Monster hunters, spaceships and comedy of manners by indie author Mel Dunay
Hello! In the spirit of the holiday season, I have included the sample chapter for Marrying A Monster in Dean F. Wilson’s Science Fiction & Fantasy Instafreebie giveaway. Here you can find free fiction in all lengths from samples like mine, to stories and full length ebooks.
There is also a ti-ein promotion for $0.99 Kindle ebooks (yes, I’m in that too!) If you like freebies and you like these genres, please check it out! The sales and giveaways run through November 20.
Hello, everyone! Here in the USA, we are transitioning out of spooky candy overload and preparing for turkey meat overload. (Any comments mentioning the election will be marked as spam. Doesn’t matter who you voted for. I don’t care, and I am not kidding).
NaNoWriMo wordcount as of right now is around 17200, but since I’m aiming for 19000 by end of today, I need to get busy.
The big news is that I signed up with the Italian ebook aggregator Streetlib, and Marrying A Monster is now live (in English) on on the French retailer FNAC, and on the Mexican retailer Librerías Gandhi. It will soon be live on Google Play, Overdrive and a number of Italian, Spanish, Polish, Turkish and Russian ebook vendors and library services. I also have my own e-bookstore on the streetlib website.
I joined the Streetlib aggregator primarily to distribute my books to Google Play. Google Play is notorious for slashing prices on ebooks without the publisher’s permission, and Streetlib only allows publishers and self-publishers to set a single price for all the channels they distribute to.
The result is that the default price for my books through the vendors that Streetlib aggregates is going to be on the high side, except in cases where the retailer takes the initiative to discount them or price-match to Amazon (as FNAC and Gandhi seem to be doing).
Patty Jansen has pulled together over a hundred and eighty books that are on sale in these genres (Science Fiction Fantasy, and Fantasy Romance), and sorted them by store: basically, you click here or on the image above, and then beneath the banner you click on the store symbol of your choice (Amazon, Nook, Kobo, etc) and then you can see the books available in each store. I’m very grateful to Patty for doing all this work, and very glad for the chance to participate in this sale, which runs today and tomorrow.
I booked a promotional slot for today with Ebookasaurus, another website which keeps its readers informed of all the best sales available on ebooks. This one covers multiple stores, so if your preferred store is Nook, iBooks, Kobo, etc, they have you covered. Feel free to check them out!
In other news: National Noveling Writing Month 2016 has begun! Once more into the breach, my friends….
Wooo! Lots of scary savings in this cross-genre promotion hosted by David Neth. Nearly 60 authors, including myself, have Halloween-friendly books in a variety of genres on sale for $0.99, from now until Halloween.
We have everything from ghosts to zombies to (a lot of) vampires to a couple of shifters, including Marrying A Monster. (Yes, there is a shifter in Monster, but he is more like the Incredible Hulk than Jacob from the Twilight books or Curran from Magic Bites and its sequels). David has been kind enough to sort the books by creature.
Anyway, with so many different authors and monsters on hand, I’m sure there’s something in there for everyone, so click here to check it out!
I have been giving away an abridged sample chapter of my new Paranormal Romance, Marrying A Monster, on Instafreebie. This is the last day of the giveaway, so grab it while you can. Just click here! Hope you enjoy!
I’m giving away an abridged sample chapter of my new Paranormal Romance, Marrying A Monster, on Instafreebie, right now. This is the second-to-last day of the giveaway, so grab it while you can. Just click here, and if you are not already an Instafreebie member, go through the steps to sign up.
MV Covers* is run by an artist who is stepping back from the world of premade book covers (where the author picks out a pre-created design, explains what text needs to go on it, and pays for the result) to focus on logo work. Due to this, she is listing all her remaining premades at $15 a piece (which is EXTREMELY inexpensive for the quality of work she does) and is willing to make fairly major changes for a fee. I found a cover that I liked (for Loving A Deathseer, Book 3 in the Jaiya Series), but the woman was showing a bit more cleavage than I felt comfortable with, and I wanted her eyes to be more visible. The final pricetag for having that done and the fonts changed to more or less match what you see on the ebook cover to Marrying A Monster, was $30.
*Note: like many book cover sites, may be NSFW depending on your office’s guidelines.
Sometime back, I booked a spot for Marrying A Monster on Digital Book Spot, a website which publicizes free and $0.99 e-books. I found it to be a very user-friendly and easy to read website, with lots of books that looked interesting, in every genre from thriller to romance. Click here to check the site out!
We’re at the midpoint of my ten-day Instafreebie giveaway! Just click here to snag an abridged sample chapter from my new paranormal romance Marrying A Monster!
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