Both Princelings of the East and Princelings and the Pirates are included in Smashwords Summer/Winter promotion for the month of July. Use coupon code SSW50 at the checkout for a 50% discount.
Pirates Second Edition out now
The second edition of The Princelings and the Pirates is out now on Smashwords and Amazon. It will take a little while to be ‘shelved’ online at B&N, Kobo and Sony (the Apple Bookstore) but we are told this has
Pirates second edition out soon
I’ve been watching the progress of Princelings and the Pirates closely. It’s getting a lot of Smashwords samples, which suggests something is right. It could be the marketing, it could be the follow-on from readers of the first book, it
A Facebook Advert
Last night on UK tv there was a very interesting documentary on Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook. I was particularly interested in the rationale behind Facebook, and the privacy versus advertising issues. If you Like a product, then the product owner
One percent more for Pirates cliffhanger
I was watching the author’s information on my Smashwords books, pleased that I was getting a steady stream of people downloading the sample. After a while I thought I ought to be getting a few more conversions to buying the
Pirates on Smashwords
The Princelings and the Pirates completed its 90 day exclusive period on KDP Select and has now been published for iPad, Nook, Kobo and other ereaders (including your browser) as well as Kindle. Pirates is the second adventure of Fred
What I learnt in April
This post summarises a lot of thoughts in April, as I didnt want to interfere with the A to Z Challenge. It was a busy month – the Challenge itself, the promotion to visitors to the site who in turn
Book Review: Guardian Cats and the Lost Books of Alexandria
Marco is a cat. And one day Marco discovers he can read. After a devastating change to his home circumstances he leaves, finding his way to the Angel Springs library and meeting Cicero and the rest of the Dead Cats
Book Review: Flash Gold by Lindsay Buroker
I got this book as the first in the series when I got the third in the series during the Read an E-Book Week. Proof that these promotions work for some people! Flash Gold is a short book, but a
Last day of Read an E-Book Week
Princelings of the East is part of the Read an E-Book Week on Smashwords. Use the coupon code REW50 to claim your copy for $1.50 via this link.
50% off in Read an E-Book Week
Princelings of the East is part of the Read an E-Book Week on Smashwords. Use the coupon code REW50 to claim your copy for $1.50 via this link.
Book Review: Cafe Stories by Gerard Guarino
Want a good read that you can dip in and out of without feeling you’ve got to reread a dozen pages to remember all the back story? Time to turn to some short stories. Here are 27 (that’s how many
Book Review: Asylum by Claude Bouchard
This is not a children’s book but is clean, family oriented and intriguing. Dr Russell suddenly decides to solve his family troubles by taking indefinite, unplanned leave from his job, and takes his wife and two kids on the holiday
Princelings Giveaway
Until 10th January 2012, go to Smashwords, buy Princelings of the East, enter code HL79E at the check-out, and get it FREE. This offer is part of the Bee’s Knees Reviews & Beauty Brite Bound by Books Hop 12/26
Now at Apple, Barnes & Noble and more
The Princelings of the East is now in the Premium catalogue at Smashwords. This means it will now be shipped to the major retailers including the Apple iBookstore (where it may be listed already), Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and the
A Christmas present…
Are you one of the people that has downloaded a sample of Princelings of the East at Smashwords but hasn’t got around to buying it yet? A little Christmas present for you then: Buy the book at Smashwords, Enter the
Princelings makes progress
Princelings of the East has now been downloaded 22 times on Smashwords (including 3 by me, in different formats to check), all in its first week. All of those are samples rather than purchases but I hope they’ll want to
Princelings on Smashwords
I had a very minor difficulty publishing Princelings on smashwords.com and that was getting the format of the chapter illustrations right. They kept trying to insert themselves within the Chapter title. Once I’d solved that (by reading the style guide