Where to start?

If you guys are anything like me, I get confused when I'm interested in a new author and they've got more than, say, one book out. Where to start?

Well, I have nearly 30 current releases going, and I get some very confused readers who "have heard of me" or "are interested", but have no clue where to start. So I thought about that problem and while all the information is out there - blurbs and excerpts - it's never really in one place. And to access it, people have to be online to access publisher websites or Amazon/B&N or whatever place they go to for that information.

So I decided to make it easy and create the kind of little helper I wanted to see myself. And it was a few days' of work, so originally it was supposed to be a birthday present from me to you, but there's no way I'm waiting until 4th May to present this beauty.



Taster Volume I combines all my currently available releases with excerpts (always from the beginning, and usual several chapters) and blurbs. But what's even better, I've added some author commentary for each work to make it interesting even for people who've already read the books, and a chronological list of releases. This anthology is up to date - from Deliverance to No Place That Far, so roughly end-2009 to beginning of 2015.

You can get a PDF version, an epub and a mobi on my website here. I've done the conversions myself, so it won't be quite professional grade, but they seemed clean enough for me.

All in all, it's nearly 170,000 words or almost 500 pages. And needless to say, feel free to share the file with your friends, too. I hope you'll find it useful and entertaining.
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Published on March 28, 2015 10:40
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message 1: by Tessa (new)

Tessa Barding What a fantastic idea! This is an amazing thing to have done, it is so very helpful. I hate wading through piles of links and references and reviews and while amazon's 'look inside' feature is helpful to a certain extent, it only gives bits and pieces, and I have this strong dislike of their free reading samples. Ugh. So yeah, I've downloaded this and you bet I'm jumping right in. So THANKS for this very useful little giveaway. Well, not so little, really. But thanks!!!!


message 2: by Sofia (new)

Sofia great idea - downloaded :D


message 3: by Aleksandr (new)

Aleksandr Voinov Silvia - Me too! It's just annoying that so much link-hunting stands between me wanting to read something and finding out what kind of stuff I might enjoy, so I hope other authors follow. :) I do sample quite a bit from Amazon, but I still think that could be improved. I'm glad you find it useful!

Sofia - Great, thank you!


message 4: by Tara♥ (new)

Tara♥ This is so cool. Thank you so much!! xoxo


message 5: by Aleksandr (new)

Aleksandr Voinov Very welcome!


message 6: by Gigi (new)

Gigi What an excellent idea! THANK YOU!


message 7: by Lucy (new)

Lucy Oh wow this is wonderful, I'm especially interested in the author commentary. Thank you!


message 8: by Aleksandr (new)

Aleksandr Voinov You're very welcome!


message 9: by Vivian (new)

Vivian Looks wonderful. Thanks, Aleks.


message 10: by Aleksandr (new)

Aleksandr Voinov Welcome! :)


message 11: by Kelly (new)

Kelly Looks great! I'll be picking it up for the commentary. :-)


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