Category: Marketing

New book: Choices and Other Stories

Woo-hoo! as that big yellow man says on the telly. My latest book Choices and Other Stories has finally passed through all the digital hurdles and is available at all good ebook stores for just $0.99 Here’s the cover of the book along with a description.

Choices and Other Stories by Eamonn Murphy is a mixed bag of fantasy tales, many with a touch of romance. Inside you will find a builder who meets his match when he picks up a witch in a bar; A girl haunted in the Mountains of Mourne; another who discovers that the villagers in her new home have a strange secret. There’s also a wayward sexist who gets his comeuppance, a duck that won’t lay eggs, brick eating worms from outer space and an 18th-century love triangle. This is a light-hearted collection for the gentle reader.

I was tempted to advertise it as romance but while there’s an element of boy meets girl in most of the stories it’s not enough to satisfy a regular reader of romance, I feel. All the stories have been paid for previously by editors and featured in some magazine or website so they achieve that minimal standard. The cover is by my favourite cover maestro Laura Givens.

Anyway, I hope someone likes it.

 

 

 

In Praise of Calibre

Calibre is a free program that lets you download, read and convert ebooks and even send them to another device. The converting might be the best bit of all.

A publisher sent me a book to review in mobi file. I sent it to my kindle address. All I got on my kindle was a silly icon in the top left corner that I could do nothing with. I checked online and this sort of thing seems to happen a lot with books not bought from Amazon even if they are in mobi. Amazon likes you to buy your books there and is not big on sharing. (Most other ebook sellers make them available in multiple formats)

The solution is to put the book on Calibre and convert it, rather madly, from mobi to mobi. Calibre (on whom a thousand blessings) then has an easy two click way to send it to your email kindle address and when it arrives it’s a readable book not a silly icon in the top left corner of the screen. Hurrah!

It may be that some files have DRM or other protection that messes up kindle transmission so it isn’t necessarily Amazon’s fault. In any case, Calibre was made for sharing and it’s absolutely free, though they like donations and deserve one from me today. I just sent them $10 via Paypal.

This ‘give the service free and rely on donations’ model might work for me. $10 is about 30 x 35 cents and I will have to sell 30 books to get it. I wish I could. I can only give them away. Which reminds me that my books are now available on Group Giveaway at Instafreebie with lots of other good books. Click on blue for the Gothic Horror Giveaway featuring Arnos Hell and on this other bit of blue for the Horror and Thriller Giveaway featuring Five Little Horrors.  Consarn Christmas and Other Stories features on the rather nice Best of British Science Fiction Giveaway which starts tomorrow.

Calibre also have an Audio Library, bless them.

P.S. I can’t afford a WordPress plan with a Patreon button but if anyone is grateful after reading one of my free books and wants to give me money the Paypal address is bigfootmurf@hotmail.com

Smashwords have a system where you can pay what you think the book is worth. I’m not sure how that works out for authors.

 

 

Gothic Horror Giveaway

There’s a gothic horror giveaway on Instafreebie. CLICK HERE to get a free copy of my book Arnos Hell or some other books that might be better, though frankly if you worked at NHS Direct then Arnos Hell is a good one to read.