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Undermountain FREE on Kobobooks

If you have a Kobo reader, a Nook, or any device/app that takes ePubs, you can grab a free copy of Undermountain from Kobobooks.com right now!

As of this writing, Undermountain is the #1 free ebook in the whole store.

 

 

 

Big Milestone: The Book is off to Beta Readers!!!

Getting the book (tentatively titled The Scion) in the hands of beta readers is a huge milestone for me because I do not use alpha readers. That means, the first two people who will ever read it, now have it. (Well, actually, one of them does. The other has to wait for it to arrive in the mail.)

So while the beta readers are doing their thing, I have time to do some other projects: short stories and outlining more books in this series. Writing is fun!

Kobobooks “Long Weekend Sale” has chosen The Undermountain Saga

Awesome opportunity for anyone who uses an ereader that takes ePub files (Kobo, Nook, iBooks).

Kobobooks is running a Long Weekend Sale offering 30% off select titles. Guess which titles I’m going to recommend?

How about the entire Undermountain Saga?

Use code SPRINGSAVE when you check out to get the 30% discount.

Undermountain
Afterlife
Starkiller

Many other awesome books are also eligible so check it out!

Hurry, the sale ends May 27th.

Huge giveaway featuring scads of authors and over 190 different novels!

Indie author extraordinaire Elle Casey is hosting the Springtime Indie Book Giveaway!

“We have 190 titles and 1,554 copies to give away!!  Woo hooo!”

Please follow the link below to see the huge list of YA novels in several different genres and then enter to win! Most authors are giving away multiple copies, so your chances to win something awesome are very good!

Elle Casey’s Springtime Indie Book Giveaway

Details:  The giveaway runs May 10-15 (contest closes on May 15 at 11:59pm EST)

Here’s all the books being given away. To enter the giveaway, use the link above. To find out more about these books, click the cover to go to Amazon and read the blurbs and reviews

Relationship Wisdom from That 70′s Show

Relationship wisdom: “If you’re not mad enough to bareknuckle box, then you’re not mad.” –Red Foreman

Undermountain Saga Doorbuster!

Starting today, Undermountain, Afterlife, and Starkiller ebooks are each only $0.99! If you live outside the US, prices are similarly low. £0.77, €0.89

This sale ends on Sunday, April 21st and may never be repeated again.

The Undermountain Saga #1

Barnes and Noble (nook)
Kobo (epub)
Apple iBookstore
Smashwords (all formats)
Audible (audiobook) not sale priced
iTunes (audiobook) not sale priced

The Undermountain Saga #2

Barnes and Noble (nook)
Kobo (epub)
Apple iBookstore
Smashwords (all formats)

The Undermountain Saga #3

Barnes and Noble (nook)
Kobo (epub)
Apple iBookstore
Smashwords (all formats)



Also $0.99! Set in a small Wisconsin town in the late 1980s, Shadow of the Oak is a humorous YA paranormal mystery novella about three teens who must capture a creature from the underworld in order to save the life of a little girl.


Barnes and Noble (nook)
Kobo (epub)
Apple iBookstore
Smashwords (all formats)

The Tools Do Matter

I’m a bit of a contrarian on this point.

As someone who has played and studied (off and on) a number of guitar styles, I have a natural interest in the gear. I love guitars, amps, effects, tuners, picks, straps. I’m also wise enough to know that a guitar, by itself, won’t make me a good guitarist.

But it is a common saw that intangibles like skill, feel, and heart are the most important elements in a guitarists sound. This may even be true. Those intangibles certainly account for the difference between me and say . . . Yngwie Malmsteen, Joe Pass, or Eddie Van Halen.

That said, the tools do matter. A crappy guitar that won’t stay in tune, or which has impossible action, just causes unnecessary friction. It makes it harder to stay motivated through the monotony of practice.

The tools also provide inspiration in and of themselves. I just got a new guitar. I’ve played more hours in the past week than I have for the past six months. I’m having a blast.

As a writer, the tools also matter. I love and have used Scrivener for three novels. I just switched to something else. Why. Because it felt stale. I needed a change.

Will the new app (Ulysses, FTW) write the book for me? No. But it makes me want to write, just as the new guitar makes me want to play.

 

Help Ben Wolverton: A Book Bomb

David Farland (aka Wolverton) is a bestselling author and a teacher of other authors both famous (Stephanie Meyer, Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells) and not yet famous (me).

His son, Ben, was severely injured in a longboarding accident. The family has no insurance, and the bills for the hospital and treatment in this instance often exceed a million dollars.

Today I’m supporting a book bomb, in which we encourage people to purchase one of Dave’s books. In particular, I encourage you to pick up Nightingale. Not only is it an awesome (multi-award-winning) book, but David get’s 70% of the purchase price on Amazon. (for Nook links, hit up the link at the bottom of this post.) The higher up the rankings Nightingale gets, the more exposure it will get and more people will buy it.

That is how a book bomb works!

Click This Pic and Get the Book!!!!

Click through to the official site and check it out. Let’s get his multi-award-winning YA novel Nightingale waaay up on Amazon’s bestseller list.

For more information and updates about Ben’s condition. There is also a link to a fund for direct contributions if you’re so moved.

Help Ben Wolverton: Books for the Book Bomb

Dreich Days

Sometimes you get the day you need. The one that matches your mood. The one that matches the mood you’re trying to convey in your art.

Here in Wisconsin this morning, it’s dreich.

For the characters in my novel . . . well, they’re on an island in the Caribbean. But inside their hearts today, it shall be very dreich indeed.

 

Cover Re-reveal!

I’m thrilled to reveal the NEW cover art for Shadow of the Oak, my YA supernatural-mystery-with-humor novella.

Shadow of the oak is available from the usual suspects. Amazon has it for a mere $1.99!