One Among the Sleepless Ebook Launches

One Among the Sleepless, my first novel, is now available to buy from Amazon (for Kindle) and Smashwords (all other e-reader devices) in all its spank-tastic, asphyxiation-happy gory, I mean glory. And to support the launch, I've put out a festive Sometimes podcast that should be in your itunes inboxes very shortly (if not already). 




M.J. Hahn has redesigned the Sleepless cover using its original elements, the idea is to optimise the image for the Amazon store's tiny shop window. As a result, you can now see the larger sunglasses lens with the view of Peter Reynolds' apartment reflected in it.
The original cover and photography are the work of Peter from Surface Impression. In the image below, you can see me wearing the sunglasses and looking up at the building we used on the cover.




In the Sometimes podcast, which you can get by clicking this link, I mention the fact that after 6 years, One Among the Sleepless is no longer available as a free podcast. I decided it's had a good long run in that medium, and now I want it to be available as an ebook-only title for the next year or so. I plan to re-record it and re-release it sometime in 2014. The same is true of the Hall of Mirrors Volume 2 podcast. So Salvation, Night Crossing etc, will only available as ebooks for 2013.
To grab your copy of One Among the Sleepless at its launch price of $2.99 cick on one of the links below ...

Amazon.com

Amazon.co.uk

Amazon.de

Amazon.ca

Smashwords.com

Enjoy the podcast - it contains the Wayne and Lucy in the love dungeon scene - and enjoy One Among the Sleepless as an ebook!!

Music on the Sometimes Xmas Podcast
Bing Crosby
"White Christmas" (mp3)
from "Bing Crosby Christmas"
(Spectra Records)

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Stream from Rhapsody
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More On This Album

The Elves of Heaven
"This Christmas" (mp3)
from "This Christmas EP"
(Seaport Music Records)

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Sleepless Video

Words speak louder than ... er ... words.

Books are Returning to Amazon.

Books are coming back to Amazon one at a time. One Among the Sleepless should be functional on Amazon and Smashwords in a few hours. Plans for a big podcast launch have been put on hold due to a situation that means I have to leave home base for an indefinite period. My blogs and bulletins will be less frequent as a result, but I'll check in with news when I can.
Until then, enjoy Sleepless!!

HoMs Offline for 12 Hours

Ak! The Hall of Mirrors series is offline for a while because I updated them. I wanted them to have snappier titles: instead of just saying Volume One, Volume Two, etc, they now carry the main story as their title. They should be through the Amazon publishing process in about 12 hours from now.

Massive thanks to everyone who responded to the call for reviews. You are, as you know, the wind beneath my thin, veinous wings!

Reviews Needed at The Hall of Mirrors

My Amazon ebook releases need your reviews. With no reviews, a book on Amazon is dead, simple as that. I'm asking you to help me and support my work by adding a review and 5 stars to any of the titles listed below in either the US or UK stores.

Doesn't matter whether you bought the book on Amazon, whether you received it as a fundraiser perk, whether you amassed the stories in bits and pieces from other sources like Smashwords, or even if you've only heard the podcast, you can still add a review to Amazon and share some positive feedback.

I thank you in advance for your help :-)

USA
The Collected Edition http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AA7NZ6Y

 
Salvation and Other Stories http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A3SVMVA

Poacher's Cottage and Other Stories http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AA2Q19M

Trolls and Other Stories http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A9Z3OB8

UK

The Collected Edition https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00AA7NZ6Y

Salvation and Other Stories https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00A3SVMVA

Poacher's Cottage and Other Stories https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00AA2Q19M

Trolls and Other Stories https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00A9Z3OB8

Salvation (pt 1) on YouTube

Buy Salvation and 12 other tales of horror and the grotesque for just $2.99

Amazon Kindle USA: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AA7NZ6Y
Amazon Kindle UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Collected-Hall-Mirrors-ebook/dp/B00AA7NZ6Y

iPad, iBooks, Kobo, Nook, Sony: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/257684

New Artwork for Sleepless

In preparation for the release of One Among the Sleepless as an Ebook, MJ Hahn has taken the original 2002 artwork and redesigned it so as to optimise its efficiency on Amazon. As you we all know, book covers on Amazon are tiny - and even tinier when seen in a list of other titles. This new version of the cover focuses on just one lens of the sunglasses. In the lens, you can see the window of the top flat with its window ablaze and, no doubt, Peter Reynolds, hopping mad behind it. But how did the image come about? Read on ...

The photography and original cover were by Surface Impression in Brighton. Peter, my designer friend, who created the original cover (below), took photographs of various buildings in the neighbourhood in which the novel is set - including the building in which I was living at the time. This building (you can see it on the back cover below), was the inspiration and model for the Peter, Wayne, and Lucy's building in the story. In fiction, it was 13 Wellington Street, in reality, it was 13 Waterloo Street, Hove.

I changed the name of the street, but you don't need to be a detective to figure out the connection between the names: Wellington / Waterloo. 

So if ever you’re in Brighton and Hove, take a stroll down Waterloo Street, stop outside number 13. That’s the house that inspired the book, and the place in which we were living when I wrote it.

We didn't have a dominatrix in the building, but there were a few in our neighbourhood (I'm told). There was no Peter, no Lucy, and certainly no Wayne.

Here's me in 2002, looking up at local buildings to try and get that "building in the lens" effect. The shades are mine - a pair of 1963 Bausch and Lomb Balorama wraparound sunglasses, as worn by The Velvet Underground, Dirty Harry, Bob Dylan ... and Dusty.

Looking up on Waterloo Street, trying to get that elusive building for the cover. Many pics were taken, but it wasn't until the one below that we struck paydirt. Look closely and you can see the building that made the cover.

One Among the Sleepless will be released for Amazon Kindle and all other ebook formats shortly.