PROMOTE!

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

In the comments below tell me what works you have out that you want to promote this week, what you have free, what will come out, etc.

Come on, don’t be shy.  I’ll do a post on it tomorrow!

39 thoughts on “PROMOTE!”

  1. I have nothing this week but for future reference, is blog/essay pimping acceptable for these, or is it strictly works for sale? It’s going to be a while before I have any of those.

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  2. I just put out a collection of short stories, “The Shredded Veil Mysteries.”

    December 21st, 2012 hadn’t been the end of the world, but the Great Unraveling.

    The veils between the Seen and Unseen worlds had shredded.

    The living had suddenly learned they weren’t alone.

    Andy had seen it all, done it all, as a detective working Vice when he’d be alive. Now, as a ghost, he works as a private investigator.

    Come explore the mysteries of Heaven and Hell, of cameras with souls, and thieves with hearts.

    Includes the short stories “Hell By Any Other Name,” “To Hell And Back,” “Hell For The Holidays,” “High Stakes Hell,” and “Postcards From Hell.”

    It’s available all the usual places, but I’ll just include the Amazon link: http://amzn.to/PL4eoQ

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  3. I have a novella on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Plant-Life-ebook/dp/B008BMBF6W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1349579069&sr=8-1&keywords=plant+life%2C+sanderson. A SF story of first contact, but not your usual encounter with aliens. How human is a genetic replica? How much emotion should a planetary scout allow themselves towards the unknown and unknowable? I love to read first contact stories, and drew elements from a favorite Art Noveau illustration as well.

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        1. Thanks – and a reminder to all: such information might well prove vital to anybody contemplating trying your wares.

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  5. Did I remember to give a link, last time you did this? I can’t remember. :( If I didn’t, All That Glitters, which should hopefully mostly stand alone… http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009F741QS at Amazon (no DRM) and https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/238269 at Smashwords (also no DRM). (I don’t think B&N has it yet, but it’s theoretically trickling through and should get there eventually…) Smashwords allows a 50% sampling, and I encourage sampling!

    Low-magic fantasy with a dose of romance — or at least relationship, including some moderately explicit sex(y, I hope) stuff.

    (And if a book with an AI viewpoint character is Human Wave… https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/148566 or http://www.amazon.com/Queen-of-Roses-ebook/dp/B007R8G4J4/ … :) Same set-up, same price.)

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  6. My book “Hannah Sawyer” is available now on Amazon in Kindle format, hard copy will follow next week. It is the third book in the Kinsella Universe. No, I can’t write a book every month, I have a backlog of stuff I’ve posted online. Hannah Sawyer is a diffident young woman who is caught up in a unimaginable war, a war that requires the best efforts of everyone if humanity has any chance at all of surviving. She learns bitter lessons about what bravery is, what duty is, and above all, who she is.

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      1. Sorry about the problems. This year I found that my site was registered with a fly by night, who went out of business. I haven’t been able to get the original URL back and sometimes I forget that it has changed from .com to .net. I have corrected the link to my site here.

        The link to my book is http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009I5S7KS. And I will never, ever publish anything with DRM

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  8. The Sequel to my first novel, Limbo’s Child, is coming out around Christmas (with any luck) but the first one is available on Kindle now! It’s getting great reviews. There’s a sample chapter of the next book in the current one.

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  9. It’s not quite an indie work in the publication sense yet, but I’m currently writing one-a-day or thereabouts nanofics set in my SF universe, the Associated Worlds. Some story, lots of metafiction and vignette-type work. And while I’m currently posting them to my blog:

    http://eldraeverse.com/category/writing/fic-a-day-writing/

    …I do plan to collect them, the rest of this year’s. and some longer pieces into an actual e-book (and possible physical book) sometime around the start of next year. If that would qualify, I would surely appreciate a pointer!

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  10. Chromosphere Press just released my SF short story, “The More Things Change.” It’s available on Kindle and Nook.

