Tim Arnot - Flick Carter #1: FREED! Showing 1,251-1,300 of 1,656

[Tim]

Did a Costas run a bit earlier (massive queues cos of the Remembrance parade) Rather disappointing that it's not even the middle of November and they've got lights up, stupid elf costumes and that awful "music" playing. :(

[Kath]

Generally speaking, I enjoy Christmas. It's a necessary midwinter festival. If I were King of The World I'd have it banned till the weekend before Dec. 25th, though. Then you'd appreciate it more.

[Tim]

I'd definitely enjoy it more if we hadn't been subjected to two months of it already!

There's a new sign on the edge of town I saw today, apparently they're building a "Drive-thru Costa" Umm...

[David]

A drive through Costa has appeared near us. I only drive past. Coffee is disgusting and I'm not paying that price for tea. Seems a bit dangerous too, hot drinks and driving.

I'm all for Christmas being one week only. Can we do the same with winter (perhaps three weeks) and extend summer?

[Tim]

I'm all in favour of coffee, but with the quality of drivers on our roads, giving them a hot cup of the stuff to spill over themselves while driving can only add to the accident statistics, surely.

Now, If I had the money, I could easily embrace the nomad lifestyle and head south for the winter...

[David]

When I have sold enough books I too shall be following the sun. Allas, it will not be any time soon.

[Jim]

Kath wrote: "Generally speaking, I enjoy Christmas. It's a necessary midwinter festival. If I were King of The World I'd have it banned till the weekend before Dec. 25th, though. Then you'd appreciate it more."

Christmas actually starts on the 25th of December and lasts for twelve days
Before that, it's just Advent

[David]

Try telling that to shops and advertisers.

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Christmas starts earlier in garden centres than in other parts of the universe.

[Tim]

Coming soon to a kindle near you...

[Tim]

"As binding as if it came from the king herself."

I Kinda wish I'd thought of that 5 or 6 books ago, instead of in a fevered nightmare! Ah well, another series maybe...

Look out for the cover reveal for Keble Caper, coming soon. :)

[Tim]

Got a great review for Hunted on Oxford's Daily Info:

"Hunted is the second part of the Flick Carter series by Oxfordshire author Tim Arnot. The story takes place in a post-oil, post-information-age England, where most of the population have returned to pre-industrial subsistence living. The heroine is 17-year-old Felicity ‘Flick' Carter, who is struggling to rebuild her life after returning to the village of Faringdon following the events of Book 1 (Wanted). Haunted by the loss of her family, and the deaths of two men she was forced to kill in self-defence, Flick's only solace comes in bottle after bottle of the local rotgut. Once more driven from her home, she finds herself desperately trying to keep one step ahead of an assassin who is killing everyone in his way to get to her.

"Hunted picks up right where Wanted left off in terms of pace and excitement, as the reader is pulled along in Flick's wake. The book is certainly a page-turner, with Flick catapulted from one misadventure to the next. In fact, there are places where the action perhaps rushes by a little too fast; the section covering Flick's unwanted military training, for example, is one of the most enjoyable parts of the book, but seems to be over much too quickly. Flick is such a likeable character, however, that you are always rooting for her no matter how quickly she lurches from one potential disaster to another.

"Hunted is aimed at the ‘young adult' age range (12–18), and parents should be aware that the book does contain some violence and occasional swearing.

"Overall, Hunted is a very strong follow-up to Wanted, the author's debut novel, and even feels a little more polished than its predecessor. It comes highly recommended, and I am very much looking forward to seeing how Flick's story continues."

http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/reviews/fe...

:D

[David]

nice one.

[Kath]

I'm looking forward to seeing how Flick's story continues too!
Excellent review. Bet you're chuffed.

[Tim]

Me too ;)

[Rosemary (grooving with the Picts)]

Nice review

[M.T.]

Sweet! I am looking forward to it too. May get a chance to do a bit more reading over Christmas.

Cheers

MTM

[Tim]

WANTED and HUNTED are both 99p from now until the new year.


Meet Flick Carter. She's sixteen. They say she murdered her family. She didn't. They're gonna hang her anyway...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00I214QJU


There's a killer on the loose and he's after the Princess. Only seventeen year old Flick Carter stands in his way...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00MNSOT0O

Post-Apocalyptic Just Got British. And cheap!

