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September 10, 2016
Early Reviews?
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September 7, 2016
D-Day for the Smitherd & Shaw Podcast?
Bottled Water and Intellectual Safe Spaces. It's D-Day for Are You Sure? with Smitherd and Shaw as the listener rating line in the sand is reached. Did we make it? Listen to find out! Also, there's a BIG surprise change to this week's show ...and not just in the topics we're discussing (we announced last week that it would Bottled Water and Tattoos, but a piece of listener mail changed all that ...)
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September 6, 2016
AUDIOBOOK VERSION available for Pre-Order: New Book - "How to be a Vigilante - A Diary"
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August 30, 2016
Pre-Order my New Book - "How to be a Vigilante - A Diary"
Here are the links:
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In the late 1990s, a laptop was found in a service station just outside of Manchester. It contained a digital journal entitled 'TO THE FINDER: OPEN NOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE!' Now, for the first time, that infamous diary is being published in its entirety.
It's 1998. The internet age is still in its infancy. Google has just been founded. Eighteen year old supermarket shelf-stacker Nigel Carmelite has decided that he's going to become a vigilante.
There are a few problems: how is he going to even find crime to fight on the streets of Derbyshire? How will he create a superhero costume - and an arsenal of crime-fighting weaponry - on a shoestring budget? And will his history of blackouts and crippling social inadequacy affect his chances? This is Nigel's account of his journey; part diary, part deluded self-help manual, tragically comic and slowly descending into what is arguably Luke Smitherd's darkest and most violent novel.
What do you believe in? And more importantly ...should you?
August 25, 2016
Smitherd & Shaw Podcast - Are You Sure? - Episode 9 - Now Available
We need 200 listeners or this will be the end of the Smitherd and Shaw Podcast. The links are below. Please like the post so it will show up in your timeline. We need listeners.
What would you do without Transatlantic
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August 2, 2016
In the Darkness, That's Where I'll Know You - FREE Aug 2 - Aug 6
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4.9 rating with 232 reviews
There are hangovers, there are bad hangovers, and then there's waking up inside someone else's head.
The morning after a boozy night before comes with the rudest of awakenings for young bartender Charlie Wilkes. Instead of finding himself in his bedroom, he awakes in a prison consisting of moving, undulating black walls and a huge glowing screen that seems to float in thin air. But the prison isn't a prison, and the screen isn't a screen; incredibly, he is somehow inside the mind of a young woman - Minnie - and the screen is actually a projection of what she sees.
How did he end up in the Black Room? What has happened to his life? How is it that he recognises Minnie, feels a bond of some sort with her ...even though they've never met? Can he exist inside the mind of a troubled, terrified, but beautiful woman with secrets of her own? Most important of all, can he ever get out?
Uncertain whether he's even real or if he is just a figment of his host's imagination, Charlie and Minnie must work together - and learn the secret of their strange connection - if he is to find a way out of The Black Room, a place where even the light of the screen goes out every time Minnie closes her eyes...
July 27, 2016
HOW TO BE A VIGILANTE: A DIARY
But how would you like to get it a month earlier than that? Click on the link below to find out more!
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Want to get ‘How To Be A Vigilante: A Diary’ a month early?
Yep, my new novel How To Be A Vigilante: A Diary (although technically its my very first novel) is available for pre-order on Amazon now by clicking here! It will then be automatically beamed to your Kindle when its released on September 14th. So go pre-order now! Waaaaaah!
Pre-order How To Be A Vigilante: A Diary here and have it ker-zapped to your Kindle on the day it’s released!
But wait …of course, you can just do that. Of course you could. But …how would you not only like to get it a month earlier than the release date, but for free?
All you need to do is click on the link below to sign up to my all-new Luke’s Smitherd’s All-New Premature Release Review Group. That’s right, the old group has been dismantled for reasons that will be explained when you click on the link (don’t worry, you can read them before you decide sign up or not; the link just takes you through to a rules and reviewer info page.) The rules are a bit stricter this time because a few people took advantage last time, sadly, but in a nutshell what you need to agree to do is this: read the book, and put up a review on September 14th. In return, I’ll send you an advance review copy of the book to read, absolutely free.
Click here to go through to the Luke Smitherd’s All-New Premature Release Review Group rules and signup page!
Q and A:
1. Yes, if you’re already a member of the old group, you have to sign up to the new group to take part.Sorry. There’s a reason why and it’s on the rules page too.
2. People often ask if they can pay when they get a free review copy; of course you can. Just click on the pre-order link above to buy the book, and I’ll still send you your copy early if you join the review group.
3. Yes, if you join the group and don’t keep up your end of the bargain, you will be banned from the mailing list and any future offers. I really, really hate to talk about stuff like that but if you did that I would consider it theft, and you, a cad.
4. Of course, if you just want to pre-order and are happy to wait until September 14th, you absolutely can! Just click on the pre-order link at the top of the email, or here! 
July 24, 2016
My Name is Mister Grief - Free on Amazon until July 28
"He can help you."
Have you ever felt like you couldn't go on? That you were nearly lost under the weight of your own burdens? Were you told - or did you decide - that the only way out was to soldier on, to blindly grind out the days until you felt like you could breathe again, if not as well as before?
What if there was another way?
That's the option that Jerry is presented with by his best friend Robert, along with an incredible tale of the man that came to Robert in his own time of need; the man who calls himself Mister Grief. The man who has a tale of his own to tell.
A story within a story within a story, MY NAME IS MISTER GRIEF continues the new Luke Smitherd tradition of making the reader wonder 'what would I do?' while transporting them to the place where everyone has a secret and the impossible is possible.
July 20, 2016
I’m Being Published.
Ok, it’s all been signed off and confirmed and so now I can officially announce the big bit of news that I’ve been hinting at.
I’m being published.
Audible are actually going to produce and publish the audiobook of KILL SOMEONE. ANYONE. An advance has been agreed and, more importantly, they’re going to be marketing it. That last part, as you perhaps already realise, is absolutely huge to someone like me who has only had themselves – as well as some of you guys who really help spread the word, and recently Joanne Giovenco whose I would like to publicly thank for her invaluable help, as well as Laurence and Henna at Audible and of course Sophie at ACX – to try and get the books in front of people.
If this interests you the next questions probably are: when’s it coming out, and who is going to be doing the voiceover? The honest answers are 1. Not 100% sure but probably November I should think, as production time is roughly two months. 2. I don’t know. It might be me, but while I’ll be being consulted about it the final decision for that lies with them. It’s a small concession for me to make, and I trust their judgement.
The good news for this is also that I can schedule a simultaneous Amazon and Audible release for not only that book but HOW TO BE A VIGILANTE: A DIARY as well.
All release dates will be confirmed soon, and pre-orders will be possible too. Those of you who want to join the launch team (advance copies in exchange for launch day reviews) get on the mailing list.
For those of you who have spread the word and left your reviews, thank you so much. If you hadn’t made noise, this never would have happened.
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