Small Moves

Last night I passed the 90,000 word mark on Book 2, "Hermes and the Sea People." So the first draft is a couple of chapters from being done.

Also, Rachael at my publisher, Cnoc Mhuilinn, has added a buy button to my website. You can order "Venus and the Sea People" in trade paperback, and if you wish I will sign it for you when I am next in their office.

Fly! Be Free!

I have put a copy of my book into the giant public-domain library that is BookCrossing. It's initially going out as a BookRay, which is a list of people who want to read it, kind of like a chain-letter - except that instead of sending money, you get to read books.

To get on the list you put your name down, PM me your address, and are added to a list. When it's your turn, the last person mails the book to you. And when you've read it, you mail it to the next person on the list.

http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/20/475720

Website Overhaul

Fixed a few things: added a page and blurb for volume 2, Hermes and the Sea People; contact, download and store pages; and a Kindle sample containing the prologue and the first four chapters. Oh, and I posted a drabble I wrote a few years ago onto GoodReads.

Free Stuff

Goodreads are giving away a copy of my book. They also have the first four chapters as a free download.

Goodreads Book Giveaway

Venus and the Sea People

by Henry Hallan

Giveaway ends April 01, 2012.

See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

Enter to win

Launch Day

Today is launch day for the paperback edition. The ISBN hasn't propagated across the Atlantic yet, so although you can order it from bookshops in the UK, you can't order it from bookstores in the USA. The lovely people at Bowker are working on it as we speak. I'm working on a buy link on my website so you can get autographed copies. Watch this space.

T minus 7 and counting...

Seven days until the paperback launch. And Amazon are already taking pre-orders, which suddenly changes things from "oh, someday soon" to a committed deadline. If someone orders it, we'd better have product to send them! And we will: my lovely editor has been doing a wonderful job of checking the internal layout, and everything should be ready (just) in time.

Publish! (And Be Damned?)

So the first volume of "The Fall of the Sea People" is on Kindle.

I am working on a genuine squashed-trees edition, possibly for sale from my own website. It should also be available through normal book distribution channels, but the advantage of buying it from the website would be that I could autograph it before shipping it.

The disadvantage would be that I would have to post it from Ireland: possibly adding €5 or so to the cover price (€12.99 in shops, so maybe €18 or so in total.)

If you think you would be interested in a squashed-trees edition, signed by my fair hand, please add a comment to let me know.