Peg Herring's Blog - Posts Tagged "flint-mi"
Getting a Kindle for Christmas
If the gifts under your tree include a Kindle, or even if you already have one, this story is for you, because I'm giving away my book, GO HOME AND DIE, at the Kindle store from December 25-29th.
People sometimes ask why authors would do such a thing (and why Amazon would let them!). Here are my two reasons, one of which Amazon shares.
The big reason is exposure. If someone reads a book and likes it, the hope is they'll read more by that author making both Amazon and the author money. You might have noticed that a lot of freebie books are the first of a series. We clever authors get you hooked and then charge you for the next installment. Hey, all's fair in apparently everything these days.
The other reason I'm giving away GO HOME AND DIE (and my big one) is that it's a second edition. I didn't like the way it was done the first time, so I got the rights back and had it re-edited, re-formatted, and even re-covered. I'm very happy, and I felt I owed those who bought the original version a chance to see what it should have been like to begin with.
So what is GO HOME AND DIE about? It's a '60s era mystery set in Flint, Michigan. I have a fondness for the story because I lived in Flint in the late '60s, because Carrie is a lot like I was then--naive, and because John helped with the flashbacks to Vietnam.
If you have a Kindle, give it a try. (If you have a different e-reader, it will take a while, but it will eventually appear there, too.)
http://www.amazon.com/Go-Home-and-Die...
People sometimes ask why authors would do such a thing (and why Amazon would let them!). Here are my two reasons, one of which Amazon shares.
The big reason is exposure. If someone reads a book and likes it, the hope is they'll read more by that author making both Amazon and the author money. You might have noticed that a lot of freebie books are the first of a series. We clever authors get you hooked and then charge you for the next installment. Hey, all's fair in apparently everything these days.
The other reason I'm giving away GO HOME AND DIE (and my big one) is that it's a second edition. I didn't like the way it was done the first time, so I got the rights back and had it re-edited, re-formatted, and even re-covered. I'm very happy, and I felt I owed those who bought the original version a chance to see what it should have been like to begin with.
So what is GO HOME AND DIE about? It's a '60s era mystery set in Flint, Michigan. I have a fondness for the story because I lived in Flint in the late '60s, because Carrie is a lot like I was then--naive, and because John helped with the flashbacks to Vietnam.
If you have a Kindle, give it a try. (If you have a different e-reader, it will take a while, but it will eventually appear there, too.)
http://www.amazon.com/Go-Home-and-Die...
