For Sale
BOOM! Hear that? That’s the noise of another SURE-FIRE PUBLISHING WONDER *cough* hitting your download box. Yes sirs and ma’ams, I’ve compiled and published an ebook of all the BESTEST MoVo posts so you don’t have to trawl through the archives to find your spaff-material any more. I’m so generous.
And all for a tiny price of £1.02. What is that? Nothing. A mere sniff. Lovely. So go buy. Pleeeeeease.
The Little Book of motherventing – to buy click here
Thank you, compadres.
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I really am RUBBISH at this self-promoting stuff. I published my book online a few months ago, and, surprise surprise, the sales haven’t really rocketed… obvs all my wonderful friends and family obliged! For which I am ETERNALLY grateful! But now I am hankering after some of that world domination stuff.
So: my book, The Dukkering Boy, is for sale. You can buy it to download onto your Kindle or PC by clicking through to the Amazon page.
PLEASE leave a *cough* five star *cough* review after you’ve purchased and read it.
And who knows? I may get round to writing a new one soon…
The Dukkering Boy – to buy, click here
Gypsy boy Daniel Cooper leads a rough-and-ready life in a busy community of Romany travelling folk. It is the year 1949, and as the country adjusts after the upheaval of war, his family peacefully travel the Welsh country lanes and by-ways, comfortable in their outdoor existence. For Daniel, the lure of a ‘normal’ life becomes very real when he learns that his older brother, who fought in the war, has settled down with a wife and bought a house in a town in Wales. Envious of his brother’s worldly experiences, Daniel longs to free himself of the burden of his family, much to the consternation of his traditionally minded father. Daniel finds comfort and friendship from the gypsy fortune teller, who feeds his curiosity with tales from her life on the road. One night the camp is attacked and Daniel goes to help his friend. She bestows a strange, magical gift upon him, and then mysteriously disappears. When a stunned Daniel returns to the destroyed campsite, his family have gone. The wagons have been torn apart – what were the attackers searching for?
“…it gets a thumbs up from me. I felt like the ending definitely would allow for a sequel, or even a whole series of books about Daniel, so I hope Lewis is inspired to write one as I’d love to know what happens next!” [review from Amazon.co.uk]
See this great cover! It shrieks, ‘BUY ME!’
oooh sounds interesting, wish i had a kindle now, is it available as paperback or is it only digital?
Just online for now, sweetpea
ok ill have a gander at it anyway
Thanks dollface x
Right, finished reading it. I liked it and it is a travesty that you aren’t writing more. There is nothing wrong with your writing and your lack of chart success is down to no-one knowing about it. I know the feeling – my latest book has so far sold about 5 copies! I put a review up on Amazon and Goodreads.
And you really need to get on Goodreads. At first the way the various groups work seems a bit strange but it makes sense after a while. Sign up, send me a friend invite and I can invite you to a couple of groups I am in. You can also sign up as author and claim your book as your own.
There are usually threads where you can post an introduction and then do another post advertising your wares. When it came my latest book I mentioned the Amazon and Smashword links and also included a code that people who wanted to review it could use to get a free copy.
This is an example of what I did – http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/809808-shades-of-grey-michael-cargill-20th-feb-2012
Don’t worry about people using the code just to get a free copy and spreading it around. I have spammed the code in various groups, forums and even my company intranet – it has only been used a total of 21 times so far.
Talking of Smashwords you should put your book on there as well. They push it out to places like Barnes and Noble as well. It also means you can create a code for reviewers to get a free copy. Some reviewers will do giveaways as well that the code can be used for.
Also go to http://wordpress.com/#!/topics/ and search for ‘book reviews’. There are hundreds of bloggers who like reviewing books. Some won’t do ebooks, some won’t do self-published books, etc. But there are plenty out there who will.
Bear in mind it may be several weeks before you actually do see your first review appear.
One last tip. Go onto Amazon Kindle store and search for books of a similar nature to yours. Go to the reviews and click on the reviewer’s name. Some of them have an email address or blog address. Send them an email saying you saw their review and wondered if they would be up for reviewing yours if you give them a free copy.
If my browser now crashes after I have just typed all that out I will be annoyed. It’s daunting but worth it.
Possibly consider writing a short story and putting it up for free on Smashwords and Amazon. Lots of authors have had a boost in sales from that.
Thank you dahling
I added it, just as I said I would. Onwards and upwards as they say:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13480381-the-dukkering-boy
Oh thank you! I so completely forgot to send you the link. Duh. Thanks Mr C. You’re a doll.