Michael L.F. Slavin's Blog
February 25, 2020
Kill Crime on Sale 99 cents
Bookbub SALE from $4.99 down to $.99 for a couple of days. Award-winning vigilante thriller-Kill Crime on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Crime-Nov...
Buy now and leave a review on Goodreads and Amazon, please.
Thank you,
Mike Slavin
PS: If you like it tell your friends too.
https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Crime-Nov...
Buy now and leave a review on Goodreads and Amazon, please.
Thank you,
Mike Slavin
PS: If you like it tell your friends too.
December 11, 2019
Kill Crime is on Amazon
Kill Crime has been released and is getting great reviews. At the time of this writing, it has 54 reviews and gets a few more every week.
One review:
"Hooked me from the beginning with the author's engaging talent for descriptive details. He did not disappoint in this area when it came to describing Case speeding down a Texas highway to stop a pedophile. Um, that happens in the first chapter. That's what reeled me in, Jeff made me stay. Excellent read, clever author, book within a book. Read this if you enjoy Patterson, Baldacci or Childs. hope you might get your own copy and write me a review."
My first goal is 100 reviews, but the real goal is 1,000 (no easy feat).
Have a great day.
Mike
One review:
"Hooked me from the beginning with the author's engaging talent for descriptive details. He did not disappoint in this area when it came to describing Case speeding down a Texas highway to stop a pedophile. Um, that happens in the first chapter. That's what reeled me in, Jeff made me stay. Excellent read, clever author, book within a book. Read this if you enjoy Patterson, Baldacci or Childs. hope you might get your own copy and write me a review."
My first goal is 100 reviews, but the real goal is 1,000 (no easy feat).
Have a great day.
Mike
September 10, 2019
Thriller ARC Readers Wanted
Kill Crime will be out 15 Nov, but looking for ARC readers now for an honest review on Goodreads (and Amazon when it's out), and anywhere else you'd like to post it.
Just trying to build buzz.
I will need your email to send you an ARC copy.
Thank you,
Mike
Just trying to build buzz.
I will need your email to send you an ARC copy.
Thank you,
Mike
September 7, 2019
Honest Marketing/Building Buzz
Reviews, reviews, reviews...get as many as you can, that is the big strategy for everyone. So I am trying. I have my short story out, Life-Changing Money and I plan to start sending Advanced Readers Copies of Kill Crime to librarians, book blog reviews, and established reviewers. (If you want to And I guess to everyone I can.
Do I send them to people I know will buy because they know me? I have had mixed emotions, but I think I do. Get the reviews. I know that Goodreads reviews are very important.
I have found book funnel is great to get people to sign up on my list for the free Life-Changing Money. The big question is will they convert to sales and reviews. Don't know yet.
Stay tuned.
Mike
Do I send them to people I know will buy because they know me? I have had mixed emotions, but I think I do. Get the reviews. I know that Goodreads reviews are very important.
I have found book funnel is great to get people to sign up on my list for the free Life-Changing Money. The big question is will they convert to sales and reviews. Don't know yet.
Stay tuned.
Mike
August 20, 2019
Life-Changing Money
The short story is done and published. 13,200 words, Life-Changing Money. It's on Amazon and also a free giveaway on my website www.mikeslavinauthor.com
Please read it and give me a review on Goodreads and Amazon. But the real start is Kill Crime in final editing now and to be released 15 November. If you would like to be an ARC reader email me.
Please read it and give me a review on Goodreads and Amazon. But the real start is Kill Crime in final editing now and to be released 15 November. If you would like to be an ARC reader email me.
February 1, 2019
Prequel Novel and Short Story
I am over 10,000 words on my short story prequel, but I see an entire novel forming.
It takes place as Case is getting out of the Army and interviewing for a job in New York, four years before Book 1, Kill Crime takes place.
If I do develop this into a full novel, it will be Book 4. I have Book 1 almost ready to publish, Book 2 is being edited and Book 3 is started. Can you have the 4th book in a series be a prequel, then pick back up in the storyline with Book 5? I'm not sure how that would be accepted.
So I may keep this storyline for my free short story and really shorten it up or maybe a completely different story.
Stay tuned.
It takes place as Case is getting out of the Army and interviewing for a job in New York, four years before Book 1, Kill Crime takes place.
If I do develop this into a full novel, it will be Book 4. I have Book 1 almost ready to publish, Book 2 is being edited and Book 3 is started. Can you have the 4th book in a series be a prequel, then pick back up in the storyline with Book 5? I'm not sure how that would be accepted.
So I may keep this storyline for my free short story and really shorten it up or maybe a completely different story.
Stay tuned.
January 26, 2019
Writing My Short Story Giveaway
I started a few days writing an original short story for my Crime/Thriller series with Jeff Case. It has 7,954 words, but it isn't even done yet and it hasn't been edited so it will change. I hope to finish up with about 8,000-10,000 words. It will be a free giveaway to sign up on my website www.mikeslavinauthor.com Right now an early version of the opening of Kill Crime is there, but the book has changed (got better).
Also close to getting my first Crime/Thriller published, Kill Crime-final edits and working on a cover with a designer now.
As I write I read as much as I can to try and improve my new craft. Read my reviews, people seem to like them. Love for you to follow me too.
More to come. Love to hear from you and any questions you might have.
Also close to getting my first Crime/Thriller published, Kill Crime-final edits and working on a cover with a designer now.
As I write I read as much as I can to try and improve my new craft. Read my reviews, people seem to like them. Love for you to follow me too.
More to come. Love to hear from you and any questions you might have.
