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February 26, 2014
Losing a Backstreet Boy Reboot #3!
Have you ever struggled with your weight? Do you want to lose anywhere from 10 to 200+ pounds? Do you love food and hate exercise? Yeah? Me too.
I’m not an obese weight-loss guru like Dr. Phil. I’m just a guy trying to stay healthy at any cost. Maybe this time I’ll hit my goal. Click on the pic if you care to join me or just feel like watching my journey.
Free for a limited time, CRUELTY: Episode One!
In celebration of CRUELTY: Episode Three’s release, I’ve decided to make Episode One available for free download until March 3rd.
Please, if you’re so inclined, help spread the word.
Click the cover below to download from Amazon.com, or keep scrolling for international links.
Amazon Canada, please and thank you.
Brazil, Mexico, Spain, India, Italy
February 25, 2014
CRUELTY: Episode Three!
Finally! CRUELTY: Episode Three is ready for public consumption. I just clicked publish, and it should be ready in the next 24 hours. I’m sorry about the delay. It’s no one’s fault but my own.
You might want to reread the first two episodes, as this episode brings a great deal of answers to the table. The next two episodes (Four and Five) will hearken back to the slasher-film feel of the first episode. Four is coming April 1st and Five will be released on May 1st. After that I will be taking a break until August. This is only so that I can have the rest of the series edited and proofread to avoid further delays, which, truth be told, I should have done in the first place. Lesson learned.
Thank you all for your patience.
CRUELTY is a serial novel in ten parts.
Episode Three.
The corpse in the cooler of Bob’s Bait and Fuel might not be the innocent victim everyone first assumed.
William Longmire is released from police custody only to find out his buddy Kirk is in the hospital.
Innis Blake is stuck between two worlds. Will she find her way out before Cruelty has his way?
Regret is born.
February 23, 2014
If you’re interested in owning this short story you have ...
If you’re interested in owning this short story you have three options: Buy WORLD’S GREATEST DAD on Amazon by clicking the cover below, download it for free on Goodreads by clicking HERE, or buy my collection WHAT THE DARK BRINGS. If you choose to download the PDF on Goodreads you will have to rename the file. I’ve been fighting with this all day but I can’t seem to get the title to transfer. Sorry about that.
Depending on how well this goes over, I may do this with future stories as well. As always, thanks for your support.
E.
February 17, 2014
Open Letter to Self-Published Authors, by All Hail Grimlock
(E. here. The following is a post from a Booklikes member that goes by the handle All Hail Grimlock. I keep hearing about how the “Sea of Crap” isn’t affecting indie authors and their sales. Some even say their sales are getting better. The fact of the matter is, I’ve been watching the tides change, mainly because I’m an active member of book sites like Goodreads and Booklikes. For fuck’s sake, who’re you going to listen to? Other authors? Or the people who actually buy your books? It might not be bad now, but it’s coming. Get a clue.)
The following post can be read HERE or below.
I’ve been reading about Chuck Wendig and how he’s a gatekeeper on the kboards, or how he’s chastising and saying awful things, and why should you care if anyone else produces dreck?
So I’ll say what I’ve said from the start, which is if you don’t care, neither do I. I see many authors, self-published authors, who will not care about editing and say they can’t afford editing, and also complain that people – people like me – don’t give self-publishing authors much of a chance, if they give them a chance at all.
I hear, ‘just read the samples’, ‘what do you expect for ninety-nine cents or even three dollars’, or some form of argument that amounts to me going through a slushpile that wouldn’t make it past editors at publishing companies. I’m not interested; I have better ways to spend my time, in fact, than reading hundreds of samples to find a well-edited, professional book when I can find that elsewhere.
Or in other words, you can’t have it both ways. If you want me to consider self-publishing seriously, take your profession seriously. The fact that so many authors are cheerleading mediocre, half-assed efforts only encourages me not to turn to self-published books for my reading needs.
I’ve found some self-publishers who are amazing. Talented, edited, professional, and even courteous. But the majority do not fall into that category, and I am unwilling to put up with sifting through unedited manuscripts. If you, as you claim, want more people to read self-edited books, then stop putting the onus on the readers. Stop telling us it’s our responsibility to make our way through the labyrinths of poorly edited, and unedited books, to find those. Stop trying to shame us because we have books we know we like, published by a company that has minimum standards; you try to shame us by pointing at us and telling us we’re not putting in the effort. And therein lies your problem: for some of us, it’s just so much of an effort to find anything that does meet those minimum standards in the self-publishing community. Stop telling us that only the good books will survive, as clearly that is not the case because unedited manuscripts that read like the author knows english as a second or third language – to be generous – wrote it become bestsellers.
If other people want to read that, want to waste their time searching for the diamonds in the rough, so be it. I do not. And I refuse to do it. Not only that, horror of horrors, I refuse to be shamed for using my time wisely and sticking to what I like – from brilliant traditionally published books, to self-published books my friends with great taste recommend, to horrible monster-porn that makes me laugh it’s so bad.
