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Amazon Prime Members Can Read THE DOOMSDAY CLUB" For FREE!

Amazon's new lending library for the Kindle is now open and I just made my novel-length thriller, THE DOOMSDAY CLUB available as a free read for all Amazon Prime Members!

This means all of you new KINDLE FIRE owners who were blessed with that one-year of free Amazon Prime membership can indulge in this lightning-paced thriller of mine about four friends who inadvertently kill someone and then invent a phony terrorist group to cover up the crime.

 AMAZON PRIME MEMBERS CAN READ THE DOOMSDAY CLUB FOR FREE!

I HAVE AN IDEA HOW TO GET RID OF THE BODY…

Nikko says, swallowing hard. "But you may not like it.

As it turns out, you don't. Not even one little bit. But deep down inside you have a gut feeling this is the only chance you're going to get….

"Reads like a bullet train. I couldn't put it down!"

–BERT LOVITT, screenwriter, director (PRINCE JACK)

Recent Praise for the Rev. MYN and "Go Forth and Kick Some Ass"

Over the last few days, I've been extremely humbled by a trio of emails I received from people who wanted to let me know that the preachings of the Rev. MYN and my motivational book "Go Forth and Kick Some Ass" had profoundly impacted their lives.

"…Your motivation has helped me carve out a fresh start for myself in a new job with a 50% pay raise." – TOM C.

"I was able to pull my grades up in time to open up all these doors and provide myself with a bright future…. I wouldn't have been able to get where I am without the encouragement you preach…" – ADAM D.

"…helped me out by making me ask questions about what I wanted to do and how I could be a better attorney…" – TIM W.

Yeah, I know a lot of you only think of me as that goofball who does that PCH thing. LOL… but truly, I am grateful to know that the simple little lessons I've learned that help me stay motivated, creative and moving forward do indeed resonate with others. If you have any comments about my Rev. MYN sermons or Go Forth and Kick Some Ass, please feel free to drop me a line.

And yes, there's another Rev. MYN book coming in 2012!

All Four of My Non-Fiction Books are on Kindle Bestseller Lists

I think this is one of those "blink and you'll miss it moments" so I thought I'd document it quickly in case it never happens again. All four of my non-fiction books are all sitting on their respective Kindle category bestseller lists.

The Killing of Osama Bin Laden

Where's My F*cking Latte

Go Forth and Kick Some Ass

PISSED OFF: Is Better Than Being Pissed On…

 

Go Forth and Pissed Off are both hanging on by a thread… though since they both seem to linger outside the top 100, I hope this won't be their last time on their respective lists… finger's X'd.

I Would Kill to Write the Next Bond Novel or Some Other Mega-Action Franchise For Someone

Without a doubt, it's been busy. And that's the way I like it. Sure this past year has certainly brought it's share of misfires (a comic book, a TV series, a reality pilot, an animated feature)–all things that came together in one way or another, looked promising for a while and then fell apart. That's just part of the territory when you're an independent artist. Opportunities come and go and sometimes they blow up in your face because of something unfortunate (i.e. stupid) that someone else did. In most cases it ends up for the best. In every case, you pick yourself back up, brush yourself off and keep marching forward.

However, one of the things that went extremely right this year was my own efforts to build up my book sales. Around March, I discovered the ebook revolution had come knocking on my door. Sales of the one ebook I had released in 2008, "Where's My F*cking Latte", had been growing from a seedling into a mighty oak and were now exploding. I realized immediately that the growing ebook revolution would be huge for indie guys like me. My buddy Blake Morgan really instilled a mission into my head when he told me that the best way to sell back catalog was to release more material.

So that's what I did. I polished up and released seven older novels as ebooks, several of which had only been available as serialized podcasts. I wrote lots and lots of brand new material and released three more non-fiction books and a book of short stories. All four of my non-fiction books hit the Kindle bestseller lists in their respective categories. Latte and the Bin Laden book have become fixtures at the top of theirs.

And yes, all of my books sell copies and those sales keep growing as the market continues to go vertical.

So far for 2012 I have a brand new urban fantasy series comprised of three novellas. I also have another Rev. MYN book, the sequel to "Go Forth and Kick Some Ass," coming out. Both projects are written and finished. I'm also starting development on another big non-fiction book that I'd like to have out before summer.

And as I was drafting a battle plan of what I'd like to accomplish as an author in 2012, I had a thought. I'd love to find a great writing assignment. I am very fortunate to spend as much time as I do working on all of my own books, but in the spirit of spicing it up a bit I was thinking it would be really awesome  to get hired to write for someone else's project…to step into some other character's world and put my talents to work adding my own spin to their adventures.

The dream: to write a big action story as part of a massive franchise like Bond, Halo or something similar. My novel, "Number One with a Bullet" was very much a Bourne-meets-Bond type of story. I know I could knock something like this out of the park.

I don't really know anybody to approach with this so I thought I'd just throw it out there, screaming into the sky with the hope that somehow, someway it finds the right ears. If you have an action franchise that needs an author, let's talk. I'll send you samples of some of my best pulse-pounding work and we'll go from there.

PCH is Considering Breaking Up With You… The Free Audience

Look, it's not you, it's me… oh, who am I kidding. It's you, the many thousands out there who continue to download the show for free and don't seem to give a rat's ass. We're very close to being done with you.

Let me just say up front that there have been a small number of PCH fans out there who have been amazing. You know who you are. You've communicated with us, sent us links to stuff. You've made doing the show again a lot of fun and we deeply appreciate you because you are our favorite fans… the problem is that you are unfortunately among a very small minority of PCH listeners.

