It Looks Like Someone Just Might Get a FIRE HD Tablet after all…

Well, the giveaway period for THE SEA TRIALS OF AN UNFORTUNATE SAILOR has ended and I am happy to announce that we gave away more than enough for us to hold the drawing for the Amazon FIRE HD Tablet…provided everyone who grabbed a free copy of the book writes a review and we have fifty (50) valid contestants entered into the drawing by 11:59PM (EDT), Saturday, April 4, 2015, that is.

Piece of cake, right?

Right?

Anyway, that will be the last Amazon Giveaway I will be able to do for a while, as I have ended my exclusivity with Amazon and from now will be selling my books on just about all major outlets, via Smashwords.

It’s nice to get back to Smashwords. I really dig the laid-back vibe they have. I like how they’ve positioned themselves as the David to Amazon’s Goliath. Besides, it seems the glory days for Indie Authors and Amazon are over and it is going to take all venues to find one’s market. We’ll see…

As you can tell, I reblogged my favorite Indie Author, Paul Xylinides’ review of The Sea Trials. I continue to encourage you to visit Paul’s sites – paulxylinides.com and theliteraryreader.com> – and to check out his writings. I’m certain you won’t be disappointed.

Thanks, Friends!

S.H.I.T. – Sure Happy It’s Thursday!

Originally posted on thefuturepoet:

Review of Kurt Brindley’s The Sea Trials of an Unfortunate Sailor

Paul Xylinides

Before I begin this review, let me first recommend to anyone whom it persuades to read The Sea Trials of an Unfortunate Sailor, that after doing so they further benefit themselves by looking again at their copy of Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor that I shall, however, quote from extensively. Kurt Brindley’s accomplishment should come into even greater focus when looked at through the lens of the nineteenth century classic novel.

Anyone who has ever experienced the injustice of being condemned by those who characterize their sensitivities in ways fundamentally at odds with their true identity will respond deeply to the travails of Kurt Brindley”s protagonist in The Sea Trials of an Unfortunate Sailor. From a tellingly different perspective the same fate befalls Melville’s hero. One cannot help but feel that there is a lot that is…

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