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August 16, 2017
Lizzie's Tale Free for 2 days
As part of my book launch of this book I have this updated ebook version of Lizzie's Tale free on Amazon for 2 days - starting Saturday 19th and finishing Sunday 20th August.
The book launch then follows at the Canberra Writers Festival National Library at 10 am on Sunday 27th August. I would love to see any Australian reader there but if you can't make it download an ebook copy to share in the event.
See link to event:
http://www.canberrawritersfestival.co...
Even better write a review and pass this on to friends. I will also be doing a couple events for this book in Sydney in September and would love any Sydney readers to come along.
The book launch then follows at the Canberra Writers Festival National Library at 10 am on Sunday 27th August. I would love to see any Australian reader there but if you can't make it download an ebook copy to share in the event.
See link to event:
http://www.canberrawritersfestival.co...
Even better write a review and pass this on to friends. I will also be doing a couple events for this book in Sydney in September and would love any Sydney readers to come along.
July 31, 2017
Smashwords Sale ending soon
Hello to the people on Goodreads who have recently downloaded my various books - particularly this Outback Noir series.
Thank you to you all who have assisted me to achieve over 1000 sales on Smaashwords with the vast majority in this series as part of the current summer-winter sale promotion.
It ends in less than 24 hours now so if you want to read one of my books grab it while free or discounted. Start with An English Visitor then go on from there at the link
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
Thank you to you all who have assisted me to achieve over 1000 sales on Smaashwords with the vast majority in this series as part of the current summer-winter sale promotion.
It ends in less than 24 hours now so if you want to read one of my books grab it while free or discounted. Start with An English Visitor then go on from there at the link
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
Book Launch - Lizzie's Tale
Just letting my various friends know that my next novel in the Old Balmain House Series, 'Lizzie's Tale' is having its book launch at the Canberra Writers Festival at 10am on Sunday 27th August before it goes on sale in local bookshops. - for anyone w.
ho has the chance to be in Canberra on this date I would love to see you there. Also please pass on an invitation to anyone else you know in this place. The link to this event is http://www.canberrawritersfestival.co...…
As part of this I have done an interview with Barbie Robinson for Canberra Community Radio ArtSound - Write On Program, which runs on Tuesday 2nd August about the first book 'Little Lost Girl" For anyone who wants to listen one can get it online at the following link http://www.artsound.fm/event/write-on...
I will also do a separate interview on the same program a couple weeks later about Lizzie's Tale.
Hope to see some of you there.
For those who want to look at the ebook version see the following link
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
ho has the chance to be in Canberra on this date I would love to see you there. Also please pass on an invitation to anyone else you know in this place. The link to this event is http://www.canberrawritersfestival.co...…
As part of this I have done an interview with Barbie Robinson for Canberra Community Radio ArtSound - Write On Program, which runs on Tuesday 2nd August about the first book 'Little Lost Girl" For anyone who wants to listen one can get it online at the following link http://www.artsound.fm/event/write-on...
I will also do a separate interview on the same program a couple weeks later about Lizzie's Tale.
Hope to see some of you there.
For those who want to look at the ebook version see the following link
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
July 16, 2017
Free dark ebook series
Free box set of my Australian Outback Noir Series for the next two days on Smashwords at https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
I would particularly love to get more Aussie readers of these books so feel free to share this post with other networks.
To date this series has done very well in US with more than 20,000 downloads however I have very few Australian readers.
So I really encourage you to download it for free and start reading - 5 books in one package should keep people going for a bit.
Also see Goodreads link to book
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
I would particularly love to get more Aussie readers of these books so feel free to share this post with other networks.
To date this series has done very well in US with more than 20,000 downloads however I have very few Australian readers.
So I really encourage you to download it for free and start reading - 5 books in one package should keep people going for a bit.
Also see Goodreads link to book
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
June 26, 2017
Smashwords Summer Winter Sale coming
For those of you who like free or discounted ebooks, Smashwords month long sale starts soon and runs for the month of July. It is a time when I stock up on books I want to read at bargain prices. Most of my books will be listed there at discounted rates too.
My suggestion is to use it as a way to discover a couple new authors in your favourite genre/s by searching within the Sub Categories - for example if you, like me, like Australian authors then begin with
Fiction>Literary Collections>Australia and dig into the various sub categories e.g mystery and suspense, romance or whatever takes your interest. It is amazing what you can find!