There will definitely be a new season of PCH starting sometime early next year. Mike and I have both agreed to make it happen. At this point, it's looking highly likely that all brand new episodes for next season of PCH will be sold as 99 cent downloads.

We tried to keep it free… we put it in your hands, free listening audience… During the show's six year run we've done nearly 600 free episodes and this past season has been the funniest ever. All we asked in our season finale was one tiny symbolic gesture to let us know that you were behind what we were doing and what the show was all about…

And yes, a pretty decent number of you did do this one token thing and I can't thank you enough. Lord knows I trust Mevio's reporting of our numbers less than I would trust Charlie Sheen to hold my stash, but considering the volume of downloads we've been getting, sadly those good people that came through with this one tiny token of appreciation for our work were few and far in between.

Christ, it's not about money. It's never about the money. If it were we could monetize the show with my MYN GoDaddy Coupon Codes, but I always hated affiliate marketing podcast monetization because it treats your show's episodes like widgets that only exist to enhance your SEO and your SERPs. This time around we brought back PCH without sponsors on purpose, to go back to focusing on the show, not just making it a widget or ad platform. So, a pay wall is not about money.  No, it's the principle of the matter.

We're not looking for an audience that will just show up because we're giving away free shit to fill their earbuds. I know if it's not PCH, they'll just download some other free podcast. That's fine. I'm not interested in that audience anymore. Let someone else have that burden. Is it too much to ask to have an audience that mostly cares?

Doesn't matter one bit to me if only a handful of people show up. Honestly, recording PCH is my therapy and I would rather do this show for a tiny group of people that values the work we do as opposed to feeling like I'm standing on a street corner with my guitar case open and my dick in my hand. To me, I'm happy to do the show for just one person who cares enough about the show that they would actually pay for it. One paying listener to me is worth a thousand free ones who can't even be bothered to email a comment.

Given how pathetically little feedback we have always gotten from the audience, for a long time it's felt like we've been doing a show for 6 people anyway–so in my mind, there's little difference. But now I know if someone is spending 99 cents for the download, we're going to work even harder to make the shows funnier and more entertaining than ever. It's the ultimate experiment… to see if our show is good enough to grow that paid audience from a tiny handful of people to a less tiny handful of people.

Game on.

Yes, I'm Recording an Audiobook Version of INFINITY

Because it's much easier to catch little things in a manuscript that need to be changed when you hear yourself read it aloud, I decided that it really wouldn't require much more effort to just turn on my VO rig and just "perform" my upcoming urban fantasy series INFINITY.

Now, that being said… I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with the audio version of INFINITY. I'm still contemplating several different scenarios. I think the likelihood of it being released as a free podcast is slim. Right now, I'm leaning toward releasing it as a paid downloadable audiobook, probably right around the same time that the ebook comes out… maybe even sooner. I'm also thinking that the ebook versions will include a few extra scenes not in the audiobook version… just to make it more interesting… but we'll see.  Maybe, I'll release a couple of chapters for free just as a teaser…

First, let me get through the material and see how I feel about it. So far, it's sounding really good though…

 

If You Want PCH Back For Another Season…

…you will do as we say…

We had an amazing time recording this past season's episodes. I think they're by far the funniest episodes of PCH ever. I know a number of you have requested we come back for another season. We'd like to, but we need something from you first…a reasonable response to a request.

PCH is free and will always be free to listen to. I think it's some of the best free comedy content out there. We'd like to continue to provide this free comedy podcast to you, but we need to know you care.

Just as we laid out in the PCH season finale, all we ask is that you buy a copy of PISSED OFF: Is Better Than Being Pissed On… the PCH rants book. Sure, you may have heard some or all of the rants from this season including the ones about Child Beauty Pageants, Autoerotic Asphyxiation, Competitive Eating, Dog Sweaters and more…PISSED OFF contains all of the EXTENDED versions of those rants plus a couple of exclusive ones that are only in the book.

PISSED OFF is only 99 cents and is available for KINDLE or NOOK  or iBOOKS. Don't have an ebook reader like a Kindle or Nook? No worries. You don't actually need a Kindle or Nook to read my ebooks! Plus, you can always send a copy as a gift.

All we're looking for is a reasonable response from the audience to know that providing all of this kickass free entertainment is worth the serious amount of time and resources that go into it. Enough people buy the book and we come back. If not, then, well… so long and thanks for all the fish.

We've done our part. Now it's up to you, the audience.  if you want PCH back for another season, first you're going to have to get PISSED OFF.

Pacific Coast Hellway is Now Available on Stitcher!

Got Stitcher? PCH is now on Stitcher's Unrestrained Comedy Talk station. So get it! Stitcher is an award-winning provider of news and talk radio for your mobile phone, Stitcher SmartRadio- The Smarter Way to listen to radio. Click on the Stitcher logo above or HERE to listen to us on Stitcher!

PISSED OFF is Now Available for iBooks

They're getting quicker about posting new books. I wasn't expecting this to pop up on iBooks for another week but low and behold, thanks to @Holgr for pointing out that PISSED OFF: Is Better Than Being Pissed On… is now finally available at the Apple iBookstore for just 99 cents!

 

How to Gift an Ebook

It's EASY to gift an eBook. Best of all, you can do it without having to wait in line or find a parking space. Watch this video to see how you can give a gift Kindle/Nook/iBooks/Kobo readers will love without the hassle of fighting the crowds this holiday season!

And if you're looking for some gift suggestions, may I suggest checking out some of my books for KINDLE, NOOK or iBOOKS?