Michael's Blog – April 2013 Archive (8)

Late today; should have posted this yesterday. Had some good news over the weekend: my bargain deal, THE DEVIL’S TRINITY, was picked up by ENT, and the result was 122 sales that day. Compare that to an average of one sale every two weeks and that’s a huge result. It lifted the book from about 350,000 in the rankings to 1200. It also reached #34 in the Action & Adventure category. There’s usually a follow on effect, although I’m not expecting too much. The ranking is now falling away as…

My latest Kindle title, THE EAGLE’S COVENANT is now available on Amazon (both sites) at $2,99. Check it out at htttp://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CJZE6Y0/?tag

I have been promoting one of my titles, THE DEVIL'S TRINITY since dropping the price two weeks ago to $0,99, but very little happened. Then yesterday ENT picked it up and posted it as a bargain, daily deal and bingo! sales started climbing. I was looking at a sale of about one or two as a result of the price drop, but just a small ad (free) for a day on ENT and I have a big smile on my face. It reached #34 in the Action & Adventure category, and at the time of writing it is beginning to…

Life is full of little surprises, and none of us are immune to them. My last post included a piece about a young, lady writer I joining Acclaimed Books and hoping to publish a collection of quotes that made people happy. I had passed on a recollection of something that had made me happy and included in that was a reference to my church here in Torrevieja. I subsequently learned that any reference to God, church or religion of any sort was not welcome, and would be edited out of any quotes…

I have a lot of thinking to do about the way in which I will go with respect to my writing. I am currently working on a project which could take all of this year to complete. This isn’t a problem as any writer will know, but I keep getting distracted by wanting to turn my attention to other projects like book promotion and marketing etc. I also have another title waiting to be published on Amazon. This is THE EAGLE’S COVENANT, which was published in hardback about four years ago by my…

THE DEVIL'S TRINITY by Michael Parker is now $0,99. Not an Satanic novel but a thriller set in the Gulf of Mexico where a terrorist threatens to rip apart the underbelly of the USA. Check it out at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A40ZUWE/?tag. Available in UK too.

Shocking news yesterday. Pat and I had just come back from church when we received a phone call from our neighbour to tell us that our Vet had murdered his wife. This was the Vet who came to our house four weeks ago to put our dog, Lucy down. We have used his practice for a few years now and he has operated on our cat and dog, plus giving them the usual vaccinations etc. The shop, which is in a local village, was always busy with a mixture of Spanish as well as ex-Pats. The vet’s daughter…

It’s April Fool’s day today and the beginning of a month where I have high hopes of getting my title, SHADOW OF THE WOLF into the spotlight. I intend putting it on the Kindle Select promotion for three days: 18/19/20. It will be free of course and I’m hoping to pick up some good reviews and, naturally, some sales after the promotion. It’s always a risk, giving away your books for free. If you get a high number, it means that readers have picked up your book for nothing and may not even…