Hi Internet,
The discount of Path to Together to 99c did not happen as scheduled. There appears to have been a small glitch in the system and Amazon are working on it right now. I am hoping the discount will appear as promised in the next day or two.
J.T.
Monday 23 February 2015
Friday 20 February 2015
Path to Together Discounted & Free Book Update
Hi Internet,
The latest installment of "The New Breed Chronicles" launched yesterday. To give everyone a chance to catch up I am running a promotion on the collection of the first three episodes, "The Path to Together". For 5 days, starting Saturday the 21st of February, "The Path to Together" will be 99c on Amazon.
For those who care, "The New Breed Chronicles" is an episodic series. A I mentioned in a previous post it is something along the lines of a serialized novel. I have not been releasing content for the series as frequently as I originally intended but I plan on remedying that situation. The idea is the first novel will be concluded in about 8-12 episodes, at which point I will collect them together into a single issue.
As for the free book experiment with "Breed", things have actually performed better than I expected. After the free book offer I really thought that I wouldn't see another download. The result has actually been quite different. Sales, though extremely modest by comparative standards, are the best I have ever had for a title. They have actually been multiple times better than any other title I have ever had. The other interesting effect is that I am now seeing sales, albeit very small numbers of sales, of my other titles. It's almost as if, and I say this very tentatively, readers are enjoying Breed and are then going looking for more stories from this poor hopeless scheister.
Anyway internet, that is all because the day-job beckons,
J.T.
The latest installment of "The New Breed Chronicles" launched yesterday. To give everyone a chance to catch up I am running a promotion on the collection of the first three episodes, "The Path to Together". For 5 days, starting Saturday the 21st of February, "The Path to Together" will be 99c on Amazon.
For those who care, "The New Breed Chronicles" is an episodic series. A I mentioned in a previous post it is something along the lines of a serialized novel. I have not been releasing content for the series as frequently as I originally intended but I plan on remedying that situation. The idea is the first novel will be concluded in about 8-12 episodes, at which point I will collect them together into a single issue.
As for the free book experiment with "Breed", things have actually performed better than I expected. After the free book offer I really thought that I wouldn't see another download. The result has actually been quite different. Sales, though extremely modest by comparative standards, are the best I have ever had for a title. They have actually been multiple times better than any other title I have ever had. The other interesting effect is that I am now seeing sales, albeit very small numbers of sales, of my other titles. It's almost as if, and I say this very tentatively, readers are enjoying Breed and are then going looking for more stories from this poor hopeless scheister.
Anyway internet, that is all because the day-job beckons,
J.T.
Friday 6 February 2015
The New Breed Chronicles Update
Hi Internet,
Very very quick post. I have noticed a few sales of The New Breed Chronicles recently. For those who don't know, which is basically the entirety of the Internet, the New Breed Chronicles are episodic stories that follow on from each other. It is kind of like a serialized novel, except it is being serialized as it is being written. The idea was to release a new episode every month. This would have resulted in a decent novel's worth of material annually. Then reality happened I have been dripping out the installments at an anemic rate.
Working on Breed distracted me from Episode 4, which is now very overdue. If anyone is actually reading the first three episodes, and cares about where things might be going for Ardia and Homer, then Episode 4 is on the way and should be along in the next couple of weeks. I say the next couple of weeks but what I really mean is as soon as I can get it put together... that should be sometime between next week and the end of time.
It will be titled "The Golem" and looks like it will be longer than any of the previous installments.
Very very quick post. I have noticed a few sales of The New Breed Chronicles recently. For those who don't know, which is basically the entirety of the Internet, the New Breed Chronicles are episodic stories that follow on from each other. It is kind of like a serialized novel, except it is being serialized as it is being written. The idea was to release a new episode every month. This would have resulted in a decent novel's worth of material annually. Then reality happened I have been dripping out the installments at an anemic rate.
Working on Breed distracted me from Episode 4, which is now very overdue. If anyone is actually reading the first three episodes, and cares about where things might be going for Ardia and Homer, then Episode 4 is on the way and should be along in the next couple of weeks. I say the next couple of weeks but what I really mean is as soon as I can get it put together... that should be sometime between next week and the end of time.
It will be titled "The Golem" and looks like it will be longer than any of the previous installments.
Thursday 5 February 2015
The Social Media Thing
Sorry Internet,
I forgot to say some stuff about social media.
I am not an old man but I live like one in a lot of ways and I simply don't exist on social media. I am trying to fix that a little bit. I noticed some people took the trouble to visit this blog and there were no posts at the time. I would like to apologize for that.
I now have a facebook page which is here. There is sweet nothing on it but I will try and fix that over next few days. It really would make my day if someone from the ether tried to attach themselves to it.
Anyone can email me at lomasneyjt@gmail.com
And this twitter thing is another story altogether. I have a twitter, which is @lomasneyjt, but I have no real idea about how to use it. Up until now twitter existed for me so I could see what Pittsburgh Steelers players were saying whenever there was a bit of drama like a firing or a painful loss and so on. Now I guess I had best see what all the fuss is actually about.
And with that I will bid you farewell for now sweet Internet, I shall return,
J.T.
I forgot to say some stuff about social media.
