Two early morning announcements

On By Luther M. SilerIn Writing

(Why am I not at work?  Boy’s got a doctor’s appointment.  Going in in the afternoon.)

ANNOUNCEMENT THE FIRST:  Benevolence Archives, Vol. 1 picked up another review yesterday, and while it was a four-star instead of the previous five-star I am just about equally happy with it.  The author– and I’m especially pleased that, at least for the moment, I have no idea who it is– discusses a couple of aspects of the story that I’m glad to see mentioned in a review; I feel like I’m seeing a sign that I’m doing something right here.  Whee!

ANNOUNCEMENT THE SECOND:  For one day only– just today– Benevolence Archives, Vol, 1 is free at Amazon.  The Kindle Select program I’m enrolled in gives me five of these free days for every ninety days the book is on sale, and since I haven’t sold anything in a couple of days (boo!) I decided to give a free day a try to see if I could coax a few extra copies out into the ecosystem out there.  So go forth and download!

(I am, if I’m being honest, more than a bit conflicted about this, and I almost didn’t mention it here at all.  I’ve spent a fair amount of time since the book went on sale on indie book author forums, and there is, to put it mildly, some debate about whether these free days are actually a good idea in the long term for authors.  Plus I sorta feel like I’m shitting on the people who already bought the thing.  I’m crossing my fingers and hoping that none of the folks who did shell out some cash feel the same way.  I may talk about this some more tonight– the boy’s doctor’s appointment is beckoning– but if you’ve been in a cash crunch lately or just been on the fence about buying, today might be a good day to jump.  Back to regular price tomorrow, probably with some details about how well it did.)

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6 thoughts on “Two early morning announcements”

  1. Pricing is such a tricky thing, I can understand your reservations about the free days. I will wait until it goes back up and buy it, I do like to support authors by actually paying money for their work. As a writer myself, I know how much hard work goes into a book, and you should get something for that! 🙂

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  2. Spoiler alert: it was me. Sorry to ruin your pleasure at the anonymity, but I felt it was important to let you know two things:
    1) I wasn’t expecting to like it at all. I’ve largely avoided fantasy and sci-fi except for authors I know for several years now because it started boring me, and I’d rather curl up with some literary fiction these days. But, solely based on your writing HERE I decided to buy it, and I’m rather glad I did.

    2) I don’t tend to pull punches where my reviews are concerned. Right after I reviewed your book on goodreads, I shat generously all over The Help (I fucking hate that book so much that I would deep freeze it, smash it into a million little pieces with a sledgehammer, package each individual piece in a box, set each box on fire, and grill all my dinners over it just so that I could say “I shit The Help”, in one form or another. I’m feeling flames, on the side of my face, just thinking about it) so what I wrote is what I genuinely thought and not just because I wanted to stroke your ego or help you boost your sales. Maybe hopefully that’ll be a side benefit?

    Anyway, good luck!

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    1. Oh, no worries– I figured whoever wrote it would show themselves, since you said you saw it from the blog– I’m just happy that I didn’t IMMEDIATELY know who it was. 🙂 Thanks so much for the review! (And hopefully you don’t mind that it went free for a day right after you bought it…)

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