Brendan Carroll's Blog: Working my way back - Posts Tagged "assassins"

For the first 13 correct answers to the question below, I will give a free coupon for Books 1 & 2, Assassin Chronicles. And for the second 13 correct answers I will give a free coupon for Book 1, Assassin Chronicles, the Knight of Death.

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WHY IS FRIDAY 13TH CONSIDERED BAD LUCK?

Recently, I allowed the first book in my Assassin Chronicles series to go free for a while. I was very nervous about doing so for awhile and had been thinking of doing it for over a year.
I thought that it would be counter-productive to give away a book that I had hoped to make money from sales enough for vacations and other hobbies. However, since I made it free, I have had an amazing number of downloads and this can only be good for my series in the long run. If the readers who down-loaded the free version enjoy the book and want to read more, they will surely return for the second and third books. That would be very gratifying indeed.
Of course, I also hoping for more reviews for the series, but sometimes we get what we ask for and reviewers are not always kind... even for free books.
Although I am confidently reinforced on a daily basis by my fans that the series is worth reading, I still bite my nails at the thought of receiving a new review. It is a shame that they cannot be standardized and a bit less subjective, but then they would not be so interesting, colorful and personal in content. So it is a hard call wishing for more reviews and scary. Ask any author with mixed reviews such as mine. I have 5's and I have 1's and each time I discover a new one posted somewhere, my heart beats a little faster and my blood pressure go up slightly before I read it.
Sometimes the BP soars AFTER reading one.
So I will keep my book free for awhile and see what happens.

Greetings Friends, Fans and Fellow Authors!

My last post was in 2016. A lot of things have happened since then. My personal obligations precluded writing for the last six years. So I've been on a requisite hiatus. I want to come back to the writing world, which I have missed tremendously, with a new start.

I published my first book "The Knight of Death" in 2008 shortly after the Kindle phenomenon was introduced to the world. Things were much simpler back then for Indie Authors. And there were infinite trial and error possibilities. Most were errors.

Prior to Kindle, I wrote my books in hopes of one day pursuing an agent and a publisher. I did have a little bit of success finding an agent, but he never could work a deal for me.

Then things began to change in 2008. Without the benefit of a professional editor, I published my books one by one with only Beta Readers. Since that time "The Knight of Death" has got to be one of the most edited and uploaded eBook ever written. I only just added a recent edition to that collection. Now I want to take the time to get back in the swim of things with an all new/all old effort.

I hope that you will be amenable to re-reading and if you haven't read, take up the series. I have a lot of good reviews here and on Amazon, though I don't know how I got them.

Take a new look at an old book.

Thank you so much for bearing with me. The Knight of Death: The Assassin Chronicles