My Kindle Books Now On Amazon UK

I have just found out that my Kindle books are now available on Amazon UK.

Sendings and The Worst of All Possible Places are priced at 75p each.

Goblin Mire is £3.01, but I have no control over the pricing for this.

Filthy Creations 6 - Sendings Serialisation Part 1

I just received my contributor's copy of Filthy Creations 6 through the post this morning from Rog Pile, its editor and publisher, and what a superb looking publication it is! It looks much better than I expected and I am pleased to have my novel Sendings serialised in it.

Other contributors include Craig Herbertson (with a serialisation of his novel The Death Tableau), Charles Black (who really should put more of his own stories in the Black Books of Horror), D. F. Lewis, Stephen Bacon, Robert Mammone, Franklin Marsh, Colin Leslie, James Stanger, and Penni McClaren Walker, with illustrations by Rog Pile. With a line up like that I am looking forward to reading the magazine.

If you are interested in buying copies email Rog Pile at rogpile (at) hotmail (dot) co (dot) uk or click on this.

Sendings - Price Reduction on Amazon

I have succeeded in reducing its price on Amazon again to $0.99 (plus VAT).

Sendings

Sendings on Amazon - Price Reduction

I have reduced the price for Sendings on Amazon down a dollar to $1.99, in line with its price on FifoBooks. I may reduce this even further, if the system will allow me, to $0.99, just to help with sales, since I am not interested in making money off it.

Anyway, I'll see how this improves the number of downloads. So far there has just been one.

E-Books - An Update

I've left this update a week since my last as it really has gone a bit flat regarding downloads from FifoBooks. The sales so far are:

The Worst of All Possible Places 19 downloads
Their Own Mad Demons 19 downloads
Sendings has increased by 2 to 5 downloads. It's nice to see that this has actually increased, albeit only slightly.

If anyone, who has read either The Worst of All Possible Places or Sendings, would like to put a review of them on Amazon I would be eternally grateful. The links to Amazon are:

The Worst of All Possible Places

Sendings

Into the Dark - novel

Now that I have finished what I think is the final rewrite on this novel I am left with the problem of what to do with it. Should I try sending it off to publishers, even though past experience has shown I can expect to wait up to 12 months or more for an answer, usually no thanks. Or go the quicker but, perhaps, ultimately less satisfying route of putting it online as another ebook, like Goblin Mire or Sendings - except I think this is a much better novel than either of them. It's a problem. The trouble with me is that I would much rather get on with whatever else I get stuck into writing next than go around trying to market what I have already finished, especially when it is so frustrating - and can sometimes impair my ability to get on with writing new stuff. It would be great if I had an agent to do all that for me, but getting an agent these days is, from what I can gather, even more difficult than getting a publisher. I suppose there is no need to make a hasty decision, I have still to finish either George and Glenda or Lucilla. And do a final rewrite on The Return.
One of the worst things about trying to get stuff published are the long delays. I have had a collection of short stories, The Lurkers in the Abyss, in the pipeline with Midnight House for years now, yet that seems little nearer actualling getting published than ever. I have had interest expressed in a second collection of my stories from a British small press publisher - a very good one, too - but the final decision over that seems to have come to a halt and months have gone by since I last had any emails about it.
The funny thing is that for a good few years I have been increasingly more convinced that the only printed collections/novels of mine to appear will be postumous. Call this a stupid, illogical conviction if you like, but it's been there a while - and is growing in validity as time goes by. It happens, though, and to much greater writers than me. Take Lovecraft for example.
Oh well, that's that bit of depression off my chest. Onwards and upwards!

Sendings Serialised - Filthy Creations

Filthy Creations will be serialising Sendings from it's next issue, number 6, for those who prefer print versions.

E-Books - Another Update

I've left this update even longer than the last as it really does seem to have gone a bit flat regarding downloads from FifoBooks. The sales so far are:

The Worst of All Possible Places 19 downloads
Their Own Mad Demons 18 downloads
Sendings is the same as before at 3 downloads

If anyone who has read either The Worst of All Possible Places or Sendings would like to put a review of them on Amazon I would be eternally grateful. The links to Amazon are:

The Worst of All Possible Places

Sendings

E-Books - Update

I've left this a few days as it seems to have gone a bit flat regarding downloads from FifoBooks. The sales so far are:
The Worst of All Possible Places now 16 downloads
Their Own Mad Demons now 15 downloads
Sendings is the same as before at 3 downloads

If anyone who has read either The Worst of All Possible Places or Sendings would like to put a review of them on Amazon I would be eternally grateful. The links to Amazon are:

The Worst of All Possible Places

Sendings

E-Books - Update

Yet again, only small increases on two of the books I have on FifoBooks, only the free downloads:

The Worst of All Possible Places now has had 15

Their Own Mad Demons has had 13

Sendings still stands at 3

Hardly dramatic. It will be interesting to compare eventually with the figures I get from Amazon - if, that is, they are any better. At least, though, it costs me nothing.

