G.R. Matthews's Blog, page 2
April 25, 2019
48 Free books...
Self-promotion is a bit like shouting into an endless empty void and hoping, praying (to any god you favour) that someone hears you and shouts back... and knowing my luck it will be in a language I don't understand. Anyway, suffice to say - I am not a fan of drive by self-promo (though "run by fruiting" was my favourite line from Mrs Doubtfire ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmPrt... <-- if you want to watch it ) - and I wanted to make sure it was OK, fit the bill, and wouldn't have me hung, drawn and quartered by the r/fantasy crowd (waves).
This promotion "Event Horizon" is being done via bookfunnel, and I am giving it a try to see how it all works and whether it all works. With that in mind, all thoughts welcome (mostly).
The key point here is that the books (and short stories) are all free and you might just find one (hint: mine) from the 48 which you like - ePub and Kindle available!
If you do have a click and a peek... this runs from 22 April to 30 April (when I have new book coming out... Back in Blue, Corin Hayes Book 4 - if you're interested - the follow up to the Omnibus which came out last month... and now I am really entering the self-promo zone I don't want to dive into).
https://books.bookfunnel.com/eventhor... <--- Click there... I mean, you knew that anyway, but I was just pointing it out...
I'll get my coat.
This promotion "Event Horizon" is being done via bookfunnel, and I am giving it a try to see how it all works and whether it all works. With that in mind, all thoughts welcome (mostly).
The key point here is that the books (and short stories) are all free and you might just find one (hint: mine) from the 48 which you like - ePub and Kindle available!
If you do have a click and a peek... this runs from 22 April to 30 April (when I have new book coming out... Back in Blue, Corin Hayes Book 4 - if you're interested - the follow up to the Omnibus which came out last month... and now I am really entering the self-promo zone I don't want to dive into).
https://books.bookfunnel.com/eventhor... <--- Click there... I mean, you knew that anyway, but I was just pointing it out...
I'll get my coat.
March 11, 2019
ROLL20
So, last night, I played another game of D&D on ROLL20... it is worth a go!
https://www.grmatthews.com/single-pos...
https://www.grmatthews.com/single-pos...
February 24, 2019
Corin Hayes Omnibus
The omnibus is available for pre-order... just so you know! Get it on Kindle and read it in time for book 4!
Corin Hayes Omnibus Books 1 to 3
Corin Hayes Omnibus Books 1 to 3
February 11, 2019
A new book and an Omnibus
Hey all,
Been quiet recently as I've been working on two little projects.
Firstly, I've put together an Omnibus of Corin Hayes 1 - 3 with a brand new cover (which looks amazing) and getting it ready for release!
Secondly, Corin Hayes 4, Back in Blue, is in for editing/proofing and I've got the cover for that sorted too (another amazing one!). This should release a month or so after the Omnibus.
Everyone can get their Corin Hayes fix that way!
If anyone wants ARCs - has a blog, website or is a Goodreads maestro - let me know!
Have fun folks!
Silent City
Nothing Is Ever Simple
Three Times The Trouble
Been quiet recently as I've been working on two little projects.
Firstly, I've put together an Omnibus of Corin Hayes 1 - 3 with a brand new cover (which looks amazing) and getting it ready for release!
Secondly, Corin Hayes 4, Back in Blue, is in for editing/proofing and I've got the cover for that sorted too (another amazing one!). This should release a month or so after the Omnibus.
Everyone can get their Corin Hayes fix that way!
If anyone wants ARCs - has a blog, website or is a Goodreads maestro - let me know!
Have fun folks!
Silent City
Nothing Is Ever Simple
Three Times The Trouble
October 30, 2018
A Good Day to Die
A Good Day to Die - opening lines... not a bad Blurb either (if I say so myself, and I do).
When you leave someone to die a long slow painful death, stick around to enjoy it. Start a fire, cook some food, have a drink, and revel in the pain you've inflicted. Sing songs, throw insults, but most important of all, make sure they're actually dead before you leave.
They didn't do any of those things and they're going to regret it. Every single last one of them.
https://www.grmatthews.com/single-pos...
When you leave someone to die a long slow painful death, stick around to enjoy it. Start a fire, cook some food, have a drink, and revel in the pain you've inflicted. Sing songs, throw insults, but most important of all, make sure they're actually dead before you leave.
They didn't do any of those things and they're going to regret it. Every single last one of them.
https://www.grmatthews.com/single-pos...
April 4, 2018
Post or Perish?
Straight off, I am not speaking from a point of view of success. I wish it were not so, but there it is.
However, I do my best to use social media to engage with readers, potential readers, publishing experts, agents (not the secret kind, just in case GCHQ intercepts this), and editors. Along with keeping in touch with friends, organising evenings out, my D&D group etc.
If you’re here, reading this, you found it, more than likely, on social media. You’ll also be aware that I write books (6 published, two finished but not published yet) and I write on Fantasy-Faction (#SPFBO judging as well as my miscellaneous mumbling on games and other subjects that flash across my consciousness).
If you’re not here (erm…) then you didn’t see it on social media and to a degree I failed to get my message out there. To get that message out I must rely on others who will spread the link through likes, retweets, shares, and their own posts. I need to get this word of mouth started - I need a spark that others will fan into flames. This means I need to make links through shared interests, tags, groups and different types of media.
