I selfishly rue missing the "free" day, but I am jumping on $4.99, where I was mulling at $9.99.
Good luck with your sales!
Tom
I selfishly rue missing the "free" day, but I am jumping on $4.99, where I was mulling at $9.99.
Good luck with your sales!
Tom
It's okay, Parker, we'll nab a copy, but it will have to wait for a resumption of cash flow.C'mon, Arfin. Buy it for 5 bucks, and be glad you didn't get in on the ground floor for 10.
Parker
Things are . . . tight . . . just now.
Daughter: "Dad, how do I know who's a real friend?"
Me: "A friend is someone who cares how your life turns out."
"Truth is a dangerous thing: once found, you must never turn your back on it." -- gh@c2
"Look at it this way. If America frightens you, feel free to live somewhere else. There are plenty of other countries that don't suffer from excessive liberty. America is where the Liberty is. Liberty is not certified safe." -- gh@c2
I wish now I'd have started off with a free promo, just to give everyone here and at THR the freeby. It's all new to me...
A Kodiak Bear Mauling: http://www.amazon.com/A-Kodiak-Bear-...910559&sr=1-13
It was worth the extra to me to post review #0001.
Parker
The book is selling well. This morning it is listed at #67 within the "Nature and Ecology" category, which is pretty good considering that I'm competing against everyone from Izaak Walton to Carl Sagan. I suspect Izaak and Carl would hold me down and give me a wedgie for even comparing myself to them...
The book has jumped in sales each of the last two weekends, then slumped during the week. That must be the typical buying pattern, with people having leisure to peruse Amazon on their days off.
I don't have any way to promote the book, but sales tend to generate sales because people talk about books. I can only hope I cross some threshold where it generates its own "buzz".
I didn't have anyone to edit the book for me (English is a second language for my wife). I downloaded the book in Kindle format for myself and just looking at it in a new format allowed me to find many irritating little mistakes. Most of those mistakes are my own, but some are due to the change from Word to Kindle format. I've corrected those and re-uploaded it so it should be reasonably clean now.
Thanks again for all the encouragement!
A Kodiak Bear Mauling: http://www.amazon.com/A-Kodiak-Bear-...910559&sr=1-13
KB, I have access to a blogger whose site sees two-to-three million hits monthly.
She promotes books that she deems worthy of exposure, often done gratis for friends and allies (e.g. see her promo for Larry Correia's MHI Alpha). She says she would be happy to promote your book.
If you can provide the cover art and a blurb to go with it (any decent review will do), I can have that up today/tomorrow as a feature post as well.
Real life gets too little exposure nowadays, and your book is a refreshing change from the usual emo-culture opinion-as-fact crap that so pervades our information spaces.
PM or email at your convenience.
Daughter: "Dad, how do I know who's a real friend?"
Me: "A friend is someone who cares how your life turns out."
"Truth is a dangerous thing: once found, you must never turn your back on it." -- gh@c2
"Look at it this way. If America frightens you, feel free to live somewhere else. There are plenty of other countries that don't suffer from excessive liberty. America is where the Liberty is. Liberty is not certified safe." -- gh@c2
I'm almost finished with it.
You'll have a detailed and positive review from me soon.
[Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.]
Arfin, I sure appreciate it! PM sent.
A Kodiak Bear Mauling: http://www.amazon.com/A-Kodiak-Bear-...910559&sr=1-13
Finished the book (awesome!). Left a review. I hope sales climb like crazy.
Who do you want to play the young you in the movie?
Regards,
Tom
Angelina Jolie?
A Kodiak Bear Mauling: http://www.amazon.com/A-Kodiak-Bear-...910559&sr=1-13
Naw, Angelina would kick that bear's butt. Maybe somebody more sensitive and tender, like Steven Seagal....
Paul
People have some respect for the complexity of technology. But almost every ignorant fool thinks he understands money and economics.
Well, Steven has all the emotional depth and contextual concentration, but he doesn't look that great with his shirt off anymore. The closing chapter slaughter scene where I ride on the back of a two ton bear into the Homeland Security camp beheading people with a chainsaw needs somebody that looks good sweaty and shirtless, thus Angelina...
That scene isn't in the book, but I'm tossing it into the screenplay which I'm currently working on.
A Kodiak Bear Mauling: http://www.amazon.com/A-Kodiak-Bear-...910559&sr=1-13
New Cover Art?
A Kodiak Bear Mauling: http://www.amazon.com/A-Kodiak-Bear-...910559&sr=1-13
You bad, bad person!The closing chapter slaughter scene where I ride on the back of a two ton bear into the Homeland Security camp beheading people with a chainsaw needs somebody that looks good sweaty and shirtless, thus Angelina...
I have almost choked to death while laughing helplessly!
[Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.]
You sure look cool in sideburns, but there's something wrong when your hat is taller than your gun barrel is long...
Maybe it's just me.
Parker
It's my new concealment hat. This is just a prototype, but the production model will be capable of carrying a Springfield Socom with 12 mags, a Browning Hi Power with 12 Mags, seven days of MRE packets, a lighter, a change of underwear, a flashlight, a roll of toilet paper, a Kukri, a parachute, an attorney and two aspirin tablets.
It will retail for between $42,500 and $76,500 depending on the quality of attorney you choose.
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A Kodiak Bear Mauling: http://www.amazon.com/A-Kodiak-Bear-...910559&sr=1-13
You think with an attorney involved, 2 aspirin are gonna be enough? I'd double up on that.
Does the lighter have 6 feet of duct tape wrapped around it? If so, I'll start saving up.
Parker
Two aspirin my eye! Will 12 mags for the Browning be enough with a lawyer involved?You think with an attorney involved, 2 aspirin are gonna be enough?
“Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.”
- G. K. Chesterton
The lawyer has duct tape in his pocket along with more typical attorney stuff like the bloody heart of a virgin ripped from her living chest, a stiletto, the broken dreams of his parents, a copy of GQ, etc.
A Kodiak Bear Mauling: http://www.amazon.com/A-Kodiak-Bear-...910559&sr=1-13
(rofl)
[Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.]
KB - I did enjoy the book immensly, suggested that my attorney (ex- Army Ranger) should read it - but no Kindle! Now what? I was surprised at the described lushness of Kodiak Is., as Bristol Bay is as featureless as the near side of the Moon! The closest I came to a bear in Alaska, was a partially eaten seal carcass on the beach off of Egegik. A good read, and an appreciation of the big bears - checking the action on my 12 gauge!
There will eventually be a paper copy. I can't tell you when that will happen, but maybe late summer or fall...?
A Kodiak Bear Mauling: http://www.amazon.com/A-Kodiak-Bear-...910559&sr=1-13
Buy another copy, and print out the book and have it bound? Some hackers probably have already 'liberated' A Kodiak Bear Mauling.I did enjoy the book immensly, suggested that my attorney (ex- Army Ranger) should read it - but no Kindle!
Scratch that. I believe there are legit shops that will print you any ebook on demand.
[Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.]
In progress reading it now.
Excellent verbal portraiture of the milieu.
You gotta watch that. Folks are gonna wanna move in next door.
Minor punctuation glitches. So far nothing major.
Daughter: "Dad, how do I know who's a real friend?"
Me: "A friend is someone who cares how your life turns out."
"Truth is a dangerous thing: once found, you must never turn your back on it." -- gh@c2
"Look at it this way. If America frightens you, feel free to live somewhere else. There are plenty of other countries that don't suffer from excessive liberty. America is where the Liberty is. Liberty is not certified safe." -- gh@c2
Just ordered a Kindle Fire so look forward to reading it. Be certain to put in for a commission. Your story sold it.
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