HAPPY NEW YEAR ... and please help yourself to a free book!
Building a mailing list has been one of the most rewarding things that I've done this year. It's a bit of a cliché (so forgive me...) but it makes the effort of writing new stories worthwhile to know that readers have found them and have enjoyed them enough to want to know about what I'm up to and when my new stuff is ready. I'm always happy to answer questions about the books or about writing in general and I've had some great conversations this year. Basically, it's all good and I want some more of it.
So one of the new things I'm going to be doing next year is putting a little rocket fuel into building the list. I'm going to offer a copy of my best-seller, THE BLACK MILE, to anyone who signs up. The book has a big soft spot for me: it's the first thing I published myself after leaving my legacy publisher and it's been a best-seller both when promoted and when on paid. Amazon asked me if I would put the book in their Twelve Days of Christmas promo over the festive period and (since you don't say no to Amazon) it is available at a special reduced price at the moment. When it comes out of promo in a few days it'll be back up to $5.99 again. The book has been downloaded many thousands of times since it's been available and I've been delighted with the positive reviews that it has received.
Here's the blurb:
London, 1940: the Luftwaffe blitzes London every night for fifty-seven nights. Houses, shops and entire streets are wiped from the map. The underworld is in flux: the Italian criminals who dominated the West End have been interned and now their rivals are fighting to replace them. Meanwhile, hidden in the shadows, the Black-Out Ripper sharpens his knife and sets to his grisly work.
Henry Irving is a disgraced reporter on a Fleet Street scandal rag. Genius detective sergeant Charlie Murphy is a fresh face in the Metropolitan police, hunting corrupt colleagues but blinkered by ambition and jealousy. His brother, detective inspector Frank Murphy, searches frantically for his runaway daughter, terrified that she will be the killer's next victim.
As the Ripper stalks the terrified streets, the three men discover that his handiwork is not quite what it seems. Conspirators are afoot, taking advantage of the chaos to settle old scores. The murders invade the lives of the victims and victimizers on both sides of the law, as everyone is sucked deeper and deeper into Soho's black heart.
Based on a little known true story, The Black Mile is a rollercoaster ride of a novel that was previously the most downloaded novel on the Kindle Store.
If you enjoy the thrillers of James Elroy, Peter James and Dennis Lehane, you'll love THE BLACK MILE.
If you'd like a copy of THE BLACK MILE then just sign up at this link:
http://eepurl.com/Cai5X
I will email you back and you can then let me know whether you would prefer a PDF, .mobi (for Kindle) or .epub (for anything else). If you don't know how to sideload a file to your eReader, let me know and I'll you send a tutorial.
Happy new year to one and all.
Best wishes,
Mark
So one of the new things I'm going to be doing next year is putting a little rocket fuel into building the list. I'm going to offer a copy of my best-seller, THE BLACK MILE, to anyone who signs up. The book has a big soft spot for me: it's the first thing I published myself after leaving my legacy publisher and it's been a best-seller both when promoted and when on paid. Amazon asked me if I would put the book in their Twelve Days of Christmas promo over the festive period and (since you don't say no to Amazon) it is available at a special reduced price at the moment. When it comes out of promo in a few days it'll be back up to $5.99 again. The book has been downloaded many thousands of times since it's been available and I've been delighted with the positive reviews that it has received.
Here's the blurb:
London, 1940: the Luftwaffe blitzes London every night for fifty-seven nights. Houses, shops and entire streets are wiped from the map. The underworld is in flux: the Italian criminals who dominated the West End have been interned and now their rivals are fighting to replace them. Meanwhile, hidden in the shadows, the Black-Out Ripper sharpens his knife and sets to his grisly work.
Henry Irving is a disgraced reporter on a Fleet Street scandal rag. Genius detective sergeant Charlie Murphy is a fresh face in the Metropolitan police, hunting corrupt colleagues but blinkered by ambition and jealousy. His brother, detective inspector Frank Murphy, searches frantically for his runaway daughter, terrified that she will be the killer's next victim.
As the Ripper stalks the terrified streets, the three men discover that his handiwork is not quite what it seems. Conspirators are afoot, taking advantage of the chaos to settle old scores. The murders invade the lives of the victims and victimizers on both sides of the law, as everyone is sucked deeper and deeper into Soho's black heart.
Based on a little known true story, The Black Mile is a rollercoaster ride of a novel that was previously the most downloaded novel on the Kindle Store.
If you enjoy the thrillers of James Elroy, Peter James and Dennis Lehane, you'll love THE BLACK MILE.
If you'd like a copy of THE BLACK MILE then just sign up at this link:
http://eepurl.com/Cai5X
I will email you back and you can then let me know whether you would prefer a PDF, .mobi (for Kindle) or .epub (for anything else). If you don't know how to sideload a file to your eReader, let me know and I'll you send a tutorial.
Happy new year to one and all.
Best wishes,
Mark
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