Andersen Prunty's Blog, page 22
May 28, 2011
Things, Free Books, Cheap Books
Bizarro Central has received a new burst of energy. You should check it out.
As part of the relaunch, they're offering free digicopies of Bradley Sands' Rico Slade Will Fucking Kill You and Cameron Pierce's Abortion Arcade.
Also, if you have a Kindle or possess the manual and visual dexterity to download the Kindle app for one of your electronic devices, here is a moderately self-serving list of really cheap titles for it:
Fuckness by me
The Sorrow King by me
The Sex Beast of Scurvy Island by me
A Life On Fire by Chris Bowsman
The Brothers Crunk by William Pauley III
Muscle Memory by Steve Lowe
The Egg Said Nothing by Caris O'Malley
Suicide Girls in the Afterlife by Gina Ranalli
Mother Puncher by Gina Ranalli
Wall of Kiss by Gina Ranalli
As part of the relaunch, they're offering free digicopies of Bradley Sands' Rico Slade Will Fucking Kill You and Cameron Pierce's Abortion Arcade.
Also, if you have a Kindle or possess the manual and visual dexterity to download the Kindle app for one of your electronic devices, here is a moderately self-serving list of really cheap titles for it:
Fuckness by me
The Sorrow King by me
The Sex Beast of Scurvy Island by me
A Life On Fire by Chris Bowsman
The Brothers Crunk by William Pauley III
Muscle Memory by Steve Lowe
The Egg Said Nothing by Caris O'Malley
Suicide Girls in the Afterlife by Gina Ranalli
Mother Puncher by Gina Ranalli
Wall of Kiss by Gina Ranalli
May 14, 2011
Mo*Con
I'll be at Mo*Con May 20-22. Anyone else going?
Also, the latest Grindhouse Press book is a first time novel by Chris Bowsman called A Life On Fire. My longtime cover designer, Brandon Duncan, did a book trailer for it. You can order the book on Amazon and as a cheap Kindle download.
Also, the latest Grindhouse Press book is a first time novel by Chris Bowsman called A Life On Fire. My longtime cover designer, Brandon Duncan, did a book trailer for it. You can order the book on Amazon and as a cheap Kindle download.
April 17, 2011
Hiatus
Fill the Grand Canyon and Live Forever is now on indefinite hiatus...
April 10, 2011
April 7, 2011
Cheap Sex Beasts, Fuckness, and Sorrow Kings
I was going to design a book cover for "The Sex Beast of Scurvy Island" as an April Fool's joke and post the cover. My self-designed covers are universally not good. Inspired by all the terrible Photoshoppped covers on "paranormal romance" and "romantic suspense" titles available for the Kindle and those books' really high sales rankings, I decided it would be an even bigger joke to actually upload the thing to Amazon. So HERE IT IS. I'm not sure how long it will be there. The story originally appeared in the first Magazine of Bizarro Fiction so, if you own that, you can probably hold on to your 99 cents.
When I originally announced The Sorrow King some fifty years ago it was for an expensive limited edition hardcover. Naturally, because most people are broke, they balked at the price. Now it's available for 99 cents on the Kindle. It doesn't get much cheaper than that. It's also available as a paperback for around 12.95.
Also, Fuckness, a full-length novel I wrote a while ago, is available on Kindle for only 99 cents. This might also be a temporary thing. I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing with it yet.
And if you haven't been following my serialized web novel, FILL THE GRAND CANYON AND LIVE FOREVER, you should! I've been updating it pretty regular on Monday mornings. I have the installments ready for the next 2 weeks and then it might go on a brief hiatus.
When I originally announced The Sorrow King some fifty years ago it was for an expensive limited edition hardcover. Naturally, because most people are broke, they balked at the price. Now it's available for 99 cents on the Kindle. It doesn't get much cheaper than that. It's also available as a paperback for around 12.95.
Also, Fuckness, a full-length novel I wrote a while ago, is available on Kindle for only 99 cents. This might also be a temporary thing. I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing with it yet.
And if you haven't been following my serialized web novel, FILL THE GRAND CANYON AND LIVE FOREVER, you should! I've been updating it pretty regular on Monday mornings. I have the installments ready for the next 2 weeks and then it might go on a brief hiatus.
March 26, 2011
March 24, 2011
Greg Hall Interviewing Joe Lansdale
At last year's Horrorfind, Greg Hall had a chance to sit down and interview horror/suspense legend Joe R. Lansdale and turn The Funky Werepig into a visual show. Hat's off to Greg. He had me on the internet radio version of his show a couple of times and giving a relatively new author the same chance to be on the same show as people who have been around a lot longer--like Peter Straub, Thomas F. Monteleone, and Brian Keene--shows amazing support that a lot of writers don't get. Greg's also a writer. If you get the chance, check out his debut novel, At the End of Church Street. Also, if you haven't read any Lansdale and you're interested in bizarre horror, I'd recommend The Complete Drive-in.
Here's the first clip of their interview. There are 3 altogether. Enjoy!
Here's the first clip of their interview. There are 3 altogether. Enjoy!
