce as he discovers the secret behind the phenomenal…
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March 28, 2013 0

Free Book Week Continues with Strictly Analog

The week rolls on, and I’m continuing to celebrate the release of my paranormal fantasy Unfinished Business by offering another free book on Amazon. Today it’s Strictly Analog, a dystopian science fiction novel set in the near future. It follows Ted Lomax, a private detective living in a society where nothing is private any longer,…
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March 26, 2013 0

Book Launch Week! Today’s Free Download!

To celebrate the release of Unfinished Business, I am offering free books all week. Today’s giveaway is the first Ace Stubble novella, Dead Man’s Hand. It’s a paranormal fantasy with zombies and mobsters, and some zombie mobsters.  Grab your copy on Amazon. If you read it and enjoy it, your Amazon review would be most appreciated.


March 25, 2013 0

The Fiction Writer’s Dilemma–What to Blog About?

I’ve been blogging here for six months now. I enjoy it–find it fun and challenging to think of topics, and it’s nice to run up against an idea and be able to put together a little informal essay on the topic and send it out for the world to see. But at the same time…
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March 12, 2013 17

Dead Man’s Hand Free Urban Fantasy Download Today

Zombies, werewolves, a cute hacker, and a dead man’s hand. What more could you ask for? I’ll tell you what more–how about getting it for free? My novella, Dead Man’s Hand, is available today from Amazon. Have a look! Zombies, werewolves, vampires, rival Bowie tribute bands, and conjoined twin mobsters…it’s all in a day’s work…
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February 21, 2013 0

Arturo Bandini: Patron Saint of Struggling Writers

A couple of weeks ago, in the middle of a Free Kindle promotion for Take Back Tomorrow, my book made up into the Top 5 on Amazon’s “Free Science Fiction” list. For about a day, I was hobnobbing with the likes of David Drake and Jules Verne in terms of downloads. And, absurdly, I heard…
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February 19, 2013 1

Strictly Analog Free on Amazon Today

Strictly Analog, a dystopian science fiction novel, is available as a free download today at Amazon. Ted Lomax does his best to get by as a private detective in a society where almost nothing is private any more. He lives in a near-future California that has gained independence from the economically collapsed United States and…
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February 14, 2013 0

To Free or Not to Free?

So you’re finished writing your book. It’s revised and edited and ready to go. You’ve formatted it for Kindle, but you have a choice to make. To enroll or not to enroll–that’s one more question you have to ask yourself. When I first launched Take Back Tomorrow a little more than a year ago, I…
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February 11, 2013 2