Die Booth's Blog, page 14

How about we make a deal? Very special charity offer on my writing.

Just sent this month’s #365Lies payment to @mndassoc – ��7.67, which is wonderful because every penny counts, but come on guys, we can do better than that! Spread the word!

If you don’t want to buy from Lulu or even buy the book at all then how about this – if you donate just ��5 to The Motor Neurone Disease Association and then forward the receipt email to die.booth[at]gmail.com then I’ll email you a PDF of ‘365 Lies’ absolutely free – that way, you can donate directly to a good cause, you’re...

‘365 Lies’ – Happy Christmas, look what we’ve done!

Well, it’s been just over a month now since I released ‘365 Lies’ into the wild and I’m delighted to announce that in the first month of sales I’ve sold 48 copies and together we’ve raised ��76.46 for The Motor Neurone Disease Association (Registered Charity No:294354). Thank you so much to everyone who has helped towards this by buying a book and spreading the word – you are magic��and I appreciate it more than I can say.

Other really excellent news is that I received my first monthly Lulu pa...

Happy Thanksgiving Day (and one week 365 Lies anniversary!)

Well – firstly, happy Thanksgiving Day to our American friends, I hope that your day is delightful.

Secondly – I can’t believe it’s been a week already since 365 Lies launched. Thank you so much to everyone who has bought a copy already and to everyone who has helped to spread the word about this collection by Tweeting, Retweeting, Sharing – all that social good stuff; it is very much appreciated and you are all wonderful.

In the first week we’ve managed to sell 35 copies of 365 Lies, raising £...

365 Lies – where is your money going in support of MNDA?

Firstly – a huge thank you to everyone who bought my book on launch day yesterday, and to everyone who helped to spread the word about 365 Lies. In the first 24 hours I sold 27 copies (not bad for self published?) and from that we have made £45.04 profit that will be donated as soon as it’s paid into my Paypal.

Secondly – I’ve mentioned before that all profits from sales of 365 Lies are going to go to charity, but I wanted to do a bit of an explanation and breakdown of that, so that you know w...

LAUNCH DAY! 365 Lies available to buy online NOW

Launch day! (Virtual) balloons and (virtual) confetti!

I’m very pleased to announce that you can now buy a copy of my brand new single author collection ’365 Lies’ – one little story a day for a whole year. It’s available to buy online in both print and ebook formats. All profits will go to the MNDAand if you order your book today, for launch day 20th November 2014 only, you can get 30% off theprice of a print book (without the charity losing any profit), just use code FLASH30 at the Lulu chec...

All these launches! 365 Lies, Firewords issue 3, Revolution,

Just a little reminder to mark next Thursday 20th November in your diaries as that’s when my collection of flash fiction ‘365 Lies’ is launched. It’s a nice thick slab of nutty sugary spicy cross-genre delight and all profits (that’s £1.23 for each ebook and £1.67 for each print book) will be donated directly to the Motor Neurone Disease Association. It has pictures! And a gorgeous cover by the mega talented Earl Foolish! It’s the treat with no calories! You know you want this book in your li...

365 Lies – cover by Earl Foolish

You might remember from my recent post about my flash fictions appearing alongside the Earl Foolish A/W14 ‘Blodmagi’ collectionfeaturing a tooth inspired by the Spirit Houses cover, that there was further collaboration with Earl Foolish on the horizon?

Well, I’m stoked to announce that Earl Foolish has worked their magic on the book cover for my soon-to-be-released collection of flash fiction 365 Lies.

Look how beautiful it is! Doesn’t it make you just want to open the cover and see what’s insi...

Free download today only – Spirit Houses, a paranormal adventure

Break out the confetti and cake, Spirit Houses is officially one year old today! And what better way to celebrate than to offer the Spirit Houses ebook free to download here:

Download and read Spirit Houses for free on PDF
Download and read Spirit Houses for free on ePub

It’s very simple to log into Lulu and download your free copy – either on PDF (which is readable on virtually all ereaders) or ePub format. Be quick though, as this offer is only available during Saturday 13th September 2014.

If...

Spirit Houses will be free to download for one day only next week!

I can’t believe it’s been a whole year already – Spirit Houses celebrates its first birthday next week on Saturday 13th September, so in honour of the day it will be free to download from Lulu for the duration of the 13th. Mark it down in your diaries and I’ll post a reminder and download links next week.

Not sure if Spirit Houses is your thing? You can read the first chapter here or watch a book trailer here.

In the meantime, if you’re more into print and would like to grab yourself a nice ill...

Flashes of Spirit Houses and Blood Magic with Earl Foolish – pre-order now for discount!

Earlier on in the year I was delighted to get the chance to collaborate with talented upcoming designer Earl Foolish on their debut collection – Sinister Sirens S/S14. For each piece of jewellery they designed, I wrote a flash fiction to go along with the product description.

Now I’ve written another set of flashes for their A/W14 collection Blod Magi, which you can read now on the Earl Foolish website – and I defy you to resist ordering some amazing jewellery or a t-shirt while you’re there....