Martin Chalk Book #1 on free promotion

From the 23rd (today) till the 26th of April 2020, the first Martin Chalk book will be on free promotion. It's being advertised through sites like Book Barbarian and Genrepulse. I'm interested in seeing what sort of downloads I get and whether the downloads actually translate to read-through sales of the following books.

I have tarted the book up a little. I added a prologue that I feel ties in much better with the end of the book, as well as book 2. That prologue features Jen Naroth, the forger first seen in the free short story Of Horses and Pickled Fish. Some bits with Abrez Logar in them were also expanded a bit and I feel the reader gets a bit more insight into him.

A short story featuring Danrod has just been finished and is going through the editing and proof reading process. I'll plop it on Amazon as soon as I have a viable cover.

FREE ebooks for download for a limited time only!

 I've recently taken part in an interesting Book Funnel promotion together with other authors. It's an anthology of free upbeat books designed to cheer you up during the coronavirus lockdowns. There are 24 titles to choose from and they range from fantasy to sci fi to romance. Take a look!

https://books.bookfunnel.com/stories-for-self-quarantine/6rbpef2q44

A Slew of New Stories

I’ve been away for quite a while. 

The question, of course, is what have I been doing? 

The answer is, writing. The much-threatened book “Martin Chalk and the Quest Through Time” has just been published on Amazon, and it’s quite a chonker, clocking in at almost exactly 200k words. I’d originally aimed at 90k, which shows that my ability to estimate the length of a story, even with an outline, needs fine-tuning. 

Martin Chalk and the Quest Through Time is available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086J78K3Y

Nevertheless, the story needed that length to unfold properly, and I think it’s a pretty decent yarn if I say so myself. It is a two part book, the first part mainly concerned with Martin Chalk and his efforts to get to the location of the next piece of the Wand of Lemual. In the second part, the reader is re-introduced to the characters of Sir Kethvist, Susanna and Bartak, who were first seen in the short story The Champion’s Prophecy available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VJWPT8Y

Another ‘character’ who makes an appearance much to everybody’s dismay, is Small-Paw, who was introduced in the short story The Skelgar, available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0866D86WH

I’ve also written two other short stories available for free through BookFunnel. 

The first, which is free-free is The Hunger. This also ties into the Martin Chalk story in ways we will come to see later on. It’s a story of a werewolf apocalypse, and how a young man in its path deals with it. The Hunger is found here: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/6yb1cw94hx

The second short story available on BookFunnel is Of Horses and Pickled Fish. It’s a story about the ever-avaricious Regent of Fulldon and his attempts at crooking a fish merchant. Messer Schlei, however, is far more resourceful than the Regent anticipates, with unexpected results. I tried to channel my inner Terry Pratchett for this one, and I’m rather pleased with how it turned out. The forger Jen Naroth makes a cameo appearance, and the short story explains the origin of Martin’s side quest in Sheona.

Of Horses and Pickled Fish is available here : https://dl.bookfunnel.com/2o7b9l4cmm

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