Bit late
with this, but it’s still the first month of the new year. Happy New Year all!
As usual,
remember, Alyssa can be purchased at Amazon.co.uk HERE
and at Amazon.com HERE
So, a lot
has been happening in the last few months.
With book 1
out and launched, I spent most of the last few months of 2021 pitching Alyssa
and hoping for sales. I did indeed get
sales but not as many as I had hoped.
Still, I learned a lot.
All of
January I ran a series of Amazon free book deals for all 3 of my other books. I
likewise advertised on Facebook and A LOT on Twitter.
The results
were mixed.
On the one
hand, I sold over 200 ebooks (as in they were picked up free.) And also a few
people downloaded my books on kindle unlimited, reading well over 500 pages. Additionally, my work on Twitter raised my
follower count to nearly 4400. And this
time, not all of them were other authors!
But so far
I’ve only seen 1 ebook purchased and no copies of Alyssa seem to have sold yet.
I had hoped that purchases of the other books would in turn make people curious
about book 1. Still learning experience.
I intend to
use February to concentrate solely on pitching Alyssa, but also, I hope to
write book 5.
Yes, book 5
is officially being written! I have a
new idea on an old story plan and am now modifying and improving it. A couple of thousand words already.
If I can
maintain momentum, I hope to release it sometime toward the end of 2022 but I will
see how things go.
Anyway, that’s
my brief blog update.
Take care
all of you.
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.
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!
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!
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
