The Last Days of Jericho has gone live at Amazon!
The paperback version is $12.95. The Kindle version is $2.99.
I'd like to thank everyone for all the support I received while writing and publishing this book.
A monster is approaching the Bronze Age city of Yarich.
It cannot be stopped. It cannot be turned aside.
And the monster is…God Himself.
The Canaanite city of Yarich is home to a society that is literate, cosmopolitan – and doomed. Sakal, caravan-master to the Melek or king of the city-state, recounts the tale of the increasingly desperate battle for survival waged by an urban culture against fanatical outsiders – nomads from the desert wielding a terrible supernatural power. Half Deuteronomy, half Gojira, Brookside’s story examines the horror that arises from the knowledge of inexorable fate, and explores the moral ambiguity at the heart of the Old Testament tales that help make up the foundation of western civilization.
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Thomas,
ReplyDeleteFor your paperback you might want to check #OpBookDrop on Twitter.
Is that the "books for the troops" program?
ReplyDeleteI find Twitter endlessly confusing.
Thomas, I just read your comment on Joe's blog, and I have to tell you-- it was bloody fantastic. You're my hero.
ReplyDeleteNice blog-- it's the first time I've checked it out, although I've been reading your posts on The Newbie's Guide for a while.
I'm a top reviewer on Amazon, by the way. If you want to send me a PDF copy of your new book, I'll leave a review for you. My private e-mail is CPSILVA AT Comcast DOT NET
Good luck with your new release.
I recently stumbled upon your Huffington Post comment: “I would say that it's PURSUING traditional publishing that's not very smart, and not traditional publishing itself.
ReplyDeleteObviously if MacMillan kicks your door down and says they want to publish you and put you into every bookstore and buy you front table space at Borders, it would be "not very smart" to say, "No thanks, I'd rather self-publish."
But that's not really the choice 99.999% of people face. For that 99.999%, the alternatives are:
1. Invest a lot of time and energy into pursuing a traditional agent and publisher, and sell exactly 0 copies of your book[s], have exactly 0 readers and make exactly 0 dollars.
2. Self-publish through CreateSpace, the Kindle Store, and Smashwords/B&N and have some >0 number of sales, readers, and royalties.
The choice between 0 and >0 is a pretty easy one.
I never even considered pursuing a traditional agent or publisher, because I knew it would be pointless. Instead I just wrote what many would consider a silly horror novella and put it up on Amazon. Across the paperback and Kindle formats, for the four months my book has been out, it has sold around 150 copies a month. That's pretty meagre, but if I had spent the last four months trying to get an agent, I still wouldn't have one and I would have had 0 sales during that time. And that would have been "not very smart".”
Do you have that little faith in your book? If you think you are a talented writer, why would you not believe that agents and publishers would be interested in your work? Do you really believe: "But that's not really the choice 99.999% of people face. For that 99.999%, the alternatives are:
1. Invest a lot of time and energy into pursuing a traditional agent and publisher, and sell exactly 0 copies of your book"?
Where do you think new authors come from? Every author that is which a publisher, at one time, had zero books on their resume and signed their first contract. First time authors sign deals with publishers all the time.