[M.T.]

Hope you sell lots!

[Tim]

Thanks Mary :)

[Tim]

AND....



In the small town of Faringdon, a young girl is about to be hanged for a murder she didn’t commit. Socko Garret and Corporal Dan Barnes are sent on a mission to save the girl and investigate the crime. But when they arrive, things are not what they expected…

The new crossover novella, Socko's First Fire is FREE when you sign up to my new releases mailing list: http://eepurl.com/Bezk5 This ebook is exclusive to list subscribers and will not be available to buy for at least three months.

[M.T.]

It's a pity I've bought all of these already. I like a bargain. ;-)

[Tim]

M.T. wrote: "It's a pity I've bought all of these already. I like a bargain. ;-)"

Bet you don't have First Fire... ;)

[M.T.]

Good point. I will have shortly. ;-)

Cheers

MTM

[M.T.]

It says you're in Dodcot. :-)

[Tim]

We like to keep the postie on hie ties... ;)

[Tim]

Happy new year everyone!

It's the final day of the end-of-year 99p sale! Your LAST CHANCE to grab WANTED and HUNTED both together at their lowest ever prices!

Wanted: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00I214QJ...
Hunted: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00MNSOT0...

And Socko's First Fire is free when you sign up to my mailing list: http://eepurl.com/bacyez

[Anna]

Hope it's been a good run, Tim. Mine finishes today too so let us hope it doesn't all go quiet.

[Tim]

Thanks Anna. I'm 63 and 69 in the UK Dystopia chart at the mo :)



Mind you, it's done nothing in the US.

[Jim]

congratulations!

[David]

Nice one, Tim. You're not alone in not being able to crack that American market.

[Tim]

It's interesting, if I get one of the big US ads - ENT etc, I sell in the US and do nothing in the UK. This promo has been the opposite - no pay ads (I did get both books onto IBB though, across 2 days) & just FB, Twitter & the forums.

What was extra interesting: A few weeks ago they were talking about mailshots on the Self Publishing Podcast. and one thing they mentioned was "last chance email", and how they did so much worse when they forgot to send it. Since I'd never heard of that, I thought I'd give it a try, and sent out a bunch of "last chance" posts (you can see one above). I've sold far more today than on any other day in this promo! (Hot Tip!)

[David]

Noted :~)

[Anna]

Well done, Tim! My results are the reverse - few sales in the UK but plenty in the US, thankfully. I do try and send out 'last chance' posts too. Did we authors ever realize that there would be almost as much time spent on marketing as on writing?

[David]

I didn't. Naively, I thought I'd publish a book and people would buy it.

[Tim]

Hahahaha! Good one! :(

[Tim]

The paperback proofs of First Fire have finally arrived (yay!) Actually this is the second set, since the original proofs never arrived. When I emailed them about it, CS were good enough to ship a second set on 3 day priority (they were only printed on the 22nd). So good on ya CreateSpace. :)

This one is actually thick enough to get a title on the spine! (it's 100 pages & change). The ebook version is, of course, still free and exclusive to my mailing list - http://eepurl.com/bacyez to sign up.

So here's the obligatory blurry selfie...

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

I was wearing that t-shirt yesterday!

[Tim]

I thought it ponged a bit when I put it on ...

[Patti (baconater)]

Tim wrote: "I thought it ponged a bit when I put it on ..."

Hehehehehe!

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Tim wrote: "I thought it ponged a bit when I put it on ..."

Yeah, that's because I slept in it!

[Tim]

Explains much.

[Kath]

Excellent, Tim. It's looks the business. The book, not the t-shirt. ;)

[Tim]

The T-shirt didn't stay long - I got a call to a potential new client :)

[Anna]

Hope you net the client, Tim.

[Tim]

I was nominated by Andy Barrett -- the real life Socko -- to join the WIP blog tour, and so I've scribbled some stuff about what's coming... :)

http://www.tim-arnot.com/work-in-prog...

[Kath]

Great post, Tim, and so nice to be back with those characters.

[Tim]

Thanks Kath :)

[Tim]

I appear to have become secretary of my local writers group. I'm not going to say something churlish like "I wonder how that happened." I know exactly how it happened - I got voted in. Something clearly has gone wrong with the universe.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

You didn't fix enough votes.