Free Book Giveway for Nano Zombie

 

For the month of September, Nano Zombie will be available for free through Barnes & Noble, Apple, Sony, Smashwords, Kobo, and Diesel.  Amazon is excluded from this deal since for freebies they require exclusive content via KDP Select.  Get it while you can and be ready for the second book of the series!

Smashwords Now Reporting Free Books via Apple - but what's this?

 For the longest time, selling through Apple via Smashwords gave an author no idea how many free units were being moved.  This lack of information led to a sort of feedback vaccum.  However, this has all changed today.

When I went to my Smashwords account, I noticed a massive jump in my Apple Sales.  With giddy excitement, I went to examine the sales report.  It turns out that these sales were actually my free books - mostly Murder at Zero Hour and as part of my recent summer sale giveaway.

And a closer look revealed a little secret - I'm being charged for these free book downloads.  Often only a penny per title, or a few pence or Euros, but with a few hundred titles, this does add up to a few dollars.  Is Smashwords really going to charge me for user downloading my free novels?  That is the million dollar question.

In the meanwhile, I've pulled the free books listed on my Summer Sale.  Everything is going back to the normal price, with the exception of Murder at Zero Hour which has been a freebie for so long that it has multiplied across multiple sites - some legal and some not.

Summer Giveaway: Free Ebooks

Excluding Amazon, there will be a summer giveaway of the majority of my books.  Check out Smashwords, Apple, Barnes & Noble, or Sony to get yours.

Titles will include: Horror America, Malediction, Lonely Are the Dead, and At Harper's Ferry.

My latest book, Nano Zombie, will still remain at full price.

Why is Amazon excluded?  Simple: They don't allow zero pricing on their books unless the titles are enrolled in KDP Select.

A not-so new book: Lonely Are The Dead

I've recently decided to create new book covers for the majority of my work, excluding the ancient Jack Blackwood trilogy.  Headline is the last of the bunch to get a spiffier image (Dreamstime once again) along with a minor rewrite to fix just a few spelling and technical errors.  Instead of using the old title, which was too generic, I decided to rename it Lonely Are The Dead.

I honestly forgot how much I liked writing (and rereading) this book.  Though it's fairly short, the action is fast paced and filled with surprises.  Check out the link on Amazon.  Also available at Barnes & Noble, Sony, Apple, and many other small ebook retailers.

Headline is now available on Smashwords

Now on Smashwords

I've been freed of Amazon's 90-day KDP Select obligation, so Headline, my latest book, is now published via Smashwords.  From there, it will be distributed to Apple, Kobo, B&N, Sony, and a few other sites of lesser importance.  Really, I have no complaints about Amazon's KDP service since the majority of my sales have been through their site.  Headline was a particular surprise with sales quickly outpacing any of my other works.

"New" Book now published on Amazon

  

Available Here

This is a re-write of "Of Ghosts & Gunpowder" with a new title and cover, and some further changes to the content.  With the success of Headline on Amazon's Select KDP, I thought it best to take my favorite work and try once again to break it into the market.  The original "Of Ghosts and Gunpowder" will no longer be available from any retailer.

Starting on Saturday, June 2nd, Horror America will be available for Free.  This special promotion will only last four days, so have at it.

Move over Sherlock Holmes! When the supernatural game's afoot, helpless people call on the good Dr. Townsend to save them. Ghosts, the undead, werewolves, and more horrors that man was not meant to see are loose in 1870s America, so it's up to Captain Parker, a gunslinger for hire, and Dr. Townsend to stop the horror. Yet when Townsend's beautiful daughter falls under the spell of a mysterious suitor, their fortitude will be tested in a battle like no other. Written in a series of connected short stories narrated by Parker, this novel will keep you turning pages late into the night.