E-Books - Update

Some small increases on two of the books I have on FifoBooks, though only the free downloads:

The Worst of All Possible Places now has had 14
Their Own Mad Demons has had 12
Sendings still stands at 3

Still, it's nice to see the first two gradually increasing. At least someone is interested.

I have no idea how things are on Amazon. I think I'll have to wait for them  to send me their report as and when.

E-Books - Update

A bit disappointing today. Only one change: one additional upload for The Worst of All Possible Places, that's all.

Going to watch The Plague of the Zombies to cheer me up. That should do the trick.

E-Books on Amazon

My two books uploaded to Amazon are now online.

The Worst of All Possible Places

Sendings

If anyone would like to put a review on Amazon for either of them, that would be great. (Hopefully)

My earlier fantasy novel, Goblin Mire, is also there.

E-Books - Update

Since yesterday:

The Worst of All Possible Places from 11 to 12 uploads
Their Own Mad Demons from 3 to 6 uploads
Sendings remains at 2 uploads, no change

I did download The Worst of All Possible Places and Sendings to Amazon last night but they haven't gone online yet. Possibly another day to wait till that happens. It will be interesting to see how the two markets compare, bearing in mind how much bigger Amazon is, though of course The Worst of All Possible Places won't be a free upload there, but £0.99. Will that make a difference?

E-Books - Further Update

After reading some of the comments on the Shocklines thread on this issue I decided to have a go at uploading a couple of items onto Amazon. The process is quite different to FifoBooks and I had a few problems to start with. But I soon sorted them out and managed it. There's a review period of 48 hours before new items appear on Amazon. 

I uploaded Sendings. I had to price this at $2.99. I couldn't price it lower than this. Likewise, I couldn't upload The Worst of All Possible Places as free, so that's $0.99, the cheapest I could set it for. 
Anyway, that's something else for me to keep an eye on now. It could be a good comparison with the earlier uploads.

The Worst of All Possible Places - novella

I've managed, not only to put this on FifoBooks as a free download, but changed the cover for Sendings too! Not a bad day's toil.

Sendings and The Worst of All Possible Places

I have put The Worst of All Possible Places on as a free download. As I mentioned earlier, the theory is that, if anyone reads and like this enough, they'll possibly go on and download Sendings for $1.99. Well, that's the theory anyway!

And here's a widget to take anyone interested direct to FifoBooks:

Sendings

Here's a copy of an alternative cover I was working on: 

I did consider changing it for the one I used, but it doesn't look as if I can. Shame.  I think...

Sendings

FifoBooks have emailed me with advice to:

Tell your friends on Facebook

Post a tweet on Twitter

Both should be interesting experiences as I've never used either. My wife has a Facebook account, and even though she rarely uses it I suppose I could get some advice off her, but as for Twitter?  Still, it is the 21st Century and, if I'm prepared to take the plunge with this e-book, I suppose I may as well go all the way. After all, what's to lose?

Apart from valuable time perhaps better spent writing.

Ahem!

I'm still working on Lucilla, which I'm finding much more fascinating for me than anything I've previously written at this length. I've also got to find time to take another look at the last novel I managed to complete, The Return, and make whatever changes it needs before submitting it somewhere. I like this novel, though it is dark - perhaps one of the bleakest stories I have ever written, apart from The Worst of All Possible Places in Houses on the Borderland. I don't suppose I could get much bleaker than that. But they're horror stories, and you don't get many rays of sunshine in them.

Anyway, I'll be taking a look at Twitter some time today, though the name doesn't particularly appeal to me. Perhaps it's the "twit" part.

Sendings

I have managed to put Sendings for sale on FifoBooks, complete with a cover. It will be interesting to see how this does. Link

Many thanks, Shaun, for putting me on to the software I needed to download to dabble with the photograph and put some writing on it. It's not a particularly gripping cover, I suppose, but I have seen worse (check out the cover someone made for Goblin Mire). It's a photo of one of a couple of semi-derelict properties we bought in Bulgaria for a song a few years ago.The house beyond the gate - or, at least, the front of it - has gone now, stolen by gypsies. Or so we were told by a local pig farmer, George, a Bulgarian. Though I wouldn't be surprised if some of his pigs hadn't had some improvements to their homes! Anyway, it was no great loss, since the house was tumbling down, even though it was lived in up until the time we bought it!

Sendings - update

Spent some time last night converting the text of Sendings so that I can eventually post it on FifoBooks as an ebook. I need to work on the cover next. Unfortunately, all the software I have that could do this for me is years old and won't work on Windows XP Professional. I have a suitable photograph but not the means to put the title lettering on it. Annoying. It looks as if I'll have to spend money on getting some suitable software, unless I can find a free download that will do the job for me. Which is what I'll look for first. After all, I don't exactly need anything particularly sophisticated for the job.