Haldred Chronicles: the series expands!

For those who have been following my social media accounts, you’ll have noticed I’ve been busy.

So yeah, all my books are now available in both eBook and paperback

What happened back in the day is that I did have Alyssa, Kalla and Shade (my first 3 books) in paperback via Amazons ‘CreateSpace' platform. This worked for a spell, but there were 2 big problems.

First was that whilst the first 3 books were in paperback, my fourth book ‘Anna' was not. In addition, due to the way I formatted the books, they came out very big and expensive to produce. Hence, not a lot of them sold.

However, now all that has changed.

I have been able to use Amazon KDP to reformat the original paperbacks and also set up a paperback version of Anna.

As a result, all 4 books are now available alongside the recently republished Alyssa in a similarly size format.  And better priced.

 

You can now buy all 4 books in paperback and they will look pretty good on your book shelf!

Link to Amazon.co.uk HERE and link to Amazon.com HERE

Enjoy! 

Haldred Chronciles: two months on

Haldred Chronicles: Alyssa UK editions are HERE and US Editions HERE

In this blog I thought i'd talk about what worked and what didn’t in my efforts to get the word out about my book.




First to purchase were my wonderful friends and family, who bought a whole raft of electronic and paper copies. And also told people about it on Social media!




I then gave ‘Facebook advertising' a go with a few test posts that were promoted for short periods. The posts had a ‘buy it now' option which according to analytics was clicked a good few times. However, as to just how effective this was I won’t know until December when the first sales report comes through.




I also became highly active on Twitter and a few book advertising sites. I’ve now around 3700 followers on twitter but I’ve found that particularly social media avenue better for ‘writers encouragement' as apposed to selling books; the majority of my followers are other writers!




Finally, throughout the month of October I ran a series of ‘Free’ ebook promotions for my original books. The idea was to generate some renewed interest in the series. Certainly this seems to have worked as my Amazon ranking for all 4 books have improved a lot.




The question now is what to do next. I really want to have an official ‘book launch' but I’m also hoping to contact a few newspapers with press releases. I have a nice big list of additional advertising ideas, but the issue will be getting the time and resources to implement them!




Overall, I’m happy with how things have started off. The book is out, people are buying it and most importantly, people like it!




On to the next phase!

The world of Haldred Chronicles

So, what do you think?

The newly rewritten Haldred Chronicles: Alyssa has been out a few weeks, people have been buying it and reviews have been positive.

UK editions are HERE and US Editions HERE

So, time to write a little about the world and history.

Basically, Haldred Chronicles is set in a post war fantasy world. A vast all encompassing war called the Six Nations War had been raging for 50 years. Then, quiet suddenly, the six war weary nations (Magra, Tornar, Trima, Darnhun, Halnas and Argon) declared peace and their civilisations attempted to ‘get back to normal.’

Into this scenario the various Haldred Chronicles stories play out.  The over arching theme, and over riding concern for most of the characters, is maintaining this fragile peace. As might be expected, there are many individuals and factions interested and intent on restarting the war. They serve as the primary antagonists.

As for the protagonists, most of them belong or are associated with the ‘Council of Peace', an international organisation setup to monitor and maintain the peace by ‘any and all means necessary'. So whilst they might maintain the peace, they aren’t shy from doing so using violence themselves.

This setting also means that the series as a whole manages to cross multiple writing genres. It’s definitely ‘fantasy’ based, many of the stories taking place in an ‘urban fantasy' setting. Additionally, the stories have ‘Crime fiction' and ‘mystery’ aspects as the stories often involve crimes and their investigations in the pursuit of maintaining peace. Plus because it’s me, there is quiet a bit of humour thrown in.

Hope this is of interest to some of you.

Enjoy!

 

Haldred Chronicles Alyssa released!

It’s here at last

Well I’ve already been extensively advertising on social media, but thought I’d blog about this as well.

 

It’s out ladies and gentlemen. After 3 years of recruiting, editing, proof reading and production, my first book ‘Haldred Chronicles: Alyssa' is now out!

 

Get it HERE

 

Also, for those in America HERE

 

I hope over the next few months I’ll be posting a little more regularly, talking about the writing and design of Alyssa, what I’ve learnt about writing, the world the book is set in amongst other things.

 

But for now, please enjoy my book.

 

Take care