Showing posts with label Smashwords. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Smashwords. Show all posts

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Read an Ebook Week!

Running March 4th through March 10th is National (International? Has this thing gone international yet?) Read an Ebook Week. As such, many Independent Ebook authors and publishers (myself included) are offering their works for a discount (as cheep as free!).

My first NRaEW was three years ago, where I offered Project Zero: Bulletproof for the insanely discounted price of $0.00. That's right, I offered it for free. In that one week, almost 100 new readers discovered Lance Maxwell, Rain, and the entire world of Project Zero: Bulletproof. For FREE!

And, as I'm not a jerk (not most of the time, anyway, and usually not intentionally), I continue to offer PZ:B every year for free during NRaEW (Wow, even the acronym is kind of lengthy). I was hoping the new edition would've hit the Kindle store by now (the Smashword's Kindle distribution channel is wacky when it comes to updates), but their is a Kindle/Nook/ePub/Kobo/iPad compatible version on Smashwords right now!

So, follow the links above, or below (I'm sure I'll post the link, like, 50 more times) and discover what hundreds (let's try to make it thousands) of readers already have. A story of one man coming of age and coming to terms with a power he doesn't understand.

Use coupon code RE100 to get Project Zero: Bulletproof for free for your eReader of choice.

Friday, March 11, 2011

Read an eBook Week Marches On!

I truly believe that RAEW is in March just so I can make stupid puns like that. It...Marches on? Get it? March, marches...eh, my humor is wasted on the youth. Lousy kids and their rock music and their hoochy goochy dancing.

Oh...k...I'm going to stop myself there before I sound completely like a crotchety old person. Like the one that just walked by my window. Anyone else ever feel like screaming "Zombie!" when you see an old person shambling down the road?

But what I really want to talk about is, as the title implies, Read an eBook Week. My goal for the past two years is to get 50 new readers during this week. I need nine more between now and tomorrow night to reach that goal. So for anybody who has read it (or downloaded it and never got around to reading it), tell your friends. I'm going to put it on its own line so everyone sees it.

IF YOU HAVE DOWNLOADED PROJECT ZERO, PASS IT ON! TELL YOUR FRIENDS!

Now I feel like one of those saps on the street corner passing out fliers (flyers?) for coupons/events. Remember to use COUPON REFREE to get it for free. Or not. Then I get some money out of it.

I've been toying with different styles of writing lately, and one has kinda stuck with me: 1st person perspective. It seems to be all the rage with YA literature, and a lot of my short stories tend to be 1st Person. So I started rewriting the opening chapters of Project Zero. I like it. I don't know if it works for the whole book. In that respect, though, I also have a few ideas for the series. Don't know if they'll pan out, so I won't reveal what they are yet. No need to cause an uproar over nothing.

My thoughts and prayers go out to those affected by the 8.9 Earthquake that tore up Japan today and sent Tsunamis into the coasts of the US, among other countries. It really makes you feel like kind of a D-bag to be worrying about the small stuff when the world is falling apart (literally).