My suggestion is to use it as a way to discover a couple new authors in your favourite genre/s by searching within the Sub Categories - for example if you, like me, like Australian authors then begin with
Fiction>Literary Collections>Australia and dig into the various sub categories e.g mystery and suspense, romance or whatever takes your interest. It is amazing what you can find!
May 8, 2017
Free ebook schedule for June 17
Hi all
With my recent giveaways I have a huge number of people (far more than I can count) listing these books on their To Read Lists.
I know that some of you only read hard copy 'Print' books and this is not for you though Amazon does sell print copies of some of my books. (look them up on Create Space)
But for those of you who have made the jump to ebooks (you can read them on your Phone, iPad, computer as well as a Kindle, Nook or Kobo ereader), I wanted to let you know about the dates on which my ebooks are free on various sites. I really encourage downloads - I love to give them away but it also boosts my ratings leading to more sales!!
If you read and give a rating and or review that is even better but even if you don't please download anyway and read when you get a chance
So for the June 2017 my Amazon Giveaways will be as follows (I have given the link to each book site under its name (all dates are US dates)
- The Old Balmain House - Saturday 3rd June and Sunday 25th June at link
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MT9G1TF
- Little Lost Girl - Friday 16th June and Thurs 29th June at link
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MSUCXL5
- An English Visitor -Sunday June 4th and Saturday June 17th at link
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NAUCCCH
Crocodile Man - Thurs 8th June and Friday 23rd June at link
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07253DHMJ
- The Girl and the Crocodile - Wed June 21st and Friday June 30th at link
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NAUCCCH
In addition my first in series books 'Just Visiting', 'The Old Balmain House' and memoir Children of Arnhem's Kaleidoscope are permanently free on Smashwords at the following link and again downloads are encouraged.
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/vi...
Please pass on this offer to others you know who may be interested.
Happy reading for those who do download
Regards Graham
With my recent giveaways I have a huge number of people (far more than I can count) listing these books on their To Read Lists.
I know that some of you only read hard copy 'Print' books and this is not for you though Amazon does sell print copies of some of my books. (look them up on Create Space)
But for those of you who have made the jump to ebooks (you can read them on your Phone, iPad, computer as well as a Kindle, Nook or Kobo ereader), I wanted to let you know about the dates on which my ebooks are free on various sites. I really encourage downloads - I love to give them away but it also boosts my ratings leading to more sales!!
If you read and give a rating and or review that is even better but even if you don't please download anyway and read when you get a chance
So for the June 2017 my Amazon Giveaways will be as follows (I have given the link to each book site under its name (all dates are US dates)
- The Old Balmain House - Saturday 3rd June and Sunday 25th June at link
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MT9G1TF
- Little Lost Girl - Friday 16th June and Thurs 29th June at link
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MSUCXL5
- An English Visitor -Sunday June 4th and Saturday June 17th at link
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NAUCCCH
Crocodile Man - Thurs 8th June and Friday 23rd June at link
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07253DHMJ
- The Girl and the Crocodile - Wed June 21st and Friday June 30th at link
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01NAUCCCH
In addition my first in series books 'Just Visiting', 'The Old Balmain House' and memoir Children of Arnhem's Kaleidoscope are permanently free on Smashwords at the following link and again downloads are encouraged.
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/vi...
Please pass on this offer to others you know who may be interested.
Happy reading for those who do download
Regards Graham
May 3, 2017
The Value of Readers
As an author I love readers. They are the people who bring appreciation to my work and whose pleasure is the most important motivation to my writing.
However I often hear other authors bemoan there is no money to be made from writing, that free and discounted books are spoiling it for everyone, and that there is something wrong in not buying the books you read at a reasonable price.
While I would love everyone to pay a top price for my work this idea sort of misses the point.
It does not value the time the reader puts in of their own. If a reader chooses to read one of my 70,000 word novels they are likely to invest at least 10 hours of time, that they have chosen to spend on this, not something else. Sure I hope they enjoy the use of this time, but this is secondary.
If I choose to spend ten hours of my time doing something that ten hours has a real value - I could use it to work on something else that has a value, I could do a paid job, I could make a piece of furniture or do a painting I love, I could go and see a movie.
So, even if I only value my time at ten dollars an hour then this time is worth at least $100. I can buy a lot of other things for $100.
So the idea that reading my free book comes at no cost is just silly - in fact a reader would spends many hundreds if not thousands of dollars reading all the words in the books I have written.
I know because this is what it costs for me to pay an editor to read them.