    November 6, Travis Taylor and I will have a nonfiction book coming out from Baen titled, “A New American Space Plan.”

    November 15, Book 4 of my Displaced Detective series, “The Case of the Cosmological Killer: Endings and Beginnings” will be released.

    Both the latter 2 works will be in print and ebook.

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  13. “Down to Earth” the sequel to “April” will be free to download for Amazon Kindle all day Monday the 8th. April is a young resident of an orbital habitat who eagerly got involved in a rebellion and war of independence. “Down to Earth” continues her adventures after the war trying to keep what they have won. The third book in the series, “The Middle of Nowhere” will be ready later this year.

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  14. I’m dangerously close to releasing my first book of any kind. Its an indie published ebook that should be coming out in early November or late October if the stars align. The title is “Mistress of the Dancing Bones” and its a fantasy novel set in an area very reminiscent of 1800’s France and Tibet. And it has vampires. And liches. Details are at thomasalexanderbooks.blogspot.com for now.

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  15. My SF novel “Luck and Death at the Edge of the World” and my novelette “The Virgin Birth of Sharks” both came out this year (May and July). All my books are available through my Amazon author page(http://tinyurl.com/NasOnAmazon) and through Kobo and WHSmith through the links on my home page (www.NassauHedron.com). Both books have an extensive “Facts in the Fiction” section after the story itself that gives a behind-the-scenes look at the factual background to elements in the fiction. Finally, both books also have brand new companion web pages where prospective readers can find samples from the book and existing readers can find bonus content (http://luckanddeath.wordpress.com/ and http://virginsharks.wordpress.com/). Great blog by the way! Nas Hedron.

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  17. My last collection of short stories is called Ghostly Glimmers II.
    Amazon kindle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009FRSG0A
    Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/238808

    I am putting my novel Perchance to Dream on my blogspot http://scrambledsage.blogspot.com – it is a character-driven supernatural horror story about two women and one man affected by a church run by demons.

    Once I have finished Perchance to Dream, I will do an edit and then put it up in 2013 on Amazon and Smashwords. I am working on Hilda’s Inn for Retired Heroes. This one is a fantasy epic. Plus I will be putting together the second novel on EJ Hunter’s world.

    In the background, I am writing another paranormal romance (my way–not harlequin’s way) between a woman and a motorcycle mechanic werewolf. Plus the hubby and I went to Goldfield for some material for a book I started writing and quit writing a decade ago. It’s a desert story about two different generations of Nevadans. It will end up having supernatural components. ;-)

    So that is what I am doing– I hope I have enough time to finish it all. I have more in the works.

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  18. I have a SF novella called “Lyon’s Legacy,” which is about a scientist’s attempts to sabotage the cloning of her ancestor, a TwenCen rock star. It’s available on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Lyons-Legacy-Catalyst-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B005T82Z0G/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1349623317&sr=1-1&keywords=lyon%27s+legacy, B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lyons-legacy-sandra-almazan/1106468355?ean=2940013232457 and Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/94420. You can find links to the paper and audio versions on my Amazon page: http://www.amazon.com/Sandra-Ulbrich-Almazan/e/B006GQR4KQ/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

    Thanks for the opportunity!

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  20. Five short stories on Amazon Kindle, should probably be found if you search with ‘Kiti Lappi’. I have used a couple of the free promo days, will use the rest but right now I’m undecided as to when. Three are vampire stories, one urban fantasy and one a more traditional one.

    And maybe I should add this since some of you might find some use for it, at least anybody who might be looking either for something to use for cheap/free fantasy style cover pictures, or as references for drawing or painting: I’ve spend the last two days trying to figure out how to use the WordPress free blog option. I’m not going to start actual blogging, too lazy, but that seemed to be the easiest way for me to put up some pictures somewhere. So, mostly photographs for now, some I have played with a bit with the rather crappy editing programs I have. Most of them are of friends of mine running around the nearby castle ruins dressed in a cloak and/or tunic and waving a sword or a staff (I do have a couple of friends who are crazy enough that they actually seemed to enjoy doing that even if there were other sightseers there both times – just one person in every picture, both women, by the way, I went with one friend in the spring and with another last week :)). I mainly plan to use them, myself, as reference photos, but since I didn’t have anything ready when I finally got the nerve to put up those shorts I ended up using a few for (temporary, hopefully) covers.

