Yep, all of my books (except for All the Young Warriors) are FREE for your Kindle today. Just today.
The Early Crap will be free until Tuesday.
Why? Eh, I dunno. Just curious, I suppose, to see what happens. Enjoy.
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06/22/2012
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THE BOOKS
THE STORIES
- "You Can Watch"
- "Vicarious Radiation"
- "To Hear Jesus"
- "The Black Hole of Luck"
- "Son"
- "Psycho Redneck Pick-up Truck Killing Spree"
- "My Worst Days"
- "My Best Friend's Girl"
- "Mothering"
- "Louder Gospel"
- "Javaphobia"
- "Everyone Grieves in a Unique Way"
- "Cramp"
- "Between the Rivers: David Goodis' Literary Life Out in the Cold" (an essay)
- "Backslide"
- "A Southern Gentleman Out in the Snow"
Recent Posts
- Why "Reasons To Quit" Hit a Nerve This Summer: Some Thoughts From a Crime Novelist
- Bullet Points (meaning: "I don't have to organize my thoughts")
- What's Wrong With Me? Nothing a Quiet Summer Can't Cure
- Bouchercon Update: Well, Sitting Out Another Year
- No More Snow
- ALL THE YOUNG WARRIORS now available on paper
- Some tweets I just tweeted...
- Yep, Here's a Perfunctory Blog Update, Y'all
- Regularly Scheduled Programming
- YELLOW MEDICINE free for Kindle: Done.
OTHERS
- GISCHLER
GUN MONKEYS, PISTOL POETS, SUICIDE SQUEEZE, SHOTGUN OPERA, GO GO GIRLS OF THE APOCALYPSE - DOOLITTLE
DIRT, BURN, RAIN DOGS, THE CLEAN-UP, SAFER - GUTHRIE
TWO-WAY SPLIT, KISS HER GOODBYE, HARD MAN, SAVAGE NIGHT, and SLAMMER - STELLA
JIMMY BENCHPRESS, CHARLIE OPERA, CHEAPSKATES, SHAKEDOWN, MAFIYA - BANKS
SATURDAY'S CHILD, DONKEY PUNCH, NO MORE HEROES - JORDAN
"Silence" (PWG 4/04), Editor of EXPLETIVE DELETED - SWIERCZYNSKI
THE WHEELMAN, THE BLONDE, SEVERANCE PACKAGE, and Marvel Comics Genius - $2 RADIO
Publisher of THE DRUMMER - HENDRICKS
MIAMI PURITY, IGUANA LOVE, VOLUNTARY MADNESS, SKY BLUES, CRUEL POETRY - BRUEN
THE GUARDS, THE DRAMATIST, PRIEST, THE WHITE TRILOGY - CRIDER
A MAMMOTH MURDER, DEAD SOLDIERS, A KNIFE IN THE BACK - MACLEAN
"THE REVENGE OF CARLO PULASKI" (PWG Sept/Oct 02), "LUCK AND A GUN" (PWG Jan/Feb 01), NEXT UP: BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES 2006 - RAP SHEET
Crime Fiction News - STORYGLOSSIA
Great stories, great magazine. - HARWOOD
JACK WAKES UP, Podcaster Extraordinaire of JACK PALMS 2: THIS IS LIFE, and JP3. - OUT OF THE GUTTER
The Modern Journal of Pulp Fiction and Degenerate Literature - JOHNSON
THE COLD DISH, KINDNESS GOES UNREWARDED, ANOTHER MAN'S MOCCASINS - CRIMEWAV.COM
Seth Harwood hosts a new podcast featuring the best of short crime fiction. - B. CLAY MOORE
writer of the comics HAWAIIAN DICK, '76, other groovy shit. - AYRES
MOSQUITO KINGDOM (screenwriter), "Morning After" PWG #3 - BARDSLEY
"Upper Deck" PWG #1, "Funny Face" STORYGLOSSIA Crime Issue, "Headquarters Likes Your Style" OUT OF THE GUTTER #5 Revenge Contest Winner - John C. Hamilton
Thriller/Horror e-book author - inspiringsound
- Keith C. Blackmore
Kindle Fantasy Author - R. Doug Wicker
Kindle Mystery Author - Swan Lake Samba Girl | Tonya Plank
Author of the legal thriller SWALLOW on Kindle - TERRIBLEMINDS: Chuck Wendig
Author of IRREGULAR CREATURES on Kindle. - Chris Holm
Author of 8 POUNDS on Kindle - Do Some Damage
Home of White, Weedle, Quertermous, Charbonneau, McLean, McFetridge, Stringer and Parker - Musings of an All Purpose Monkey
Elizabeth White's book review blog. - Spinetingler Magazine
- Frank Bill's House of Grit
I bow before the author of CRIMES OF SOUTHERN INDIANA and DONNYBROOK - SERGEANT ZERO
PulpTone! - You Would Say That, Wouldn't You?
