Folks, I need your help. I’ve mentioned before that I’ve written two books, and now they are available at Amazon on the Kindle and in paperback. You could all really help me out by buying them and then posting reviews at Amazon, because more than anything else, reviews make books successful these days. Please do me this favor! I’ve even discounted them this week as a blog-buddy discount.The two books are legal thrillers (the conservative film book will come later in the year). I’ve priced both books on the Kindle at $5 for the next couple days so you all can get them cheaper. Sometime this weekend the prices will go up to $7.99. The paperbacks are $14.99 because of their pricing rules.
If you don’t have a Kindle, you can turn your computer/tablet/phone/etc. into one with a free app from Amazon (HERE) or you can read it at the Amazon cloud.
Thanks for your help everyone! Here are details on the two books:
The first book is Without A Hitch. It’s a story of a government attorney who comes up with the perfect crime, but things go wrong in a rather unexpected way. I don’t want to say too much more because I don’t want to ruin the surprise. But I’ve had several people read it and they’ve all been amazingly positive in their reviews.
Here’s the Kindle link: Without A Hitch. You can get to the paperback through my author page here.
The second book is Wrongful Death, it’s a crime story wrapped up in a medical malpractice case. Again, my readers were exceedingly positive.
Here’s the Kindle link: Wrongful Death. Again, you can find the paperback at my author page here.
I’ve also set up pretty cool websites for each: Without A Hitch, Wrongful Death and an author blog AndrewPriceBooks. Please check those out too! Thanks everybody!
As someone who's been lucky enough to read both of Andrew's books before they were published, my recommendation is that you buy both books. Fast. They are true page-turners.
ReplyDeleteYou need one of those smarmy author's headshots, where you're wearing a plaid shirt and there's a stand of pines behind you while you're displaying a pretentious smirk.
ReplyDeleteOkay! Done...now if the all the reviews are accurate, you might not hear from me for a few days! Oh, and why does Amazon give a word count? Do people actually buy books based on the word count? Just wondering.
ReplyDeleteWriter X, Thanks! And thanks for all your help! :)
ReplyDeleteBev, since I started buying Kindle books, I do give it a glance. When I'm just browsing for something interesting, it tells whether the item is a novel, a short story, or an article. It also tells you whether the price is in line with the product. I've passed over some stuff because the price seemed too high for the word count.
ReplyDeletetryanmax, Sadly, I have no such picture. Wanna draw one for me?
ReplyDeleteBev, Thanks! I hope you enjoy them. :)
ReplyDeleteI put the word count there because when I started buying Kindle books I found it frustrating that the file size doesn't tell you how large the really book is and a lot of them are very, very short. Even when they put an estimated page count, that's often nowhere near accurate. So I figured that putting the word count would let people know this wasn't a 20 page book.
By the way, if any of you think of any tags that should be added, please feel free to add them. I'm sure there are bunches I missed.
ReplyDelete(For those who aren't familiar with Amazon, tags are near the middle/bottom and the are the search terms for the books.)
tryanmax, Same here. I've run into things that looked like real books, were priced like real books, and I almost bought them until I saw the file size and it was something like 25k. That's probably ten pages in a word processor.
ReplyDeleteAndrew, Nice work! Congratulations. I will definitely give you a review. :D
ReplyDeleteThanks DUQ! I appreciate the help! And I think you'll like the books. :)
ReplyDeleteAndrew: Congratulations, again. I read the first book, but haven't seen the second one yet. If the second is like the first, you have a couple of hits on your hands.
ReplyDeleteAndrew, Congratulations! I will definitely help out. I've enjoyed everything you've written here and I suspect you're a good fiction writer too. And I will, of course, speak my mind. :)
ReplyDeleteI am now following your book site too. :)
ReplyDeleteIn sad book news, Ray Bradbury died today.
Sorta OT: my uncle (God bless his peapickin little soul) gave my grandmother a Kindle for Mother's Day. I have now explained most of the process numerous times, spent upward of 6 hours doing so, and my mom has done a bit of the same again. My dear grandmother is still pretty clueless. Right now, I am not in a good place about Kindle - or my uncle. sigh.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I will check these out with the app on my laptop. [And I know that if I go over to the dark side, I want a Fire.]
[I thought Ray Bradbury was already dead. oops]
ReplyDelete"God bless his peapickin little soul." I'm gonna have to remember that one.
ReplyDeleteThanks Lawhawk! And thanks for your help on the first one. I hope these become a hit. That would be pretty cool. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Doc! I appreciate the help! Tell your friends too.
ReplyDeleteThanks for following the writer site. Make sure to check out the book sites too, they're pretty snazzy IMO.
rlaWTX, My mother is starting to get into the Kindle and she's 100% non-tech savvy. If she can learn, your grandmother will learn too. :)
ReplyDelete"peapickin little soul" -- LOL!
Thanks for checking them out! I appreciate all the help I can get from folks. So please do review them afterwards. :)
In truth, I thought Bradbury was dead already as well. The article says he was 91.
T-Rav, That is a new on me too. You learn something every day at C-rama! :)
ReplyDeleteI was also able to read these before publication and while I'm not a big legal thriller fan, I enjoyed both of them, Wrongful Death even more than Without a Hitch, which I would classify as one of those "Waiting for the other shoe to drop" stories.
ReplyDeleteI don't own a Kindle but I had no idea I could just read it in my browser! Amazon makes this all very easy.
P.S. I also thought Bradbury had passed away years ago. But this reminds me: I'm terribly behind on my classic sci-fi lit. I read F451 in high school 15 years ago and that's it.