I am not an old man but I live like one in a lot of ways and I simply don't exist on social media. I am trying to fix that a little bit. I noticed some people took the trouble to visit this blog and there were no posts at the time. I would like to apologize for that.
I now have a facebook page which is here. There is sweet nothing on it but I will try and fix that over next few days. It really would make my day if someone from the ether tried to attach themselves to it.
Anyone can email me at lomasneyjt@gmail.com
And this twitter thing is another story altogether. I have a twitter, which is @lomasneyjt, but I have no real idea about how to use it. Up until now twitter existed for me so I could see what Pittsburgh Steelers players were saying whenever there was a bit of drama like a firing or a painful loss and so on. Now I guess I had best see what all the fuss is actually about.
And with that I will bid you farewell for now sweet Internet, I shall return,
J.T.
The Free Book Experiment
Dear Internet,
(I wish I had something cool to open with like King's "constant reader". Is that copyrighted?)
I published Breed last week and put the book on Amazon's Free Book Promotion for the maximum allowed five days. So far it has been an interesting little experiment even if it has produced some mixed feelings for me.
Over the course of the five days Breed was downloaded almost 500 times. I know these are not staggering numbers for a free book but I find it kind of daunting to think that 500 people out there might actually be reading Breed. The book reached the top page on Genetically Engineered Category and the third page of Horror.
The most interesting, and incredible part of the experiment, has been the feedback. I will tell the truth; I tried to give the book five stars myself. I was sort of priming the pump, if you will, in the same manner as a street performer drops a few coins in his hat himself to get the ball rolling. Amazon of course did away with my deception in short order. The next day I was checking the books page on Amazon.com and saw a five-star review. 'Nice one,' thinks me, 'they put it back. I got away with it.' Then I looked a little more closely and the bottom kind of fell out of my stomach. It wasn't my review. Someone had read the book and liked it. She hadn't just liked it, she really liked it!
Since then I have picked up a half dozen reviews, all but one of them are 5 star reviews. The only one that was not was a four star review and was still a very constructive commentary.
It's a very strange thing to actually know that other people have read this book. It's even stranger still that they haven't been outright disgusted by it. It almost boggles my mind that the book has been enjoyed. Seeing reviewers talk about characters, making them real in a mind other than my own, has been incredible. It has been oddly emotive as well. When I read the first five star review it took me on quite the emotional roller coaster.
I know the advice. Every one from Stephen King to J.A. Konrath will say not to read your critics. And I know the bad reviews are just around the corner (if I even get any more reviews). But I can't help it. We have to learn from our own mistakes and I guess I will keep reading reviews, and learning from them, until someone finally breaks my heart.
So that's that. This post has also been a sort of priming the pump experiment. Nobody reads this blog but if someone decides to pay a visit there should at least be something here for them to read. This social media stuff completely escapes me so I really don't know what I am doing writing to the Internet in general. Hi Internet!
With that I must get back to task at hand and make another story to put out there so I can once more go through the torturous highs and lows of obsessively tracking downloads and waiting for that inevitable awful review.
Bye for now Internet,
J.T.
(I wish I had something cool to open with like King's "constant reader". Is that copyrighted?)
I published Breed last week and put the book on Amazon's Free Book Promotion for the maximum allowed five days. So far it has been an interesting little experiment even if it has produced some mixed feelings for me.
Over the course of the five days Breed was downloaded almost 500 times. I know these are not staggering numbers for a free book but I find it kind of daunting to think that 500 people out there might actually be reading Breed. The book reached the top page on Genetically Engineered Category and the third page of Horror.
The most interesting, and incredible part of the experiment, has been the feedback. I will tell the truth; I tried to give the book five stars myself. I was sort of priming the pump, if you will, in the same manner as a street performer drops a few coins in his hat himself to get the ball rolling. Amazon of course did away with my deception in short order. The next day I was checking the books page on Amazon.com and saw a five-star review. 'Nice one,' thinks me, 'they put it back. I got away with it.' Then I looked a little more closely and the bottom kind of fell out of my stomach. It wasn't my review. Someone had read the book and liked it. She hadn't just liked it, she really liked it!
Since then I have picked up a half dozen reviews, all but one of them are 5 star reviews. The only one that was not was a four star review and was still a very constructive commentary.
It's a very strange thing to actually know that other people have read this book. It's even stranger still that they haven't been outright disgusted by it. It almost boggles my mind that the book has been enjoyed. Seeing reviewers talk about characters, making them real in a mind other than my own, has been incredible. It has been oddly emotive as well. When I read the first five star review it took me on quite the emotional roller coaster.
I know the advice. Every one from Stephen King to J.A. Konrath will say not to read your critics. And I know the bad reviews are just around the corner (if I even get any more reviews). But I can't help it. We have to learn from our own mistakes and I guess I will keep reading reviews, and learning from them, until someone finally breaks my heart.
So that's that. This post has also been a sort of priming the pump experiment. Nobody reads this blog but if someone decides to pay a visit there should at least be something here for them to read. This social media stuff completely escapes me so I really don't know what I am doing writing to the Internet in general. Hi Internet!
With that I must get back to task at hand and make another story to put out there so I can once more go through the torturous highs and lows of obsessively tracking downloads and waiting for that inevitable awful review.
Bye for now Internet,
J.T.
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