And what I can’t do is SPAM my content everywhere and at everyone. That just gets real annoying, really fast. I see it a lot on Facebook, throughout the different groups I belong to and it turns me off, but I totally understand why people do it. You’ve got to post or your books/media will remain obscure.
It also means that when people post about your book/media, you’ve got to engage right back! A like, a thanks, or a comment will go a long way! A caveat; if they post something negative, don’t engage unless you are really, really confident anything you say can’t be, won’t be used against you - never complain about a bad review or comment. Everyone is entitled to an opinion - even if it doesn’t agree with yours.
Many writers are introverts, shy and retiring types, (though far from all) and it can be tough to be engaged with everyone, everywhere - but you can control your social media; when to engage, how to engage.
So whether your poison of choice is Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit or any of the others out there, you really do have to post or live in obscurity - at least as a self-published author with the marketing budget sufficient only to purchase an Easter Egg.
(First appeared: https://www.grmatthews.com/single-pos...)
However, I do my best to use social media to engage with readers, potential readers, publishing experts, agents (not the secret kind, just in case GCHQ intercepts this), and editors. Along with keeping in touch with friends, organising evenings out, my D&D group etc.
If you’re here, reading this, you found it, more than likely, on social media. You’ll also be aware that I write books (6 published, two finished but not published yet) and I write on Fantasy-Faction (#SPFBO judging as well as my miscellaneous mumbling on games and other subjects that flash across my consciousness).
If you’re not here (erm…) then you didn’t see it on social media and to a degree I failed to get my message out there. To get that message out I must rely on others who will spread the link through likes, retweets, shares, and their own posts. I need to get this word of mouth started - I need a spark that others will fan into flames. This means I need to make links through shared interests, tags, groups and different types of media.
And what I can’t do is SPAM my content everywhere and at everyone. That just gets real annoying, really fast. I see it a lot on Facebook, throughout the different groups I belong to and it turns me off, but I totally understand why people do it. You’ve got to post or your books/media will remain obscure.
It also means that when people post about your book/media, you’ve got to engage right back! A like, a thanks, or a comment will go a long way! A caveat; if they post something negative, don’t engage unless you are really, really confident anything you say can’t be, won’t be used against you - never complain about a bad review or comment. Everyone is entitled to an opinion - even if it doesn’t agree with yours.
Many writers are introverts, shy and retiring types, (though far from all) and it can be tough to be engaged with everyone, everywhere - but you can control your social media; when to engage, how to engage.
So whether your poison of choice is Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit or any of the others out there, you really do have to post or live in obscurity - at least as a self-published author with the marketing budget sufficient only to purchase an Easter Egg.
(First appeared: https://www.grmatthews.com/single-pos...)
July 29, 2017
Anyone want an Advanced Copy?
I have a few books out at the moment with another coming out very soon and its that one I want to talk about a little.
THREE TIMES THE TROUBLE - CORIN HAYES #3
Getting reviews on launch day or just after is vital to a book release - and to books that are already out. To that end, I've a request to make. Are there folks out there... looking for 20 to 30 book loving folks who are Goodreads and Amazon.com/.co.uk active and who would read my latest book - Three Times The Trouble - and put up reviews just after it has released?
Find out more here:
https://www.grmatthews.com/single-pos...
THREE TIMES THE TROUBLE - CORIN HAYES #3
Getting reviews on launch day or just after is vital to a book release - and to books that are already out. To that end, I've a request to make. Are there folks out there... looking for 20 to 30 book loving folks who are Goodreads and Amazon.com/.co.uk active and who would read my latest book - Three Times The Trouble - and put up reviews just after it has released?
Find out more here:
https://www.grmatthews.com/single-pos...
July 9, 2017
Outlaw Mountain: Free Story
Well, in-between book 3 of Corin Hayes and the new Work-in-Progress, my A-Team vs World of Warcraft novel, I scribbled down a short story set in the world of the Forbidden List. You know, The Stone Road, The Blue Mountain, The Red Plains.
Anyway, the short story is free from my website. Just click on the red button and get it. Just go to www.grmathews.com
Gang and Liu are sent on a simple mission to take care of some bandits who are plaguing a small village.
There is talk of a dragon in mountains, but they don't exist. Do they?
The story is FREE from my website in all eBook formats or you can grab it from Barnes and Noble too. Why not head over to www.grmatthews.com and pick it up... oh, and if you could leave a review or two in all the usual places.
Anyway, the short story is free from my website. Just click on the red button and get it. Just go to www.grmathews.com
Gang and Liu are sent on a simple mission to take care of some bandits who are plaguing a small village.
There is talk of a dragon in mountains, but they don't exist. Do they?
The story is FREE from my website in all eBook formats or you can grab it from Barnes and Noble too. Why not head over to www.grmatthews.com and pick it up... oh, and if you could leave a review or two in all the usual places.
July 2, 2017
Tough Travels: Adepts
Who is the most powerful mage (Adept) of all fantasy books?
Following up the Fantasy-Faction Tough Travels.. I have my own go at finding 6 powerful magic users!
https://www.grmatthews.com/single-pos...
Following up the Fantasy-Faction Tough Travels.. I have my own go at finding 6 powerful magic users!
https://www.grmatthews.com/single-pos...
May 14, 2017
A review of The Stone Road
This is a great review and I'm so glad the reader is continuing on the rest of the series!
http://bohomind.com/the-stone-road-th...
http://bohomind.com/the-stone-road-th...
