First item on the agenda: the “get it now before it goes out of print forever” free e-book giveaway for STUPEFYING STORIES #21 continues, from now through midnight on October 31st. If you want to read my complete eulogy for the book you can do so at this link, but if you just want to cut to the chase and download the e-book now, here’s the Amazon link.
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Hmm. Right now SS#21 is a Top Ten Bestseller, as it’s ranked #9 in Science Fiction Anthologies. A pity it never ranked that high while it was for sale. I’ll have more to say about that in a minute, but before then…
Second item on the agenda: we continue to tinker with and refine our sales presentations, as described in “A Tale of Two Book Covers.” Is anyone else as interested in this process and the lessons learned as I am? We have not yet changed the cover art for PRIVATEERS OF MARS, but after significant discussion we have changed the subtitle and description. The title and subtitle now read like this:
A Swashbuckling Tale of Space Pirates, Crazed Tyrants, and Deadbeat Clients
And I’ve changed the description from the original chunky block of dull gray text to this:
Meet Jacob Rhys: scoundrel, brawler, gambler, drunk, and licensed privateer working for the Free Mars State—until the authorities on Ceres seized his ship…
When shipyard engineer Valerie Morton found him a week later, face-down in a bar, she showed him the official report on what was discovered in his ship's cargo hold. As Rhys read the report he began tapping nervously on the grip of his sidearm. Then he suddenly stopped tapping and looked up at her.
"I'm getting my command crew back together," he said. "We are, handily, short an engineer. Do you have strong aversions to petty or grand larceny, extortion, card cheating, recreational and spiritual drug use, sexual practices that may involve recreational and spiritual drug use, and ubiquitous, often unnecessary violence?"
After a slight hesitation, Morton shook her head.
Rhys smiled. "Good. Welcome to my crew."
What happens next? Join Rhys and rest of his slippery crew and begin the adventure today! If you liked COWBOY BEBOP, you'll love PRIVATEERS OF MARS!
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If you’d like me to talk more about the process we went through to improve the book description I’d be happy to do so, but I’m afraid I’m more interested in talking about it than anyone else is in listening to me talk about it.
And oops, time’s up. More to follow…
~brb
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