Now you know inflation is bad: it’s slopping onto Amazon, which can normally absorb stuff like that. The book cost increase is gonna happen a month from now, and I won’t lie: the per-book hit isn’t horrible. It’ll still be kind of painful in the aggregate, though, so if you were planning to buy my books — or someone else’s self-published books — now is the time to do that.
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05/15/2023 Snippet, GHOSTS ON AN ALIEN WIND.
The last bit of “write this scene later” has been written. The draft’s not actually done, but from here on out it’s more formatting and changing details as I go. I might get it done by the end of the week. Huzzah!
…well, we didn’t do anything horrible to anyone. But all of those pieties about respecting personal information that we quoted to Rubicon, back at the beginning? Of the five entities at that meeting: two were dead, one was in medical cold sleep, one was still recovering from the mental equivalent of a heart attack, and then there was me. If I was the functional one, we were nowhere near out of the woods, yet.
I’m not apologizing. We were right to be concerned about hidden cultists, and roughing up personnel records was a lot better than roughing up the personnel. I just wish — I just wish people had made better decisions, or at least not make poor ones where I had to see them.
One of the things that I did, once I was effectively in charge, was to pull Syah off everything else and have him handle the records searches. I worried that I was playing favorites, but Maki signed off on it right away. So did Nur, ironically. The sooner we cleared everybody, the faster we could go back to work. The quarantine was definitely starting to pinch us.
The problem was? We didn’t clear everybody.
Going to advertise the Tom Vargas books again.
FROZEN DREAMS, TINSEL RAIN, and TALES FROM THE FERMI RESOLUTION (Tom Vargas novella in that one), to be specific. Tom Vargas is my post-apocalyptic, fantasy pulp detective. He’s a lot of fun to write, and I have the next book of his (BANSHEE BEACH) on deck after I finish the new novel.
Anyway… three books, eleven bucks: it’s a damned good deal, frankly. Particularly in these uncertain financial times. People should buy them.
A flat-out request for help to boost my books.
I truly hate having to do this; but if you’re going to self-publish, you need to be your own advertiser and marketing person. So, here goes: I need help getting word about my books, my mailing list, and my Patreon out. If you are interested in helping with that, let me know (here, on Twitter, Facebook, whatever) and I will add your contact email to my list of people I know I can send announcements to and so forth. If you are not interested, don’t worry about it.
Thanks!
My first novel FROZEN DREAMS is now on Kindle 99 cent Super Sale!
FROZEN DREAMS may be the first post-apocalyptic high urban fantasy pulp detective novel you will read today! There’s a sequel (TINSEL RAIN), which dives right back into the world, and more are planned. The sale is only for a week, so buy now!
Join Shamus Tom Vargas as he Clears a murder Case in Cin City, tinsel capital of the magical kingdom of New California. It’s his job; in fact, you might say it’s his calling. Doesn’t help that he already has the worst possible confession from the worst possible suspect. Then again, when does it ever?
Action! Adventure! Elf! Orc! Magic! Bad jokes! And a cover that just won’t quit:
Continue reading My first novel FROZEN DREAMS is now on Kindle 99 cent Super Sale!Doing a 99 Cent Kindle Sale for FROZEN DREAMS!
It starts this Friday. I’m curious to see if there’ll be any synergistic effects from combining that with the (presumed) boost in visibility for FROZEN DREAMS, now that it has over fifty ratings*. It’s not that the algorithm is terrifying; it’s that Amazon doesn’t really explain how it works. Which I guess makes sense.
Anyway! Tell everybody the book goes on 99 cent Kindle sale on Friday!
Moe Lane
#commissionearned
*Don’t forget to review! There’s only twenty-one of those. For all I know, fifty actual reviews are the true critical threshold.
:rubbing the fiscal gouge in my side: Taxes are done. Buy my books!
Because ow.
Put something up on Substack.
I dunno what to call it. Not really fiction, not really commentary. I may be even the only one who finds it a little worrisome.
Tax season is an excellent time to buy my books!
I mean, it always is – but it’d be particularly excellent today, if you catch my meaning. The word ‘ouch’ comes to mind. If you’ve bought them all already, go buy somebody else’s book (and review them!), instead. I can’t be the only author out there that’s wincing right now.
My Fright Reads Author Talk!
Behold!