I’m certainly not going to see the light of sampling all day long just because one more author who doesn’t care about their product, and doesn’t want to spend time or money editing their books, tells me that the samples exist. I know. I’m still not even sampling your books for a reason.
(E. again. For those of you saying to yourself that this is just one person’s thoughts, you’re mistaken. It’s already much harder to get reviews for self-published books and it will continue to get more difficult. The simple truth is that most readers aren’t as vocal as this, but they feel the same way. What you will see is a gradual decrease in sales for indies, or no sales whatsoever. Of course authors like Konrath and Howey and Wendig are projecting a massive increase in sales, they’ve already grown and cultivated a fan base. If you’re not worried about this recent shift in reviewers’ attitude, you’re a damn fool.)
Free for a limited time, CRAWL, by Edward Lorn!
Starting Monday, February 17th and ending on the 21st, CRAWL will be free on Amazon.com. If you’re so inclined, help spread the word by sharing this post.
Click the cover to grab your copy today!
A NEW NOVELETTE FROM THE AUTHOR OF LIFE AFTER DANE
You’re out in the middle of nowhere.
You’ve been crippled and left for dead.
There’s something in the woods.
It’s coming.
There’s only one thing you can do…
CRAWL
February 9, 2014
Win CRUELTY!
Click on the link below and enter to win the entire first season of CRUELTY (Audible Edition). Episodes One and Two are currently available. All future installments will be gifted upon release!
http://ravenousreads.blogspot.com/2014/02/review-crawl-by-edward-lorn.html
February 8, 2014
Ruminating On: Personal Opinion and Artistic Responsibility
A healthy mind is an active mind. Television and movies are fun and whatnot, but they lack viewer interaction. There’s nothing better than casting your own mental movie and blowing your brain’s budget on special effects. When reading, the sky is not the limit. There are no boundaries, nothing to hold you back. The mind is as infinite as space, and loads more entertaining. This is why I love reading and writing, but I will always be a reader first.
Though my father was illiterate, my mother and sisters were avid readers. For the most part, I was raised in a house that nurtured imagination and creativity. My mother was a member of several book clubs, and would much rather buy me books than toys. Because of this, I learned how to be alone. That’s not a sad thing. In fact I consider it one of my defining characteristics. I don’t need anyone else to make me happy because I’m perfectly content with having only myself for company. This doesn’t mean I’m antisocial, only that, if the need arises, I can be alone without drowning in depression.
I think all of that culminated to create an individual who respects personal opinion and artistic responsibility. As readers, we’re given an open playing field, but if the writer hasn’t cut the grass and weeded the fringe, the bigger picture can be lost, and our enjoyment crumbles. There’s nothing worse than picking up a book and finding out the author didn’t even try to tell a cogent, engaging story. Are we mad at them? Yeah, and for good reason. Even if we didn’t spent our money on the piece, our time is has been wasted. Artistic responsibility comes into play here. Author, you are a travel salesman who deals in escapism, wherein you must provide access to all the niceties and necessities: sightseeing, entertainment, strangers with which we might become lifelong friends or fierce enemies. Readers are buying a pass from life, if only for a moment, because this existence is rough, like a playground slide made out of sandpaper; it might not hurt at first, but, in the end, everyone’s ass gets chewed up at least once. If we don’t “get you” or “understand your genius” that is our prerogative. No one told you how to write your book, so do not assume you can tell us what to think of it. Sure, every now and then a readers’ own mood will ruin their vacation, but most of us explain that this is the case when and if it happens, but not every book is bad just because the reader was in a less-than-stellar mood. Some books are just rancid, like an overused jockstrap that’s been secreted away behind a locker for the past ten years.
Writers, as a fellow author, I understand your woes, but they really are just that: YOUR woes. I know these strung together words mean a lot to us, but, once you let them out into the world, you no longer have sole claim to them. Stories breed. They sprout and grow and branch off into infinite possibilities. Stories also infect. They can fester and sicken and desolate. Authors, which would you rather be? The parent of a promising child, or the host to contagion? The choice is yours.
I’ve been E. You’ve been you. Goodnight.
GUEST POSTS AND INTERVIEWS
I’ve been asked several times in the past two weeks if I do these things, so here’s a public response, you know, in case you were scared to ask (and yes, a couple of people have said, “I’m afraid to ask, but…”). If you would like to schedule a guest post or interview with me, all you have to do is send me a request in the comments section of this post, or email me at edwardlorn@gmail.com.
I never refuse an offer to take over someone else’s space for a number of hours. I’m just another reader, like the rest of you, whom happens to write a lot as well. Don’t ever worry about approaching me. I’m about the most down-to-earth nut-case you’ll ever come across. Let’s bask in my insanity together.
COVER REVEAL! PRETZEL, by Edward Lorn
COMING JUNE 2014
Time travel can be hell.
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