Have Yourself A Scary Little Christmas!
We are enjoying unseasonably warm days this year, and haven't had too much of the white stuff decend upon our driveways. That's fine by me, I hate shovelling. Though I do hope it snows for Christmas Day and Christmas Day only. It sets the mood.
And the mood I foster around this time of year goes beyond good cheer…into….great trembling fear. That's right, there are scares to be found this holiday season. Thrill-seekers, I encourage you to follow my other, other blog, MOST-WANTED MONSTERS as Dawn Dalton and I celebrate all things diabolical and yet oddly festive. We took a brief hiatus in November to participate in the death-defying thing called NANO, but we've clawed our way back to the land of the living. Each week in December we'll feature the best of the worst things to fear this Christmas – starting tomorrow.
And as a stocking stuffer of sorts (while it's not the release of Second Skin that I'm all hepped up for) the ebook edition of UNDER MY SKIN is now available via Kindle and Nook. For the month of December it will be just .99 cents. Really, the world of ebooks and ebook marketing is quite terrifying for someone new at the game. My first novel – the one that took four years to write as I learned the mechanics of fiction – can be had for the price of a bad cup of coffee. Mind boggling.
I've decided to follow young adult fiction author, Arthur Slade's lead and blog about my experience on the .99 shelves of virtual bookstores. In January, the UMS ebook will bump back up to a normal sales figure and I'll be able to evaluate the success of it's cheapo introduction – which is, at its most basic level – an attempt to garner interest in Second Skin when it launches. Watch for those posts in the new year if you're interested in the results.
NOTE: if you haven't read Slade's series The Hunchback Assignments, you're missing out on some fantastic steampunk and fantasy storytelling based on the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Now go forth and have yourselves a scary little Christmas!
