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June 6, 2013
Story Cartel: Get Hollywood Ass. & Win vouchers!
Thanks to the new venture Story Cartel you can get my novel Hollywood Ass. for free in exchange for a review and you’re actually also in the draw for three Amazon gift cards of $10 each. Register for your free copy of Hollywood Ass.
It’s nice to see new ideas like Story Cartel trying to make it easier for independent authors to get reviews and get their books out to a wider audience.
June 1, 2013
EVERYDAY PSYCHOPATHS
A collection of short stories that will both frighten you and make you laugh out loud. Warning: reading these three stories can make you sound like a crazy person. Kind of like an Everyday Psychopath…
In Everyday Psychopaths you find three stories, all three of them containing an everyday psychopath of some kind. The first one is close to a horror story with a dose of dark humor, the short second one is more literary but scary in its own right, and the third one is all dark comedy. Included in this collection is also two samples of my novels, The Wake-Up Call and Hollywood Ass. I hope you like them enough to consider checking them out in full.
The Stories in Everyday Psychopaths
A Killer Date
30 minutes into the date, Sheila thinks there’s magic in the air between her and Terry. She can hardly believe her luck to have met a man who seems to have everything. She wants to pinch her arm and ask herself if it’s too good to be true, but if she did the answer would be: Yes, it is too good to be true, because the truth is actually horrifying…
The Development Talk
Jasper is in for his yearly development talk and he’s feeling very uncomfortable about it. He usually doesn’t like meetings and his manager, Stephen, is kind of creepy. Little does he know how creepy…
The Worst/Best Day of My Life
Sometimes one day is enough. One day can change your life from heaven to hell. Or vice versa. This is what happened to Joe in the craziest 24 hours of his life…
The Wake-Up Call (sample)
On the surface he has it all: the women, the career, and the Central Park view penthouse, but behind his well-groomed and chiseled facade he has nothing. At least this is what he’s about to realize. Find out how Jack gets his life-changing wake-up call in this fast-paced, heartfelt and funny novel about soul-searching, friendship, and love.
Hollywood Ass. (sample)
A Hollywood superstar suffers a mental collapse, her marriage is falling apart, her career is on the ropes and the only one keeping it all together is her loyal assistant and friend, Darryl. Problem is, he’s kind of in love with her. Soon he finds himself drawn into a story that is much like the movies his employer stars in. But in real life the answers aren’t in the script…
May 31, 2013
THE WAKE-UP CALL
You either love him or hate him. No matter if you think he’s an asshole or just a nice guy in a heap of trouble, Jack Reynolds will stir your feelings. Do like 40 000 readers and enjoy his story…
You can buy The Wake-Up Call (print) at The Book Depository or Amazon US and UK Or why not as an e-book? Amazon US, UK, FR, IT, DE, ES.
Book description:
On the surface he has it all: the women, the career, and the Central Park view penthouse, but behind his well-groomed and chiseled facade he has nothing.
At least this is what he’s about to realize.
At age 35, alpha-male Jack Reynolds’ workaholic, womanizing and self-centered behavior is catching up with him both physically and mentally. After a series of grave romantic mistakes, he tries to get away from it all by boarding a plane to Cancun, Mexico.
But Jack soon realizes he can’t really run away from anything…
…especially not himself.
Find out how Jack gets his life-changing wake-up call in this fast-paced, heartfelt and funny novel about soul-searching, friendship, and love.
Readers response to The Wake-Up Call…
“A contemporary Don Draper!”
“A riveting page-turner.”
“Brilliant fun for small money.”
“If you don’t smile to this book, you probably never smile anyway.”
“Like a male Bridget Jones in the voice of Marian Keyes.”
“Good style, great flow! Can’t remember that a book entertained me this much.”
Gritty, realistic and a damn good read!”
“The Wake-Up Call really has it all – you laugh, you’re moved and most of all you’re entertained.”
The Wake-Up Call reached the semi-finals in The Kindle Book Review’s Best Indie Books of 2012.
The Wake-Up Call
THE WAKE-UP CALL: You either love him or hate him. No matter if you think he’s an asshole or just a nice guy in a heap of trouble, Jack Reynolds will stir your feelings. Do like 40 000 readers and enjoy his story…
You can buy The Wake-Up Call (print) at The Book Depository or Amazon US and UK Or why not as an e-book? Amazon US, UK, FR, IT, DE, ES or Kobo or Scribd
Book description:
On the surface he has it all: the women, the career, and the Central Park view penthouse, but behind his well-groomed and chiseled facade he has nothing.
