Halloween Sale! · 7:38pm Oct 25th, 2014
Halloween Sale!
FREE! 33% OFF
Monday, October 27th through Midnight, October 31st!
Formatting that took some time, but in case you're on a phone or an undersized display or it isn't coming through properly, here's the gist: Starting this coming Monday, my published works One Drink and Dead Silver both are going on a Halloween sale! Dead Silver will be 33% off, while One Drink will be absolutely free!
This is a Steam-level deal, folks. You'll be able to get both Unusual stories for a combined total of $3.99, or whatever the equivalent amount is in your country. Jacob Rocke's debut adventure and Hawke Decroux's own foray into the darker sides of the Unusual. 551 pages of mystery, suspense, and action. DRM-free copies to keep as you wish. Read them on your phone, your computer, your tablet, or even your e-reader, if you have one of those. If you've yet to experience either of these novels (or maybe are fresh to my blog and had no idea I published as well as wrote fanfiction), this coming week will be the perfect time to grab them both. And if you own them both already and understand why One Drink and Dead Silver sit at 4.5 stars and 5 stars respectively with almost a thousand copies between them, now is the time to start letting your book-loving friends and neighbors know. Or maybe pick up a few gifts.
So grab them both, sit back, and enjoy a nice slice of spooky mystery and chilling suspense just in time for Halloween.
Praise for One Drink
"...one of the better murder mysteries I've ever read..."
"...inventive and grotesque."
"...I had to keep reading, just couldn't put it down!"
"Suspenseful and very entertaining!"
Praise for Dead Silver
"...captured my interest from the beginning, holding it to the very end."
"A very enjoyable premise and setting..."
"An excellent supernatural mystery..."
"This story is brilliant."
"...had me even more glued to the pages than "One Drink" did."
"...had me on the edge of my seat the whole ride."
You forgot the critique section for each ;-;
Now wait a minute; if I were to pick up One Drink (free during this sale) wouldn't you not get paid for said sale?
2555011 I can't find the critique section, how do I see that? Or is there one?
2555041 Nope. It's free. I do still for Dead Silver, however. But I'm fine giving it away for the week.
2555120 I think he's just being snarky. Or trolling. One of the two.
I've small question: does murder/supernatural mystery is still fair play whodunit in this case?
2555296 Um ... what? Sorry, I'm trying to make sense of the question there.
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Fair play whodunit is subgenre of mystery, which follows specific "fair rules" ensuring that the reader has the same chance of solving the mystery as detective.
Although your books are described as murder mysteries it seems like they are having supernatural elements, which is not problem. But I wanted to know if the rules of supernatural are known and consistent and if I can solve the mystery by cold logic, before the solution is revealed.
Here is tv tropes article explaining it better than me. Although original rules prohibit supernatural at all, if explained it beforehand, it does not result in "unfairness" of riddle.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FairPlayWhodunnit
2555348 Okay. I figured that was what you were asking, but I wanted to be certain.
Yes, both are fair play. You'll have all the same clues that the main characters, and I don't keep anything from the reader to try and deceive them. I'm a big fan of letting the reader know as much as the characters so they have a shot at figuring out what's going on before the heroes. So if you're a fan of that, you'll be fine with both of these.
2555120 m8
2555212 Well, you put 'Praise for <book name>', but nothing from the other side. What problems do peepul hav with these stories?
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Thanks. Sounds good - I'll pick it up.
Sure, I'll give these a shot. As Steam sales always prove, I have a really hard time turning down offers like this.
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I don't think that you understand how advertising works.
2555827 Advertising works by omission or lying. Are you accusing our dear author of being an advertiser?
Yay!
*goes to buy*
*already in kindle*
...
blast
(then again, with Halloween around the corner as you so helpfully pointed out, might as go for a re-read)
I don't want to be "that guy" here, but why is the (wonderful) story "Why Me" tagged for this blog? How does this blog have anything to do with that story?
Now that I have become "that guy" and suddenly lost all shame, I would like to point out that the site rules are pretty clear about proper tagging of stories in blogs. It seems to me like you were trying to use your successful story as a grab for a wider audience for this sale. While I think you are a great writer and I am interested in your published works, it saddens me that you would so openly break the site rules for your advertisement.
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...Okay, seriously?
You are either a fool and a troll or just a fool. If it's the former (and I'm inclined to believe that it is), you can kindly do the world a favor and shape up. If it's the latter, you have my condolences, and I wish you a speedy recovery from that horrible affliction. In fact, please allow me to help you to recover from your unfortunate foolishness by referring you to this blog from our dear author.
2557577 See, this is why it's a problem that plain text doesn't convey tone/etc
Maybe I'm just an idiot, or maybe Amazon has a terrible user interface. I've gone through at least 20 diffferent menus, ended up back on the purchase pages at least 8 times, and I've yet to see any way to download or read online any book that I have on my account.
This is why everything I read is fanfiction, distributors are all too reluctant to just give you a straight download.
2558236 Edited for clarity.
Alright, the quickest and easiest way is to just grab the reading app and put that on what you want to read it on. It'll sync everything automatically once you sign in. From there, the files will be in the program files, and being DRM free, can be yanked out at your leisure. We have a few options. You can also just right click on the book in your library and select "Download" and it'll put it in a folder in "My Documents" that you can then look at and move as you wish.
But there are two other ways, both app-less. Direct download is still there. When purchasing the book, before clicking buy, there is a little pull-down menu below it that asks where you want to send it, and one option is to download it immediately. Since you've already purchased them however, look under the "Your Account" tab and select "Manage Your Content and Devices." A list of your books will come up, and you can click the "Actions" button to open a direct download menu.
Hope that helps! Sorry they make it a little convoluted!
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Seems Amazon just doesn't put direct download in any dropdown menu for me. All I ever see is "Kindle Cloud Reader"
The app page tries to tell me to get the windows phone app. I got an android. I don't see a desktop app anywhere.
This is what happens when UI is designed by 10 different people working in different offices. Inconsistency.
Thanks for the help, though
2558558 This should be the android app link. You can also grab it through the Android Store direct for free.
The pc app page can be reached by googling "kindle reading app for desktop" which can override any prior (or accidental) settings Amazon assumes you want.
2558566
Desktop app successfully installed, and working, but can't find book files anywhere. As a sidenote, the desktop app installs itself into appdata/local, which is just weird.
Android app might work, but I'm 1) too lazy to type my convoluted amazon password into the android keyboard right now, and 2) too exhausted mentally to bother with more shenanigans. Can read everything on my computer now, though, so yay
I have now purchased and downloaded both stories.
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Thanks! I hope you enjoy them! If you can, leave a review when you're done (even if you didn't like them)!