Anyone getting an e-reader for Christmas?

Or an iPod or iPad? Try out Pike's Quest at a silly low price, Get it from Amazon, WHSmith, iTunes, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Diesel and Smashwords. The worst that can happen is that you spend less than £1, $1 or €1 and don't enjoy it too much. At best you'll love it and write reviews, tell your friends and spread the word on the internet. Not convinced? See what others have said so far. The links below will take you to the vendor of your choice.


Enjoy, and have a very merry Christmas.

Amazon for Kindle on these links - 

UK - USA - DE - FR - IT - ES

Also available at

iBooks (UK) - iBooks (US) - Smashwords

Barnes & Noble - Kobo - WHSmith - Diesel

Great value and great fun for all. To read the blurb, click HERE

Latest Amazon UK review

"What started out as too silly became deliciously silly entertainment that I had to keep on reading. Pike is an excellent hero..."


http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B005SJKX5K/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1


I must admit to know this reviewer: the fact she gave it 5 stars is a mark of her sincerity.

Cheaper and less fattening than a choccy bar and with a second FIVE STAR review!

Now THIS is high praise:


"The author's style bridges the gap between teenage and adult genres in a Harry Potter style ..."


Read the full review, go on, then be tempted, and part with your 86 pence of 99 cents and buy a copy. It's not a lot of money to risk for your enjoyment, is it?.


See previous post for other outlets.

Widely available

OK everyone, here's the news:
You can now buy Pike's Quest from

• Amazon - UK - USA - FR - DE - ES - IT
• Smashwords
• iTunes  - UK - USA
• Barnes & Noble
• Kobo
• Diesel

From most of these sellers the price is below £1.00 and $1.00, but they do vary.


I was working on a print edition via Create Space, but they don't sell the hard-copies internationally, so I would have print editions in the USA, but not the UK, and it doesn't fit in with my main audience.


Currently I have a wonderful 5 Star review from a stranger, and I know others will soon be posting their reviews: however, sales are not high so far, so please spread the word. I know it's good, those who have read it agree it is good and, although tagged as 'Young Adult' it means nothing - this book is suitable for almost any age.

Perhaps one of my finer moments.

My last Pike Post was a glum affair, full of misery, flu and self pity (and a little bit of embarrassment – OK, a LOT of embarrassment). I remained in that frame of mind until I saw this -  

5 STAR REVIEW 

- at Amazon. 

I would have been mildly impressed had it been from someone I know, but the lady who wrote it actually doesn't know me. Furthermore, she is clearly a lady of keen wit, intelligence and great humour, with qualities of fine judgement.

It is comments like Andrea's that make it all worthwhile.

Not my finest moment ...

Have you ever had two copies of something, and used the wrong one? Not only that, have you ever had two copies of something, and edited the wrong one to a smaller size, and then used both wrong versions?


Or is it just me?


Having created a new version of the cover for Pike's Quest last week, I printed it out, realised I had made some ridiculous typos, and edited them out. Then, I saved the newly corrected picture under the same name, but I saved it into a different file. Later, I opened up the image from my 'recent' files list and trimmed it down to use as my Twitter and Facebook profile pictures.


So far, so good, except I was so confident in my capabilities that I didn't double check what I had done, and what I had done, was use the incorrect image. So I uploaded the wrong images to Amazon (.co.uk, com, and DE & FR, pretty much the world, really), Smashwords, Goodreads, Twitter and Facebook.


Since then I must have seen that image hundreds of times, but did I notice? Heck, no. Did anyone e-mail and call me a dozy git? No. Did my 14-year-old daughter ridicule me when she looked on line and saw it today? Yes, of course she did. And there was me, already feeling like %!@>~!, what with the sore head, throat and all. I had to change it, and here's why -

BAD

GOOD

BLUSH

Needless to say, as ill as I feel, I've had to make some amendments.

If you bought a copy ...

... you need to read this.

So, my writing weekend in Wales went very well. Far from being wet I was bathed in glorious sunshine.

When I wasn’t writing I was reading (I would have gone walking, but my Achilles tendon awaits an operation to repair an old rupture, and walking leads to pain ...). My chosen material was Ties that Bind, by Carolyn Arnold, and my very own Pike’s Quest.

Canadian crime writer Carolyn will be guesting on my other  blog – http://kj-bennett.blogspot.com on 9 December, so I thought it would be good to read one of her books. Sadly I am only about a third of the way through (OK, 36% - it’s pretty good so far), as I was distracted by something in Pike: I discovered several formatting errors in the latter section of the book. It’s nothing major, but it may spoil the reading experience.

The errors mainly revolve around the use if italics: where characters communicate with each other by thought, the words were supposed to be in italics. Because I had had to reformat the entire manuscript from scratch to get it into e-book format, I had failed to italicise all of these sections. I think I have now captured them all, and new versions to both Amazon and Smashwords.

I don’t want to let anyone down.

If you bought a copy before 8^th November, and you can provide a proof of purchase (we can negotiate what that means if you don’t have you’re original e-mail proof), I will send you a copy of the e-book free of charge to replace the defective one. Please use the address pike at kjbennett.co.uk (in correct format, with @ and no spaces) if you want to take me up on this.

Don't be shy, now.