A helping hand

Just because something is entertaining to write, doesn't automatically follow that it will be entertaining to read.
The Colony was nothing but fun to write, for two distinct reasons. Firstly I enjoyed viewing events in the story from the perspective of a range of contrasting characters. Secondly, it was rewarding to make the evil in the story manifest in a physical creature I think gruesome, formidable and quite plausible in the way it came to exist.
Early feedback suggests that readers here are enjoying the novel. That's gratifying, obviously.
But here's the real point of this blog post.
Anyone who likes it - anyone who doesn't, for that matter - would be doing me a huge favour if they could review the novel on Amazon.
I've never gone in for sock-puppetry (reviewing my own books under a pseudonym) and since The Colony is self-published, the only kind of publicity it's going to get comes from my readers. That can be word of mouth or it can be reader reviews and believe me, I'm genuinely grateful for either.
I deliberately made The Colony a relative bargain to buy as a download. Bringing it to the attention of the wider book-buying public, however, requires a bit of help...