March 23, 2011
Fill the Grand Canyon Installment 5 and 6
Installments 5 and 6 of Fill the Grand Canyon and Live Forever are now live! Normally it updates on Mondays but I goofed and uploaded Installment 6 on some random day so I decided to go ahead and upload Installment 5, too, (so it makes a little more sense). If you're one of the people who read this in its original incarnation back in November, these would be the first ones you haven't read.
March 20, 2011
Installment 4, Fuckness, Chuck Palahniuk, and Abject Failure
Installment 4 of Fill the Grand Canyon and Live Forever is now live! We are still at 10 followers (yikes!) and about 218 page views. If you're wondering what that means, it means not many people are reading it.
Today I tried to give away 20 copies of Fuckness on Facebook and only managed to give away 9. That's terrible. I'm in it for 20 so if you still want to leave your email address in the comments, you're welcome to do so. I'm sure there won't be any great rush.
My novel Morning is Dead, through some inexplicable fluke, has been linked with Chuck Palahniuk's forthcoming book, Damned, on Amazon. I've heard this has worked wonders for more obscure authors. It's been linked to it for a few weeks (ever since finding out about it, I've been obsessively checking it). The Kindle version of Morning is Dead has sold 1 copy this month at 2.99 and the paperback hasn't really sold any more than usual (which is about 1 copy a month). I only offer these statistics because of so many authors saying they have great successes with the Kindle and self-publishing and all that and, because I like to make people feel bad, I just wanted to show that it isn't all roses. And then the obvious argument is that I'm just being whiny and, "But you just don't try to sell yourself like those people do. You just don't have the exposure!" Well, there really isn't much more exposure than having your book linked to Chuck P.'s. That essentially means a ton of people are looking at Morning is Dead and opting not to buy it.
So, anyway, I've been doing this what feels like non-stop for three years. I don't know if I'm trying too hard or not trying hard enough. I want to tell myself that I'm just not writing what people want to read and then I look at a lot of books from self-published small press authors on Amazon that are edited terribly and have godawful covers and outsell mine 2000 to 1, easily, and I think, no, it's probably just me.
But I know it's not just me. There are tons of great writers out there who don't sell shit.
Why?
Who knows. Seriously, who the fuck knows. Since being published 3 years ago, I have focused on sales a lot. But I'm not doing it anymore. I'm writing. If my books sell really well, that's great, I can quit my day job and put money in the bank since I already have everything else I want. If not, well, that's okay too. I'll keep writing. I'll find publishers to publish my books or I'll do it myself. When you're dealing in nickels and dimes, it doesn't make a fuck of a lot of difference.
Thanks for letting me vent! I'll probably do it again in a couple of years or so.
Today I tried to give away 20 copies of Fuckness on Facebook and only managed to give away 9. That's terrible. I'm in it for 20 so if you still want to leave your email address in the comments, you're welcome to do so. I'm sure there won't be any great rush.
My novel Morning is Dead, through some inexplicable fluke, has been linked with Chuck Palahniuk's forthcoming book, Damned, on Amazon. I've heard this has worked wonders for more obscure authors. It's been linked to it for a few weeks (ever since finding out about it, I've been obsessively checking it). The Kindle version of Morning is Dead has sold 1 copy this month at 2.99 and the paperback hasn't really sold any more than usual (which is about 1 copy a month). I only offer these statistics because of so many authors saying they have great successes with the Kindle and self-publishing and all that and, because I like to make people feel bad, I just wanted to show that it isn't all roses. And then the obvious argument is that I'm just being whiny and, "But you just don't try to sell yourself like those people do. You just don't have the exposure!" Well, there really isn't much more exposure than having your book linked to Chuck P.'s. That essentially means a ton of people are looking at Morning is Dead and opting not to buy it.
So, anyway, I've been doing this what feels like non-stop for three years. I don't know if I'm trying too hard or not trying hard enough. I want to tell myself that I'm just not writing what people want to read and then I look at a lot of books from self-published small press authors on Amazon that are edited terribly and have godawful covers and outsell mine 2000 to 1, easily, and I think, no, it's probably just me.
But I know it's not just me. There are tons of great writers out there who don't sell shit.
Why?
Who knows. Seriously, who the fuck knows. Since being published 3 years ago, I have focused on sales a lot. But I'm not doing it anymore. I'm writing. If my books sell really well, that's great, I can quit my day job and put money in the bank since I already have everything else I want. If not, well, that's okay too. I'll keep writing. I'll find publishers to publish my books or I'll do it myself. When you're dealing in nickels and dimes, it doesn't make a fuck of a lot of difference.
Thanks for letting me vent! I'll probably do it again in a couple of years or so.
March 16, 2011
Harmony Korine and Die Antwoord (Fuckness)
Harmony Korine + Die Antwoord = We Should All Watch This Together Right Now!
I just added fuckness to the blog title because apparently 17 times as many people click on something with the word "fuck" in the title. Also, if you want to download the digital version for 99 cents, I will not stop you.
I just added fuckness to the blog title because apparently 17 times as many people click on something with the word "fuck" in the title. Also, if you want to download the digital version for 99 cents, I will not stop you.