At least this is what he’s about to realize.
At age 35, alpha-male Jack Reynolds’ workaholic, womanizing and self-centered behavior is catching up with him both physically and mentally. After a series of grave romantic mistakes, he tries to get away from it all by boarding a plane to Cancun, Mexico.
But Jack soon realizes he can’t really run away from anything…
…especially not himself.
Find out how Jack gets his life-changing wake-up call in this fast-paced, heartfelt and funny novel about soul-searching, friendship, and love.
Readers response to The Wake-Up Call…
“A contemporary Don Draper!”
“A riveting page-turner.”
“Brilliant fun for small money.”
“If you don’t smile to this book, you probably never smile anyway.”
“Like a male Bridget Jones in the voice of Marian Keyes.”
“Good style, great flow! Can’t remember that a book entertained me this much.”
Gritty, realistic and a damn good read!”
“The Wake-Up Call really has it all – you laugh, you’re moved and most of all you’re entertained.”
The Wake-Up Call reached the semi-finals in The Kindle Book Review’s Best Indie Books of 2012.
May 30, 2013
Starbucks Chalkboard Art
Pretty amazing chalkboard art that designer Jaymie McAmmond has created for coffee chain Starbucks.
See more work at Design Taxi
Thanks to Mario Borg for the find.
May 28, 2013
John Butler: Ocean – Free song
Found this fantastic song downloadable for free on John Butler’s website. Best work soundtrack I’ve ever heard.
Download Ocean (2012) by John Butler for free here.
May 13, 2013
My books on Bookbuzzr
I’m trying out loads of different marketing tools and ideas for my books The Wake-Up Call and Hollywood Ass. The latest one is Bookbuzzr. I’ll run a giveaway competition for The Wake-Up Call there from 15-16th May.
The Wake-Up Call
Hollywood Ass.
May 10, 2013
Sweden: what the fuck happened
It’s a strange headline I know. But it’s there simply because that “Sweden What the fuck happened” is the entry page for many of my visitors to this blog although it only contains the now almost legendary image of Stellan Skarsgård as a viking and some nightclub kids with 80s hairstyle, androgyne faces and lots of bronzer in their faces.
But it seems to me that Sweden has a bigger issue than the strange appearance of some of the males or the need to add a bronzer to acquire a tan.
To me, and this is of course my subjective, personal opinion as an emigrant, Sweden has become a country in large part obsessed with buying stuff and obeying rules. And by rules I don’t only mean laws, but all kinds of rules – most noticeably social ones. This has resulted in people being afraid to speak their minds and instead talk about nothing but practical stuff like which phone subscription you should have or which LED TV has the best value for money.
Feelings and thoughts around things that really matters, are left unspoken and unattended. They’re better dealt with alone it seems like.
This reservedness creates a society on standby and as a Swede it’s hurting me to see and experience it. You can blame it on the weather maybe, it can’t be easy to experience grey skies and darkness for 70% of the year, but then you look over to Canada or even Norway with a similar climate and where people seem less prone to have a stick up their butt and more often a smile on their face.
Sweden and Swedes: Cheer up and Chin up! (Fanastic song by Ryan Adams).
May 7, 2013
Comino tennis weekend update
We had a great weekend in Comino, lots of tennis, lots of sun, and a very relaxing mini-vacation.
The island is certainly both peaceful and beautiful and Aiden experienced a little Summer crush with a girl in the tennis camp.
May 1, 2013
Comino tennis weekend
Lots of things going on right now. Lenah’s father just had a golfing gang over who left yesterday, my parents and uncle are here now, we have been going to loads of dinners and events, Lenah is busy with new work stuff and her blog and besides loads of projects at work, I’m trying to write a collection of short stories (initially called Six Strings). Tomorrow there’s a wine tasting and on Saturday we’re taking the boat to Comino for a tennis weekend.
Aiden is playing one tournament and I’m playing the other. It’s mostly a kids focused trip but will be fun. I borrowed the pics below from the sister Island of Comino from Lenah’s blog.
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