With all the nice things happening lately, it’s time for...

With all the nice things happening lately, it’s time for a modest celebration… time for another giveaway.

Thoughts crossed my mind about giving away a sports car or an expensive gold watch, but mercifully those extravagant thoughts were fleeting and soon lost in the mists of time. (Ever check what authors earn from their books? Brutal!)

So, I thought of something even better! Free copies of my novel, The Maidstone Conspiracy will be given away via the readers’ website called, ‘Goodreads’. Now isn’t that even more exciting than a sports car or a watch?  Okay, don’t answer.

To enter the draw, here’s all you have to do:

Click on this link (https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/170818-the-maidstone-conspiracy) and follow the instructions.

Free copies of The Maidstone Conspiracy will be going to five lucky winners after the draw ends on March 1. ‘Goodreads’ conducts the draw and notifies the winners. After that, Goodreads sends me the names and I arrange for copies of The Maidstone Conspiracy to be sent out to each of the lucky winners.

Hope you’ll be enticed by the blurb on the back cover:

Paul and Anne Winston are swept up in a storybook romance… until they face death at the hands of an unknown assassin … and a battle to preserve the massive business empire they’re creating.  The Maidstone Conspiracy is a gripping murder mystery artfully blended with a tantalizing love story. Woven into the breathtaking twists and turns of this action-packed adventure are unexpected betrayals and enticing international intrigue… leading to a surprise ending.

You may recall The Maidstone Conspiracy was honored recently in a world-wide poll of readers. It was tied for third place for Best Mystery Novel of 2015. The poll was conducted by the non-profit website Preditors & Editors (‘Preditors’ is deliberately spelled wrong. Someone thought it was clever.) 

In another Goodreads draw last year I also gave away copies of Encounters With Life — Tales of Living, Loving & Laughter. It was voted Best Short Story collection in the open category in the P&E poll. And my debut novel The Ultimate Threat, also my debut giveaway, was very successful. Voters in the P&E readers poll were kind enough to place The Ultimate Threat second for Best Thriller Novel of 2015.

These giveaways have attracted so much interest (almost 1,400 entered the draw for The Ultimate Threat) I wish Goodreads would allow repeat giveaways. No chance. They’re so popular there’d be an even longer lineup for giveaways. But, please stay tuned here: there will be giveaways on Amazon soon for all three books.

These giveaways are a modest way of saying thank you for all the support you’ve given me, and of course they’re a great way to promote interest in the books. It’s a beast of a war out there, competing with an estimated 300,000 new books that hit the market every year. Yep, that’s why Amazon has more than 6 million books in its catalog.

But, hey, you know something? Despite all those daunting odds, I can’t imagine enjoying anything more at this stage of my life than writing. I’ve much to be thankful for, and YOU top that list!

Have a great day — and don’t forget to enter the Goodreads draw! Here’s the link again: https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/170818-the-maidstone-conspiracy.