L. Lane Bailey's Blog, page 27
October 7, 2020
Novel Excerpts
I was just thinking… always dangerous…
Here are a collection of novel excerpts. I think all of the books are covered. In fact, I think I have whole stories covered from Who, What, When, Why? (Kindle link).
Thank you for sharing!
I’m seeing traffic bump up on my website, and it is because of all of my friends sharing the links and helping spur traffic. I REALLY appreciate it. Since I don’t have a marketing machine backing my books like the big guys, the best way I can spread the word is person to person.
And it’s working.
A few weeks ago I had a promotion for Planning Vengeance (Kindle edition) on Amazon. Through the shares and help from my friends, it was the highest number of downloads to date for the book...
October 5, 2020
Don’t Miss It!
You might have missed out on the promo discount for Planning Vengeance, but there is one coming up for Dig Two Graves at the end of this week (Oct. 9th, 2020).
Maybe you should take this opportunity to grab a Kindle copy of Planning Vengeance so that you can dive into Dig Two Graves as soon as the discount hits. The price for book II in the Dixon-Prince series will start at 99 cents on that Friday. It will creep up in price on Amazon’s schedule until it is back at $2.99 by the followi...
October 2, 2020
Upcoming Deal
Three things…
1 – I will be having a sale on Amazon for the Kindle version of Dig Two Graves. It will be a Kindle countdown Deal, so for the best discount, grab it early. Regular price is $2.99. It will start at 99 cents on Friday, October 9th. It will creep back up to full price by Friday, October 16th.
2 – I always announce sales or free book promos here before anywhere else. I’d love for you to subscribe and get first crack at any deals I offer, as well as previews of new books....
September 29, 2020
For my next trick…
As mentioned, I have three projects in the works. Oddly (for me, at least) I can’t seem to make headway on just one of them at a time. I’ll push on one and then hit a wall, but one of the others will open up. So I just rotate as needed.
On the first four books, Planning Vengeance, Dig Two Graves, You Don’t Know Jack and Who, What, When, Why? I mostly just wrote them front to back. Obviously there was a good bit of editing and so forth, but aside from the last one, they were written in o...
September 18, 2020
You have one more chance to get it FREE!
You have one more chance to grab your copy of Planning Vengeance for Kindle. I can’t do it again for a while… but you have your chance right now.
Planning Vengeance is my first novel. It is primarily a story about secrets. Secret crushes, secret lives and secret grudges. For many, the secrets stay hidden and everything is comfortable. But sometimes, those secrets bubble to the surface, and that’s when life can get dangerous.
Jack had a secret. He buried the secret so deep even h...
September 14, 2020
Two more novels in the works…
And the beginnings of a third.
Back when I was writing Who, What, When, Why? I wrote a story to wrap up the book. It was too long. Not quite a novel, but too long for the collection. I dropped it in another document, knowing I would come back to it later. I also knew that there was more to the story… maybe enough for a full novel.
To fill the space, I had another story in the works. But guess what…
It was also too long. And that was after trimming out a bunch of material. So ...
September 11, 2020
Grab a FREE Kindle eBook!
We’re in the midst of a re-launch of my first book, Planning Vengeance: Dixon-Prince Book 1. To celebrate the re-launch of the book, we are giving it away for FREE for just a few days, Sept. 11-13 on Amazon.
Here is a link directly to the book: Planning Vengeance on Amazon. I’d LOVE for you to give it a read and then write a review on Amazon, or even Goodreads (here is the link to the book’s profile on Goodreads).
Independent authors and those that self-publish rely on reviews… they ...
July 8, 2020
Striving for Accuracy
The stories are fiction but as a writer, I strive for accuracy. Nothing makes me happier (ok… that isn’t true… lots of things make me pretty happy) than someone who has a massive amount of experience in a particular discipline saying that my story felt authentic.
Getting the language right, keeping the characters in character and keeping the details from being mixed or muddled is hard work. And I don’t seek to write simple stories… there are a LOT of interlocking elements. Granted, this ...
July 6, 2020
Back in Kindle Unlimited!
I have set all of the books up in Kindle Unlimited again. If you are a member of KU, you can download and read them for free as long as they remain enrolled in the program. That’s right… FREE!
Kindle Unlimited is a cool program that allows you to read thousands of books that are enrolled… all for free. As an author, I get paid based on how many pages are read (once… if you read the books over and over, I only get credit the first time…). Right now, there is a deal for two months of KU for...