Of course I would love for all my readers to pay me to read my books say $5,00 per book. But even if they don't I think I am a clear winner, i have got them to expend hundreds of dollars worth of their valuable time in reading my words, and often they then encourage others to do the same multiplying the value.
So even if I have ten thousand free downloads of a book, (which some of my better selling books have managed) I think I am a winner - that's a million dollars of other peoples time spent on reading something by me.
If I could monetise just 1% that is a useful amount - it would let me pay more struggling people in the industry for their services.
Of course I am a lucky one. I have a well paid job outside of writing and hence don't really need the little part of my income that book sales contribute, welcome though it is.
But even if I got nothing other than the pleasure of satisfied readers I still think I wold be a clear winner. At least that's what I tell myself every time I wish I got paid more for my books!!
Happy reading and thank you to all my long suffering and loyal readers!!!
However I often hear other authors bemoan there is no money to be made from writing, that free and discounted books are spoiling it for everyone, and that there is something wrong in not buying the books you read at a reasonable price.
While I would love everyone to pay a top price for my work this idea sort of misses the point.
It does not value the time the reader puts in of their own. If a reader chooses to read one of my 70,000 word novels they are likely to invest at least 10 hours of time, that they have chosen to spend on this, not something else. Sure I hope they enjoy the use of this time, but this is secondary.
If I choose to spend ten hours of my time doing something that ten hours has a real value - I could use it to work on something else that has a value, I could do a paid job, I could make a piece of furniture or do a painting I love, I could go and see a movie.
So, even if I only value my time at ten dollars an hour then this time is worth at least $100. I can buy a lot of other things for $100.
So the idea that reading my free book comes at no cost is just silly - in fact a reader would spends many hundreds if not thousands of dollars reading all the words in the books I have written.
I know because this is what it costs for me to pay an editor to read them.
Of course I would love for all my readers to pay me to read my books say $5,00 per book. But even if they don't I think I am a clear winner, i have got them to expend hundreds of dollars worth of their valuable time in reading my words, and often they then encourage others to do the same multiplying the value.
So even if I have ten thousand free downloads of a book, (which some of my better selling books have managed) I think I am a winner - that's a million dollars of other peoples time spent on reading something by me.
If I could monetise just 1% that is a useful amount - it would let me pay more struggling people in the industry for their services.
Of course I am a lucky one. I have a well paid job outside of writing and hence don't really need the little part of my income that book sales contribute, welcome though it is.
But even if I got nothing other than the pleasure of satisfied readers I still think I wold be a clear winner. At least that's what I tell myself every time I wish I got paid more for my books!!
Happy reading and thank you to all my long suffering and loyal readers!!!
April 16, 2017
Grief and New Life
I have just read a lovely post on a friend's blog about dealing with grief that I thought I would share - see link
https://goodgrief60.wordpress.com/201...
https://goodgrief60.wordpress.com/201...
March 19, 2017
Free ebooks
For those (more than 2000) who have put my books on your to read lists in the last month I just wanted to let you know if you are ebook readers that my memoir and first books in series are free on most ebook sites (e.g Amazon, Kobo, Barnes and Noble, iBooks etc)
My preferred site for downloads is Smashwords (though all sites are good) and the first book in each series is available at the following link
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
My preferred site for downloads is Smashwords (though all sites are good) and the first book in each series is available at the following link
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
March 15, 2017
Making sense of my books
For those who are following my books I just wanted to let you know that the first of the books in each of my series 'Crocodile Spirit Dreaming' and 'Old Balmain House' are currently free with most major ebook retailers - eg Smashwords, iBooks, Kobo and Amazon.
So if you are looking for some authentic Australian stories (that is what I write) I would encourage you to download a free ebook copy.
While I am happy for you to get them anywhere my own preference is to get ebooks from Smashwords as they give the best return to authors. The link to my books on Smashwords is
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/vi...
And I would really love to hear your comments or suggestions for improvement as I am steadily revising these books and it helps improve the enjoyment of other readers
Regards
Graham Wilson
So if you are looking for some authentic Australian stories (that is what I write) I would encourage you to download a free ebook copy.
While I am happy for you to get them anywhere my own preference is to get ebooks from Smashwords as they give the best return to authors. The link to my books on Smashwords is
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/vi...
And I would really love to hear your comments or suggestions for improvement as I am steadily revising these books and it helps improve the enjoyment of other readers
Regards
Graham Wilson
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