Live Freebie or Die!

It’s approaching three months since I decided to put all my ebooks into Amazon’s exclusive Kindle Unlimited program, but in all that time I never tested the waters of the promotional options they make available. Therefore, with the days counting down, I’ve decided to do just that.

Starting today, you can pick up my first weird western title End Trails absolutely free, and the offer will continue until Monday. On top of that, the follow-up novella Given Names will be discounted right through until a week from today.

So, if you enjoy the stories in the first book I hope you’ll grab a copy of the second while it’s going cheap – and if you have time to write a review as well, that would be doing me a real favour!

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UPDATE: This is what happens when you put the book no-one will buy on a freebie deal: it jumps to number one (in the super-niche “western horror” subgenre) overnight!

Of course, there’s a reason why it’s only at thirty-nine in the general free westerns category:

I fear that I and my book are simply not ripped enough to make the grade…

GIVEN NAMES

PUBLISHED!

Given Names, the second book in the End Trails series, is now available from both good and evil online retailers.

Amazon: US | CA | MX | BR | AUS | IN | JP

Amazon Europe: UK | FR | DE | ES | IT | NL

Apple | Barnes&Noble | Smashwords | Goodreads

Given Names is available at half price only through February – go to Smashwords and purchase with the code:

CZ57U

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Blurb

Travel the End Trails – paths into hidden places, taking you toward the unknown and from which return is far from certain. Tales of things not believed in from the comfort and safety of civilisation and only whispered about on the distant fringes of exploration, all waiting in the wilderness.

In Given Names, a Native American boy comes of age only to have the future he imagined snatched horribly away, leaving only doubt. No-one knows where the path through life will lead – but one thing is for sure: what we are at the end won’t be the same as who we were at the beginning…

This is another tale to be told around the camp-fire, something dark to unsettle the mind, before you settle down to sleep.

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Postscript:

I said it before, but forgot to mention above, that my cover image was taken by Flickr user David Boté Estrada, and the original can be seen here. In fact, I didn’t edit it in the slightest, that’s just exactly how cool a picture it was from the start! Many thanks to David for licensing his work through

Creative Commons

“helping cheapskate authors look good since 2001”

 

Snow amongst trees

It’s pretty cold in Spain right now, but before the summer takes Madrid in its merciless grip I hope to publish at least six short ebooks. The first, End Trails, appeared at the start of this month – and as of yesterday (but only for yesterday, most likely) it was in the top twenty most popular horror-western titles in Amazon!

In case this sounds exciting to you, please bear in mind that this appears to be the result of selling two copies.

Regardless, the second book will be out on February 9th. Called Given Names, it’s another weird western, but where the two stories in End Trails were overtly horror and science fiction, the weirdness in this one is more about perception and belief – but there’s still a strong dose of the horrific in it too. You can read the (non-horrific) opening here, and a increasingly portentous scene to follow here.

Here’s the cover and below is the blurb, and it’s available on pre-order now from Amazon (see bottom of the post). However, if you fancy getting a copy for free, sign up to my mailing list before the release date and it’ll be all yours.

Travel the End Trails – paths into hidden places, taking you toward the unknown and from which return is far from certain. Tales of things not believed from the comfort and safety of civilisation and only whispered of out on the distant fringes of exploration, all waiting in the wilderness.

In Given Names, a Native American boy comes of age only to have the future he imagined snatched horribly away, leaving only doubt. No-one knows to what destination the path through life will lead – but one thing is for sure: you won’t be the same person when you get there…

The End Trails are stories to be told around the camp-fire, dark things to unsettle the mind, before you settle down to sleep.

A final note: that image (great, isn’t it?) was taken by a Flickr user named David Boté Estrada, one of many people who make their work available to the world via Creative Commons licenses. It’s like looking out through the eyes of my protagonist just when he thinks his world can’t get any worse. Except he’s wrong.

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