{"id":2628,"date":"2015-04-06T12:09:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T12:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2015-04-07T07:53:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T07:53:43","slug":"buy-my-book-or-download-it-for-free-if-youre-quick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=2628","title":{"rendered":"Buy My Book! (Or Download It for Free if You&#8217;re Quick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2629\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2629\" style=\"width: 340px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/s\/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=B00VKMZR3M\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2629\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Cross-the-Line-Cover-v3-736x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The Cover of my eBook: Do You Dare Me to Cross the Line?\" width=\"340\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Cross-the-Line-Cover-v3-736x1024.jpg 736w, https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Cross-the-Line-Cover-v3-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Cross-the-Line-Cover-v3.jpg 1007w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2629\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cover of my eBook: Do You Dare Me to Cross the Line?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As hinted in the previous post, I&#8217;ve been dipping my toe in the waters of ebook creation and my first offering is now available for download (free for a limited period until the end of Tuesday 7th April) on Amazon for Kindle readers (and Kindle reader apps).<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Do You Dare Me to Cross the Line? on Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/s\/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=B00VKMZR3M\" target=\"_blank\">ebook<\/a> features four short stories, all \u00a0of which were selected and performed by the Liars&#8217; League.<\/p>\n<p>Read about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Naked photography in a hipster\u2019s \u00a0Shoreditch loft kitchen in\u00a0<em>Do You Dare Me to Cross the Line?<\/em><\/li>\n<li>An intern\u2019s impromptu elevator pitch for the most calamitous disaster movie ever in <em>Elevator Pitch<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The petrol-headed rage of a spurned, blade-wielding opera singer in\u00a0<em>The Good Knife<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Lovesick rapping from the dock by a guilt-ridden, Premier League hard-man in <em>Well Sick for a White Guy<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All are 2,000 words or under so can be read in ten minutes or so.\u00a0\u00a010-15 minute stories that were memorably read by actors at Liars&#8217; League&#8217;s award spoken-word evenings in London, Leicester and Hong Kong. Click on the cover image to download the book.<\/p>\n<p>Links to three of the live performances can be found elsewhere on this blog. The exception is\u00a0<em>Well Sick For A White Guy<\/em>, which was performed in September by\u00a0<em>Liars&#8217; League Leicester.\u00a0<\/em>The video for this story hasn&#8217;t been made available online and the only place the text can be found is in this ebook (unlike the two\u00a0<em>Liars League London<\/em> stories which can be read on the\u00a0<em>Liars League<\/em> website).<\/p>\n<p><em>Well Sick For a White Guy\u00a0<\/em>might actually be my favourite story of the four. The reading would certainly have been fun and I&#8217;m rather sad that I missed it, although Alex Woodhall and Sarah Feathers&#8217; readings of the first two stories in London were excellent in person and\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333;\">Bhavini Ravel&#8217;s great reading of <\/span><i>The Good Knife<\/i> can be viewed below.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not normally a fan of giving away intellectual property for free because of the way it eventually undermines the ability of creative people to get a decent reward for their work. However, it&#8217;s the fact that these stories are in the public domain already which has encouraged me to publish them together as an ebook &#8212; and people did pay to hear all of them read for each public performance. Therefore I&#8217;d have the book on free download indefinitely if it wasn&#8217;t for the rather strict promotional rules on Kindle Direct Publishing (only five days in any ninety day period).<\/p>\n<p>When the promotional period is over, the book will revert to the current Amazon Kindle minimum price of \u00a31.99 &#8212; which is less than the price of a cappuccino in\u00a0<em>Pret A Manger<\/em> or half a pint of beer in most pubs in London (i.e. not much at all compared with the relative effort that goes into the creation of each).<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t need a Kindle to download to as Amazon will provide Kindle reading apps for iPhones, iPads, Android devices, PCs and so on.<\/p>\n<p>As well as experimenting with the mechanics of self-publishing, my motivation for publishing it is purely give anyone who&#8217;s curious enough a concise taste of my writing and <span style=\"color: #141823;\">if anyone who downloads it feels kind enough to leave a review then that would be great.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t make any great artistic claims for the cover image above (anyone spot where it is?) but it&#8217;s a fact of self-publishing that you need to have one &#8212; and not one that rips off anyone else&#8217;s image rights (that&#8217;s my own photo). The eventual image was voted for\u00a0overwhelmingly (out of a not-very-inspiring selection) by my Facebook friends!<\/p>\n<p>And my stories are rubbing literary shoulders in exalted company as\u00a0<em>Liars League\u00a0<\/em>is now on Radio 4! A series of three readings &#8212; from Hong Kong, New York and London &#8212; is currently running on Sunday evenings at 7.45pm. The first story was broadcast yesterday. While my stories have no connection with those broadcast, it&#8217;s a fantastic endorsement of overall quality threshold of the <i>Liars&#8217; League\u00a0<\/i>events and is a very positive reflection on my fellow LL writer alumni.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2630\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2630\" style=\"width: 448px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?attachment_id=2630\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2630\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2630 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/LL-in-Radio-Times-050415.jpg\" alt=\"Liars' League Listing in the Radio Times, Easter Sunday 2015\" width=\"448\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/LL-in-Radio-Times-050415.jpg 448w, https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/LL-in-Radio-Times-050415-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liars&#8217; League Listing in the Radio Times, Easter Sunday 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My\u00a0collection has been put together with the blessing of <em>Liars&#8217; League<\/em> &#8212; Liar Katy Darby helped me pick the title and had a look at an early version of the ebook. I&#8217;ve actually been doing Katy&#8217;s \u00a0highly-recommended\u00a0<a title=\"City University Writers' Workshop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.city.ac.uk\/courses\/short-courses\/writers-workshop\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Writers&#8217;\u00a0<\/em><i>Workshop<\/i>\u00a0short course<\/a> at City University between January and March this year to help develop ideas for the next novel &#8212; keep reading this blog for more news on that over the next few months).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be looking at other means of distributing the ebook but it needs to be exclusive to Amazon for the next three months so, if you&#8217;re interested, download it as soon as possible. Watch the blog or follow me on Twitter for when it goes on free download again.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, if you want to watch Alex Woodhall&#8217;s superb reading of\u00a0<em>Do You Dare Me to Cross the Line?\u00a0<\/em>one more time in person then he&#8217;ll be performing it at a special event &#8212; the Studio 189 Spring Ball organised by my friends Sabina and Fay on 25th April in north London. It also offers a private viewing of some erotic artworks and an opera singer &#8212; all for the bargain price of \u00a330.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.studio189london.com\/april25th\/studio189-spring-ball\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/55019cfae4b049928d723f97\/5507314ce4b04b9963312f4b\/551fc04be4b0bf692312150d\/1428144206684\/SB+image.jpg?format=450w\" alt=\"Studio 189 Spring Ball\" width=\"450\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Studio 189 Spring Ball<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As hinted in the previous post, I&#8217;ve been dipping my toe in the waters of ebook creation and my first offering is now available for download (free for a limited period until the end of Tuesday 7th April) on Amazon for Kindle readers (and Kindle reader apps). The ebook features four short stories, all \u00a0of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macnovel.org.uk\/?p=2628\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Buy My Book! 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