Paul D. Brazil's online parlor. - McDroll....The Journey to a Perfect Life
Writer & Reviewer - Z. Constance Frost
Author of NO SHELTER for Kindle. - Kindle in the Wind
Features and Reviews of Kindle Books. - Spalding's Racket
Blog promoting Indie Authors on Kindle - KindleObsessed
Blog for Kindle reviews of great genre books - Bookhound's Den
Crime, Horror, Dark Stuff reviews. - Richard Thomas
Blog of Richard Thomas, neo-noir author of TRANSUBSTANTIATE - Evileye Books
- Crime Genre
J. Mark Bertrand's great new crime fiction blog. - Criminal-E
Allan Guthrie interviews crime writers with e-books. - AshEdit: Elaine Ash's Blog
- Say the Word (blog of Libby Fischer Hellmann)
- DAMIEN SEAMAN
Author of THE KILLING OF EMMA GROSS - Z7's Headquarters - Exciting Literature from the Ages.
Reviews & Thoughts from Tim Mayer
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HOGDOGGIN' Launch, May 09
- Book launch day for my 4th novel, HOGDOGGIN', at Once Upon a Crime in Minneapolis.
Lake Superior & Duluth, October 08
- What I did in October instead of going to Bouchercon like a good little crime writer.
THE WILD-ASSED TEXAS TOUR, SUMMER 08
- Smith & Gischler stampede across the Lone Star State.
Mayhem, May 08
- Once Again, Rocking the Mystery Conference Down in Omaha
JUNE 23rd, 2007
- The day Neil and Brandy got married.
Bachelor Skins Tournament
- My last days as a single man spent out on the links playing that sport I love/loathe so much.
Mayhem, May 07
- Once more into the Midlands. What were we thinking?
ALL DRUMMER ALL SUMMER, June & July 06
- Rampaging road trip across the scorched South
Mayhem, May 06
- Omaha, Nebraska, May 25 to 28. Always a blast.
Doolittle & Smith, Jan 06
- Two authors in search of an audience. Touring behind RAIN DOGS and PSYCHOSOMATIC
Have you ever number crunched sales numbers both before and after free copy giveaways? Do free downloads of one title lead to sales of other novels? Lee Goldberg wrote about doing that before, but that may have been a couple years ago.
The whole Kindle "free stuff" has been hashed over but I've not read the arguments or discussions. I'm all for free stuff and if authors want to do so then great. But, I prefer writers get paid for their work and keep writing things for me to enjoy.
Posted by: Gerard | 06/22/2012 at 09:39 AM
Yes, I prefer to get paid, too. In order to do that, I need more readers than I currently have who will be willing to buy my future books. In order to do that, I need them to know that I and my books exist. These free things help do that. They also help tell the Amazon engine that people who get these freebies have also bought other books, and people who bought those other books might also like mine, which by that time are back on sale.
And yes, the numbers crunch shows an increase after. Sometimes a big one, sometimes a small one, but mostly an increase (although thats going to disappear as more writers put more stuff up for free, but for now, were not quite there yet).
Of course, having someone else tell the readers I and my books exist is preferable (like a publisher or a PR person), but until such a time as that happens, Im gonna use whatever tools Ive got.
Posted by: A. N. Smith | 06/22/2012 at 09:44 AM