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One Week Book Sale – Get ‘em while they’re hot. Or cheaper. Or whatever…

Hey look, it’s my annual Christmas Week book sale! I say annual not because I do this once a year, but because this week only happens once a year. So I’m borrowing the all-too-salesy “annual sale” tag an appropriating it for myself.

Every one of my full titles is now on sale through January 2nd, so if you’ve considered jumping into one or two, now would be a good time. I’ve done what I can to put them on sale through as wide a distribution network as I can, but there will be some exceptions, and for that I humbly apologize. As John Scalzi recently said, to paraphrase, most of my book sales and conversation happen within the border of the US, so as such most of my marketing takes place there as well. Meaning unfortunately in some cases, the price of one of my books in Botswana may not reflect the sale price, because I simply couldn’t get to it. Or the sale price on the Billy Mays Pocket E-Reader And Car Wash Kit is higher than on Kindle. Or the $.99 didn’t convert exactly to the same price in Dutch guilders. And in the case of Smashwords (where my Sony/Diesel distro lies), because of their absurdly slow processing time, I cannot do a limited-time price change there for fear it won’t trickle down to the Billy Mays device holders in time for the sale, or worse, trickle down weeks afterwards, then take weeks to fix.

And one final note: the Apple conglomerate saw fit to shut down their publishing arm for the holidays, and I didn’t make the cutoff, so all of the iBooks prices will be the same as last week. Sorry…

In other words, if you own a Kindle, Nook, or Kobo, you’re in luck! Gabriel: Zero Point is free (even on the iBookstore), Gabriel’s Redemption (book 1) drops to a whopping $.99, books 2 & 3 (Return & Revenge) drop by a buck, as does the complete trilogy. And my short story collection Wrinkled Shorts (like that name?) also drops to under a buck. I listed links below for Kindle/Nook/Kobo/iBookstore in the US; if you’re non-US hopefully those links take you to the appropriate non-US storefront. At least that’s the theory.