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Paperback bundles/discount code

Paperback bundles of Wildfire Chronicles Volumes 1-3 and 4-6 are now available :D

This is the cheapest way for anyone who prefers reading physical books to ebooks to get hold of the whole series, and in total weighs in at a little over 1100 pages in 6x9 format. The books are available now at Amazon, and will shortly be available at Barnes & Noble and other retailers.

You can also buy them via Createspace here: Vol 1-3, Vol 4-6. Enter the code VJQY2MX5 at checkout to get 25% off the price :)

All aboard the ARC

Want to get free copies of my upcoming books? Here's how:

I'm setting up an ARC program, and I'm currently looking for people who'd like to join. For those that don't know ARC's are 'advance reader copies' of books distributed at launch to generate honest reviews. So if you are willing to post a review to Amazon and/or Goodreads, please drop me a message through the contact page on my site (or message me on Facebook, or email me direct at krg@krgriffiths.org if you prefer) and mention the ARC program.

All ARC readers will receive a book in their preferred format: MOBI (Kindle), Epub (other e-readers, smartphones and tablets) or PDF at - or just before - release day, to review within 2 weeks of launch.

I'm looking for around twenty to thirty advance readers to begin with, and priority will be given to those who have already reviewed one of my books somewhere (please mention which book you've reviewed in the past to guarantee a spot). Once I reach thirty readers I'll close the ARC program, but further entries will be kept on a standby list to replace readers who drop out, and will be given priority for any future expansions of the ARC program.

The only rule I have is that you must mention in your review that you received a free copy in return for providing an honest review, other than that I'd encourage you to review however you see fit. It doesn't need to be a five star review, or a lengthy book report, just your thoughts on the book and whether you enjoyed it.

The first book I'll be sending out ARC copies of will be my forthcoming novel Adrift , so if you'd like to be the first to get it, please get in touch!

Audio Wildfire

Narrator Craig Beck I am very pleased and excited to announce that work has begun on an audiobook version of Wildfire Chronicles! The series is being produced by Viral Success Ltd and narrated by award-winning narrator Craig Beck. From what I've heard so far it sounds fantastic and I can't wait to check out the final result, which will be available on Amazon/iTunes/Audible.com soon.

More news on a release date when I get it, but I hope it won't be long before the first installment is available, so watch this space!

Wildfire 6 and what's next

So Reaction is out there in the wild now, and Wildfire Chronicles is finished! For now at least (No, it's definitely finished. Or is it?! *dramatic music*)

Anyways, now that it seems to have populated across all stores, I'll add the buy links below.

And now I'm working on a few projects. The first of these is getting the Wildfire series into audiobook format, which is pretty cool and exciting, and I hope I'll have more news on that shortly. I'm also working on my first round of bonus content for subscribers, the novella Survivor: At present the plan is to give Survivor free to my mailing list. I haven't yet decided whether to make it available on other channels. I hope it will be ready in the next few weeks, and I will of course notify all subscribers when it's ready.

After that, it's on to the novel Adrift , which I'm really excited about. I hope those people that enjoyed Wildfire will enjoy Adrift ; it will feature a similar sort of horror/action vibe. Depending on how it's received there is the option to add sequels, but it won't be a series in the same way Wildfire is, so not one continuing story, but more like individual stories featuring the same characters. Anyway, I'm getting way ahead of myself there!

Thanks again to everybody that has read Wildfire, and I hope you enjoy the end.

Reaction is available at:
Amazon.com
Amazon.co.uk
Google Play
Barnes & Noble
Apple iBooks
Kobo
Smashwords

Volume 6 Release Date

You are awesome

Yeah you, that's right, I'm talking to you. Because if you are reading this it's probably because you've read some or all of Wildfire Chronicles. Almost one year on from publishing the first installment, and I still have to pinch myself that I am doing what I always dreamed of and there are people out there reading my stuff. Even if you read it and didn't like it, you're still awesome, because you took a chance on an unknown author, and you have my thanks.

So what's brought on this outpouring of emotion? Maybe I'm just getting emotional because the end is in sight for Wildfire, and it's taken up a year of my life. Could be that. Could be the fact that I've had people contact me to say they are looking forward to reading what I do next, which is amazing to me. Hell, maybe it's just that the sun is shining for once and I realised I haven't 'blogged' in ages. Of course I use 'blogged' in the loosest possible sense here - some people are naturally great bloggers, and I sort of wish I was, but you gotta play the hand you're dealt, right?

Anyways, the end is coming very soon, and once I have a definite release date for Reaction I'll announce it here and on Facebook/Twitter. 

In the meantime, if you've been with me from the beginning, or have just started reading; if you've reviewed or mentioned my books anywhere; even if you've just plain old cursed me for the shit I put my characters through, or for a cliffhanger that made you want to slap me, then I just thought I should say, well, just read the title of this post again.

And for those of you who want to know what comes after Wildfire Chronicles:

The end is nigh

Well, not quite nigh, but approaching! The final installment of Wildfire Chronicles is progressing well, and I hope to release around the end of May. There would be a nice symmetry to that: Panic was released May 31 2013 so fingers crossed I'll have Reaction (Wildfire Chronicles Vol. 6) ready for the 1-year anniversary! :D

New release Trauma

New release Trauma could accurately describe my feelings of apprehension when I finally release a new book into the wild, but thankfully not in this case (well, not entirely). I could add a colon to the title of this post to clear up confusion but...well, why turn down the opportunity to make a weak pun?

The latest volume of Wildfire Chronicles is now available, and I'm already blown away by the response I've had to it. Turns out the people that said they were waiting for it weren't kidding! :o

Yikes.

So, a huge thanks to everybody reading it - I hope you enjoy it as much as I did writing it! I'm having such a great time with this series that it's sad to think the end is near. Trauma begins a trend of longer installments (I reckon it's the longest volume yet by around 30% or so) and I anticipate one further (most likely bigger still) installment to close the series, which will be released later this year.

Anyway, before this accidentally turns into an actual blog post (I really must figure out how to blog) I should say that Trauma is now available at Amazon, Google Play and Smashwords (links below) at the usual price. It should appear on Kobo very shortly and Barnes & Noble and iTunes hopefully as soon as possible.


Amazon.com
Amazon.co.uk
Google Play
Smashwords.com
Kobo
Barnes & Noble

Night Terror - free iPhone app

A few months ago, after reviewing Panic, the good folks over at horrorchannel.co.uk asked me to come up with some short stories for an iPhone app - the idea is to listen before you sleep and let your iPhone measure whether you subsequently get nightmares! 

The App has just been released and is free on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/night-terror/id780565055?mt=8

Coming soon...