I'M OPENING MY OWN ONLINE BOOKSTORE

A few days ago my third novel, Sinner's Cross, won the Literary Titan Gold Medal. This is the third accolade it has collected since I released it in October of last year, and in celebration of this feat, I am announcing the soft open of my online bookstore, Books By Miles Watson.

Granted, it isn't the catchiest title, but as an independent author who has to do his own advertising, I have to plug my name into everything I do -- at least for now.

The reason I am opening my own store for paperbacks is very simple. Ever since the debut of my first novel, Cage Life, I have received requests for autographed and dedicated copies of my novels. However, unless I'm at a book signing, which nowadays is not going to happen anyway, I've always had to refuse. The cost of ordering my own author copies from the printer, and then remailing them to readers, is simply prohibitive. Even now, with this arrangement, it may still be a financial drain, but I'm willing to give it a try regardless. One of the few genuine joys of being an independent author is that you get to put the personal touch on nearly everything you do. You get to connect with readers as much or as little as you desire, and to a great extent, captain your own ship.

For the afformentioned budgetary reasons, I cannot offer this service to foreign readers. This grieves me because I do sell a goodly number of books in Canada, the U.K., and Australia, as well as a few in continental Europe and even Japan. Perhaps one day I'll be able to work something out on that score, but for now only domestic shipping works, and that by media mail, which is very slow, but has the advantage of shipping to Alaska and Hawaii as well.

At present the bookstore features all six of my works which are in paperback. That means the novels Cage Life, Knuckle Down: A Cage Life Novel, and Sinner's Cross, and the novellas The Numbers Game and Nosferatu, as well as my short-story collection Devils You Know . I have discounted the books to prices somewhat lower than Amazon offers, but I can't promise buying from me will be cheaper due to your local taxes and modest but definite shipping costs. I can promise that they will be autographed and, if you desire, personalized within reason.

One final note. This is a SOFT opening. I have by no means worked out all the kinks in the system and the site is still very much a work in progress. Please be patient if you encounter bugs or glitches, but more importantly, please let me know if you did so I can fix the problem. A technological mastermind, I am not.

The bookstore is at...

https://www.mileswatsonauthor.com/

Hope to see you there.