Back Again With A Giveaway (or Two)

Hello. Did you think I’d done a runner?

It’s a while since I’ve used the blog. Why? For a start off, I’ve been ill for the better end of two years, and its most marked effect has been through this last eighteen months or so. The problems are not particularly serious, but they are debilitating and they’ve been an absolute nightmare to bring into balance.

In addition, most of my blog output has taken the form of humour and is on video; “vlogging” as it’s known. If you want to catch up on my idiocy, you can do so on my Facebook timeline at:

https://www.facebook.com/dwrobinson3

I’m now starting up the blog again, and I’m using it today to bring you up to scratch on the various bits and pieces, mostly to do with my books.

Firstly, my publisher, Crooked Cat has moved all my books into Kindle Select. What difference does this make to you?

Well first, it means the books are exclusive to Amazon. It’s part of the deal. You can’t (legally) buy them from any other source. Tough for those people who don’t own a Kindle, right?

 

Well, no, actually, it isn’t. Amazon have a couple of apps, one for the computer, called Kindle for PC (or Mac) which you can download free of charge, and which allows you to read Kindle books on your screen.

 

 

They also offer Kindle for smartphone (android) again free of charge, and it’s the app I use to read e-books. So you see, it’s not necessary to own a Kindle to read Kindle books.

 

 

There are two advantages to Kindle Select. First, anyone who is a member of Amazon Prime can borrow books from the KUL library free of charge, and finally, authors and publishers can set a book’s price at FREE for a specific number of days per quarter. The terms and conditions surrounding these options can be found on the Amazon site.

So which of my titles are in Select?

The whole of the Sanford 3rd Age Club Mysteries. That’s fourteen mysteries for Joe and his pals to solve, from The Filey Connection to Trial by Fire. And there’s a fifteenth in production (but no firm publication date yet).  More on that when I have more news.

What else is in Select? Both the Spookies titles, the hard-boiled Croft/Millie works and finally, for lovers of sci-fi/horror, Voices.

What about my other efforts, The Midthorpe Mysteries and Flatcap?

Because these are largely experimental, I self-publish them and they are not in Amazon Select. But that doesn’t mean there’s no offer on them. Right now, you can download Fiagara Nights, the first Midthorpe Mystery and the book that introduced us to Raymond Baldock and Lisa Yeoman, absolutely free. It comes in any format of your choice, and there are no strings. Just click on the link.

Beyond that, if you want more, you can also get Bumped Off in Benidorm, the second Midthorpe Mystery, free of charge too. Just go to this page for the details.

Having settled my health issues, at least to the point where I can work, there are fresh titles in the pipeline and I hope to pick up where I left off a year and half ago. So why not subscribe to this blog and ensure you’re up to date with the news as it happens?