Sorry it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything. I’ve been working hard on a special project: The Clan Brennan Family Album, a collection of Clan Brennan stories as a Christmas gift to my family. As of now, it looks like that’s going to be going out on time, if only barely.
That means good news and bad news: the bad news is that all of the Clan Brennan stories will be taken down from the short story archive. Sorry folks, that’s the rules of the road at Amazon: if it’s going to be in Kindle Unlimited (and that’s the place to be these days), it has to be exclusive.
The good news is that all the Clan Brennan stories will be collected for convenient download or in a handsome paperback, with a brand new, never-before-seen story included! Coming soon!
It’s the Fall of 1994 in the small milltown of Belford, New York. The leaves are turning, the kids are going back to school, and the heat of Summer is giving way to a cool, misty season. It happens every Fall.
Only this Fall, people are disappearing into that mist. Some people are found torn apart, some people are found dead for no reason, and some people aren’t found at all. Other people see strange things in the mist: ghosts and campfire stories.
There’s something out there in that mist. Something old. Something that has slept for a long time, but has now woken up hungry. Maybe the people of Belford could resist it, but as the terrible Fall wears on, more and more of them start…changing. Acting bizarre and violent. In the end, only a small group of teenage defenders are left to make their stand.
Hey all! In conjunction with the Bookbub promotion starting tomorrow, I have dropped the price of Hometown to 99 cents! The promotion lasts 11/16 through 11/23, but you get the lowered price NOW. See how I take care of my fans? Of course, it was always free on Kindle Unlimited. And if you like it, consider checking out the rest of the library.
After literal years of trying, Hometownhas finally been accepted for a BookBub promotion!
For those who aren’t familiar, BookBub is one of the most well-known and respected book promoters on the internet. Hometownis about to get a BIG boost in visibility. Hopefully the rest of the library will get pulled along on its coattails a little bit.
The reason that’s good news for YOU is that Hometownwill be available for download for $0.99 from Saturday 11/16 through Saturday 11/23! That’s 1/3 regular price! If you missed the free giveaway back in September (sorry, Amazon only lets you do so many of those), here’s another chance to save some money. And of course, it’s always free on Kindle Unlimited.
Don’t forget to leave a review if you like it!
(And if you really like it, consider checking out the rest of the library – more books coming soon!)
As you all know, over Labor Day weekend I held a free giveaway of Hometown. It did well, at least by my standards, moving about 1,500 copies.
Then…it did better. I expected for it to sell a few copies after the “sale” ended, get a few extra page-reads on Kindle Unlimited…
(For those of you who aren’t familiar, The way Kindle Unlimited works is people buy a monthly subscription, then they’re able to read any books enrolled in Kindle Unlimited for free. All of the subscription fees go into one big pot, and the authors get paid based on how many pages get read from one of their books. All of my books are enrolled in it, because although I’ve only ever had a few dozen pages read a month and thus gotten pennies, more established authors say that it’s an even bigger earner than actually selling the books.)
And I have indeed had a few sales. A few more than I expected, but still only a few. But since my Labor Day Sale ended, I’ve had thousands of page-reads on Kindle Unlimited. I couldn’t understand it until I saw that little factoid above on Twitter. That’s when I understood: the Labor Day Sale is what brought me over the top: that was when I went from eighteen customer reviews to twenty-one. Who knew it could make such a difference? Not only am I getting more page-reads, my sales rank is skyrocketing in the Occult Fiction and Occult Horror categories, which of course helps boost visibility even more. There are several positive feedback loops going on here.
So what I am going to do is I am going to beg…I am going to beseech everyone who has read this book and who has enjoyed it to please…please put a review up on Amazon. The goal is to get those reviews up over fifty – hopefully well up over fifty – so that second level of visibility boost kicks in.
Please. If you’ve read it, if you liked it, post a review. It’s the single most important thing you can do to help me right now.
Well, I’m afraid the Hometown Labor Day Sale has come to an end, but I am glad to announce that it has been more successful than I dared to hope. Not only were there more free downloads than I dared to hope, but a lot of people are reading Hometown on Kindle Unlimited. And that, my friends, is something where the priced never goes up. If you’re on Kindle Unlimited, head on over to Amazon and read Hometown today, just as free as it was during the Labor Day Sale. Find out the truth of what happened that terrible Fall in Belford so many years ago.
And if you should happen to like it? Please leave a review. If you write a review on your blog or website or – I hardly dare hope – create some fan art, please contact me and I will be beyond happy to signal boost for you.
More than 1,000 copies moved in the first day of the sale alone! I am so honored!
If you like the story, please remember the leave a review and pass the word. If you have a blog or website of your own, please consider posting a review there, and please let me know about it if you do. I will be more than happy to signal boost for you.
The Hometown Labor Day Sale is coming up in just a few days! Here are a few of the characters you’ll meet and scenes you’ll read if you download a free copy:
First, let me introduce you to Vicki & Val – Vicki Powers, one of our heroines, is the redhead on the right. Her best friend Valerie Robard is the brunette on the left. They’re two of the bad girls of Belford High, and you can find out more about them here.
Here we have Kara Sauer and Jason Olsen, our other heroine’s best friends. They’re a bit busy just now. Kara tried to punch above her mystical weight class, and it isn’t working out well. For a bit more information, see here.
Kara and Val. The situation…isn’t as happy as it looks.
Kara and Val at the last. Also not as happy as it looks…and I know it doesn’t look happy.
And finally, our heroines. Angelina Santos-de la Cruz, and you’ve already met Vicki. Here they stand – as best they can – at the end of everything. More information here.
To learn more about these characters – and the scenes you’ve glimpsed – download a copy of Hometown during the Labor Day Sale from September 1 to September 5.
All of the artwork in this post was by the marvelously talented MJ Barros.
It’s been twenty-five years since the Belford Incident, and still no one knows exactly what happened that terrible Fall.
All anyone knows is that in the Fall of 1994, the fog rolled into this small factory town in central New York, and someone or something came with that fog. People died. People disappeared. People claimed to see things in that fog. The entire town was gripped with terror and a mysterious form of mass hysteria that has never been seen before or since.
Only one author claims to have the answers for the unexplained things that happened twenty-five years ago in Belford, and his answers have never been substantiated.