    If you find anything you like feel free to use it.

    One reason I wanted those pictures originally was that I couldn’t find that many good photos of how a full cloak acts in a wind. So, the cloak used is a full circle one, and both days were somewhat windy. :) But even if the original purpose was fulfilled I liked those photo sessions well enough that I will probably do this a few more times, whenever my models have the time.

    Uh, how do you make links here? The address where you find the photos is kitilappi.com. There isn’t much now, but I will be putting up a lot in the next weeks and months.

    And yes, I do have permission for this from the models.

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  21. This week I republished myself two previously published humorous science fiction short stories. “Strange Harvest” originally appeared in Western People (supplement to an agricultural newspaper!), was reprinted in OnSpec, and had national airing on CBC as part of a series hosted by Nalo Hopkinson. It’s about a small-town reporter who’s trying to figure out where the rash of exploding tomatoes and incendiary radishes is coming from. “Waterlilies,” originally published in Space and Time, is a nanotech apocalypse comedy satirizing modern art…if you like that sort of thing. They’re on Kindle (http://www.amazon.com/Strange-Harvest-ebook/dp/B009KWG8OG/,http://www.amazon.com/Waterlilies-ebook/dp/B009LY7BB2/) and Smashwords (http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/242744, https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/242743). My YA dystopian novel The Chosen and my YA ghost story The Haunted Horn have now also made it to Smashwords.from Kindle Select. The Chosen is at https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/144418 and The Haunted Horn at https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/242736).

    Thanks, Sarah!

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  22. I am an amateur writer that mostly focuses on vintage games. My best work that has gotten the least exposure is probably the interviews I’ve done. I have thought about doing these on some other topics– first hand accounts of men that have served in Afghanistan for instance– but the right opportunity has yet to turn up. (If I meet someone that has a story that needs to be told… I try to do what I can to get it out and edit it down into something accessible and readable.)

    Here are my interviews:

    Ramona Richards, professional writer: http://jeffro.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/exclusive-ramona-richards-interview/

    George Dew, game designer: http://jeffro.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/exclusive-interview-with-george-dew-of-dark-city-games/

    Ken Schultz, witness of a significant moment in game design history: http://jeffro.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/an-insiders-view-of-metagaming-and-the-fantasy-trip/

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  23. The Gentleman and the Rake is an unconventional look at two landmark works of English literature. First, a lighthearted take on the critical events in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice from the perspective of Fitzwilliam Darcy. Then Mr. B, the redeemed rake of Samuel Richardson’s scandalous Pamela, is summoned to court to tell his version of the story. http://eugenewoodbury.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-gentleman-and-rake.html

    And coming later this month, Fox & Wolf, a contemporary fantasy about a werewolf and a kitsune (Japanese werefox).

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  24. Sometimes the course of your life is set out clearly. Sometimes it’s altered by the music you chance to hear in the dead of night when you can’t sleep. And other times, it’s even less predictible than that.

    What wouldn’t you do, “For the fragile Muses…“?

    (It’s a short story I dashed off because I had to. Currently the only thing I’ve got out, but that’s going to change in the next month or two.)

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  25. Sometimes the course of your life is set out clearly. Sometimes it’s altered by the music you chance to hear in the dead of night when you can’t sleep. And other times, it’s even less predictible than that.

    What wouldn’t you do, “For the fragile Muses…“?

    (It’s a short story I dashed off because I had to. Currently the only thing I’ve got out, but that’s going to change in the next month or two.)

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