Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Today’s your last day to get Dwarves Can’t Climb Trees on your kindle for Free. Free. Free. FREE! Come on, man. All I want is for people to read my stuff. It’s not a long thing, it’s just a novella. 33,000 words or so. That’s not much commitment, is it? Come on, make a guy feel good. If you don’t, you’ll make this puppy sad. You don’t want a sad puppy, do you? What are you, a communist? I’m sorry, I didn’t mean that communist bit. I was being insensitive. But, please, just pick up a copy. It won’t cost you anything.
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Get My Free Book – Dwarves Can’t Climb Trees
For St. Patrick’s Day (the only other holiday involving short people is Christmas, and that’s its whole other kettle of fish), I’m offering Dwarves Can’t Climb Trees for free. Here are some fun facts about dwarves from my book. Dwarves are an egalitarian society of warriors, miners, and craftsmen. There are six kingdoms/regions. One is in a cold, glacier region. Another is near an active fissure vent that the citizens have to tunnel around to prevent eruption The one in this book takes place in Oakhaven, which is a tall mountain with a lot of snow. In summer, the snow melts and funnels into a river full of meltwater that’s…
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You Can Get a Sweet Novella for Free Right Now
Have you hugged your book today? Don’t have one to hug? Try one of mine! You have until St. Patrick’s Day to pick up my free book. But act now, these deals won’t last forever. After March 17th, the price goes back up to the unaffordable cost of $0.99. Only the 1% will be able to afford it, but you have this unique opportunity. Here are some pictures that inspired the book:
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Dwarves Can’t Climb Trees – FREE
In case you didn’t see it yesterday, there’s a Kindle promotion going on until St. Patrick’s Day that Dwarves Can’t Climb Trees is free. Buy and review! Oh, need a summary? Here you go. Vala has never been like the other dwarves. She’s stubborn, outspoken, and a farmer–a necessary but lowborn occupation among the gem-harvesting miners. And in all likelihood, she’ll end up married to some dull plowman or as a spinster outcast. Every year, young dwarves congregate in a distant valley, mix & mingle, and find someone to marry. Some return with a fine wealthy companion, others with a dull plowman. But the only way Vala can stand out…
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My Promotion on Hidden Gems Romance
So today is the day the first promotion I ever bought goes up. If you’re reading this, you may have come here via such a thing. I bought a day on Hidden Gems Romance for Dwarves Can’t Climb Trees. This is the first promotion I ever bought, and it’s my attempt to start actual marketing for things I’ve written. Apparently sending messages in a bottle reaches a limited audience. Also, I can’t keep drinking all this Coke. But advertising is expensive, so I’m keeping conservative at first, seeing what works and what doesn’t. This is the first one because this is not so much advertising as review soliciting (cause man,…
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The Last of my Query Letters
I sent the last of my query letters for Defender today. A little less than a year after I first finished the thing. Total queries sent: 89. Total bites: 1 Man, I don’t know how you don’t curl up into a ball weeping in this business. Between Black Hole Son, Merm-8, and this, I’ve sent hundreds of query letters and had very minimal response. Not even people who were intrigued with the idea and wanted to see the writing style. Just whoop, reject, not even the 250 words were enough to put the foot in the door. I guess it’s not my third novel. My third novel, I get permission…
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Self-Publishing on Amazon
So the novella’s not available yet, but it seems to be legal for pre-order. Here are some impressions from the process. There is a lot of data to read. Mostly tips about how to maximize the exposure of the book, how to enter information in correctly. As far as I could tell, everything was pretty cut and dried. It’s pretty sophisticated, but also user friendly. Plus I’ve been following Scalzi’s blog and other news about Amazon’s self-publishing notoriety to know what pitfalls to avoid and which to jump into. But that doesn’t mean there wasn’t lots to read. One more thing I ran into that there is only the choice…
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Dwarves Can’t Climb Trees – Now Available for Pre-Order
So, I’ve decided to give self-publishing a try. I wrote this 34,000 word novella, but as you might guess, it’s impossible to get novellas published anywhere (unless you’re a big attractive name). Even the magazines on Duotrope max out at about 20-25,000 words. So I figured this would be a good chance to dip my feet in the Kindle Publishing waters. There’s a lot to consider like Kindle Direct Publishing, KDP, filling out tax forms, waiting for the web site to update. I’ll report back my findings and with any luck, I’ll have some good news to report. Vala has finally been invited to the sacred glen, where she and…
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Too Many Things To Work On
There’s something about all the stuff coming down the line lately that’s starting to paralyze me with fear, at least according to my writing. Merm-8 is supposed to be published on 9/5 (mark your calendars), but there’s still a lot to do. I’ve gotten through content edits three times. But now I’ve got to go through grammar edits. And the problem is the grammar edits haven’t been marked, because they want me to go through the whole text and make sure it’s all right. Which sounds like a bad idea to me. I wrote the story to the best of my ability regarding grammar rules. How would I notice something…
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Some Updates and NaNoWriMo
The local reading I signed up for, I got into. I’m not terribly nervous — it’s a ten minute read, and I’m more worried about falling asleep during the other readings and looking like an asshole. Because, let’s face it, I’m not much into historical fiction or contemporary Midwest settings full of wild rice and prairies. I started a new YA novel venture. I’m not sure if it will end up being for a YA audience, but I’m trying. As far as I know, the only firm-standing qualification for YA fiction is the main character(s) have to be teenagers. It’s basically “Stand By Me” with dwarfs. Girl dwarfs. Ahem. Anyway,…
