Does Free Reign?

Dina Santorelli asked me guest post about offering “One Final Night” free to readers. Read the full post here. What do you think when you see something offered for free? Does it alter your perception of the writer/provider? Do you then expect to get everything from that person for free?

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Final day for the 99c deal on Come the Shadows

Just a quick post in reminder that today is the last day to get Come the Shadows for 99 cents! Kindle – Come the Shadows Nook – Come the Shadows Smashwords – Come the Shadows The short story One Final Night (which now has a few more 5-stars on Amazon!) will remain free.

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Had to happen eventually

My worst fear was that when I published I would wake up one day and be inundated with 1-star reviews declaring me the William Hung of self-publishers. As yet, it hasn’t happened. But I did receive my first 1-star review yesterday, on the short story One Final Night (which has now been downloaded 23k+ times). [...]

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Wendy @ Wall-to-Wall Books reviews One Final Night

Wendy, who recently reviewed Come the Shadows, has read and reviewed One Final Night on her blog. She doesn’t normally touch short stories but liked the book enough to give this one a chance. Result? She liked it even more than the book and says (I hope she doesn’t mind me quoting her email.) “skip [...]

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Almost 13,000 – and counting

12749 people have downloaded One Final Night from Amazon, and a few of them have even taken the time to give (very nice) reviews. I know it’s a drop in the bucket, and some people actually sell that many copies of something in the same amount of time but it’s really gratifying simply to have [...]

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Open to the possibilities

I posted this weekend that I was reducing the price of Come the Shadows for this weekend only. Well…I changed my mind. “One Final Night” is now #18 out of all free downloads for Amazon Kindle (and doubled in rank at Barnes & Noble). I’m overjoyed to see that! In addition, it has garnered several [...]

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This Weekend Only: Come the Shadows is 99c

After Amazon finally listened and made my short story One Final Night free (totally KO’ing my planned REPORT ME PLEASE post), I decided to drop my book in price for this weekend only. So for 99c you can it up for both Kindle and Nook for the next 48 hours. Kindle Link Nook Link Monday [...]

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Download my short story FREE

I have decided to make my short story One Final Night FREE on Smashwords. You can download it here and read it in half-an-hour, flat. (Be ready to cry!) Alisa was the first person to download it and she wrote a wonderful post about it on her blog, Blog The Day Away, where she and [...]

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