Well, there’s less than twenty-four hours of voting left to go in the Bookhabit competition, so if you haven’t gone out yet to show your support for Chainbreaker, now’s your last chance. We’re currently still in the running… but only just. Having fallen from first to fifth place. We’re up against some tough competition, so we need all the support we can get.
And while we’re at it, Chainbreaker is also available as a free download at Lulu.com! Because all publicity is good publicity, right?
In the further interest of pursuing the Long Tail, Chainbreaker has now been made available on the eBook website, Bookhabit.
Bookhabit charges a nominal fee for downloading ‘full’ books, but since we’re giving Chainbreaker away for free here anyway, we’ve waived that and the full book is available by clicking “Download first chapter (FREE)”. We’re sneaky like that. Of course, if you want to support two struggling wannabe authors by buying the whole thing for a measly $2.50, we won’t stop you. You know, just in case.
Why Bookhabit, you ask? Well, they have this competition, see. The prize is $5,000 and — more importantly — exposure. There is a little over one week of voting left and it sure would be nice to get to Round Two. Something we need your help on. All you have to do is pop over to the site and download and/or rate Chainbreaker for us. We get 5 points per download and one point per star per rating. Five minutes of your day, max, I swear.
Don’t make me get Jesse out here with the emotional blackmail!
That’s right, dead readers, your favourite neighbourhood modern dark fantasy novel has joined the revolution and gotten itself a Facebook Page.
There’s not much there at the moment — I need to go through and prettify it up a bit later — but we’re open and accepting fans so… what’re you waiting for?
(Okay, it’s been slightly longer than a week, but bear with me.)
So, both Jesse and I are extremely pleased by the fact that since releasing Chainbreaker we’ve had a respectable 165 uniquely identifiable downloads. That’s very cool! 105 of those have been referred in from our news post at deviantART (go fav it if you’ve got a moment, eh?), so major kudos for the support from that community.
I’d also like to thank all the people who’ve provided us with feedback thus far. Opening yourself up for criticism over something you’ve worked for so long on is always gut-churning, so it’s gratifying that all the comments we’ve gotten back thus far have been mostly positive. Thus far we’ve got a couple of things on the cards for review, including the pacing and structure of the story’s beginning. We’ve even had a request for a sequel, so we are — of course — more than happy to report that there is one, it’s called Dead on Arrival, and it’s about two thirds written.
Finally this week, it’d be very remiss of me not to mention the new concept art that’s snuck its way onto the site; from Jesse there’s a brand spanking new pic of Miriah while from yours truly it’s Loki. These were originally done for the World Ends With You Contest at deviantART, and you can check out (and fav, of course) the originals here and here respectively.
That’s it for now, so until next time; keep reading!
You read that right, the first book of the Urban Nordica series, titled Chainbreaker is now available for download in PDF format.
This is, I supposed, what you’d call a beta draft of the novel and here at UN.com we’re going to be running a bit of a social experiment. See, Chainbreaker needs you! In the same way that software needs beta testers to snuff out all the bugs, we want you (yes, you) to help us work out the kinks in our story.
So here’s the deal.
- First off, download Chainbreaker.
- Read it!
- Tell us what you thought. Negative or positive, it doesn’t matter. All we ask is you make a post in your weblog or journal with some feedback. That’s all.
Our favourite critics go in the running to win some hyper-limited edition first press run Really Real Life copies of the book (care of everyone’s favourite vanity press company, Lulu). That’s like two free books for the price of sharing your opinions with the world. Which y’all like doing anyway, right?
Right.
So what are you waiting for? Get reading!