Scott, Amazon makes it incredibly easy -- you can just read it in your browser. I never knew that either until I looked into it.
ReplyDeleteI actually prefer Without A Hitch, but your mileage will vary. :)
I'm behind on reading my science fiction too. Heck, I'm behind on all my reading!
I also read these in advance of publication and, like Scott, am not a legal thriller fan, but I am a fan of techno-thrillers, which is what these books are more like. They just happen to be technical about the law, which is a nice departure from fantasy law. (Hmm, fantasy law... Hermione Granger, LLM?)
ReplyDeleteIn any case, real page-turners (or whatever the Kindle equivalent gesture is)! I read Without A Hitch in two sittings, a real feat for an ADD type like me.
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On eldertech, I am fascinated by the range of response older people have to technology. While I know that some people's grandparents gave up on tech when they failed to stop their VCRs from blinking 12:00 all the time, my own grandparents have kept up nicely.
On one hand, my mother's parents drew the line at email, but considering they have been self-professedly old for at least 30 years, that is quite an achievement. On the other hand, my father's mother has her laptop and her smart phone and can run rings around me with a DVR. (No, I don't know how to work a DVR. That's what Hulu is for.)
tryanmax, That is quite a trick since it's a 400 page book!
ReplyDeleteEldertech. LOL! My mother is very not-tech savvy, but she's slowly learning bit by bit. And the technologies which make it easiest are the ones she's gravitating toward -- one touch stuff.
Congrats, brother. I know the work that went into this venture and I wish you nothing but success.
ReplyDeleteThe only Bradbury piece I read (all the way through, at least) was A Sound of Thunder. Liked it. The SciFi "original movie" created a few years ago based on it--not so much.
ReplyDeleteThanks Patti! I hope it works out too. I love writing and I'd love to be able to do more of it and less of the day job. :)
ReplyDeleteT-Rav, Yeah, that was a weak movie. I haven't read the book though. I've read several of his books, though I can't name them all. One I definitely liked (and loved the film) was Something Wicked This Way Comes (reviewed HERE).
ReplyDeleteWay cool! I will absolutely buy your books! :)
ReplyDeleteAndrew, The second one doesn't have the Kindle look inside feature. Is there a reason one does and the other doesn't? (Just asking)
ReplyDeleteThanks Terry!
ReplyDeleteAmazon does that automatically. I'm not sure why one works and the other doesn't yet, though I'm told it can take a few days.
In the meantime, you can tell it (on the right) to send a sample to your Kindle -- that works.
Awesome! I wish you the best.
ReplyDelete"Eldertech" - yeah, it's making me elder alright...
ReplyDeleteThe computer is a large, non-portable solitaire game for my granpa (92yo). My granma (83 yo) can check email (unless anything other than what she"always does" is necessary) and buy Big Fish games. She's lost a few steps the last couple of years. Plus her macular degeneration gets in the way. We had hoped that the Kindle would allow her to read more because of the large print, but he process is getting us stuck. Also, there are 8 million and three "Bible apps" for smartphones, but very few Kindle Bibles that are user friendly yet - very frustrating since her large-print Bible is slightly smaller than the Queen Mary.
Thanks Ed!
ReplyDeleterlaWTX, Nice use of tryanmax's word! :)
ReplyDeleteI would have thought for sure there would be good Bibles on Kindle. What's the problem with the ones you've found?
You can go to the Book and possibly the chapter, but nothing more specific than that - unless you happen to know the "location #" which is a teensy-tiny little number at the bottom of the screen. When you have the font rather large paging through the book of Matthew (28 chapters) or Psalms (150 chapters)... And there are only 2 NIVs. A user created a user friendly KJV and Kindle used it, but the publishers have been slow to get involved.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. With the table of contents feature, you should be able to make it more accessible than that by making subparts of the books into subheaders. That way you could go directly to chapters (maybe even verses if you want to go that deep).
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like an interesting opportunity for anyone who cares to type the Bible into Word.
yeah, I'll get right on that!!!
ReplyDeleteYeah, that does seem like a daunting task... something which will take more than a weekend.
ReplyDeleteCongrats Andrew! Writing a book is hard enough, but writing two?! And it sounds like they're good books too from those who read them.
ReplyDeleteTx for the heads up! Very exciting!
ReplyDeleteI will get on this ASAP!!
Eh. When someone figures out how to convert God's Word into an Excel Spreadsheet, then I'll be impressed.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ellen! Yeah, it's a lot of work, but it's worth it in the end. :)
ReplyDeleteCrisD, Thanks! I really appreciate the help! :)
ReplyDeleteT-Rav, Excel is the work of Satan. Trust me on this. ;)
ReplyDeleteWhat's PowerPoint then? Purgatory?
ReplyDeleteYes, absolutely purgatory. You clearly have never sat through business meetings with PowerPoint presentations or you wouldn't need to ask.
ReplyDeleteAs much as I'd love to take credit for Excel, I am only a harbinger of death and destruction. Unadulterated evil and chaos is the Anti-Christ's deal.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. So I've been sending hate mail to the wrong address. Sorry about that, Satan.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of hate mail, someone just sent a Noah-grade hail storm at my house for the last two hours. I think it was primarily intended to stop me from grilling, which had sadly already begun. Very effective.
We do a lot of PowerPoint presentations here. And arts and crafts, but we're always running out of pipe cleaners. Oh, and we have Monopoly, if you don't mind all the good pieces missing.
ReplyDeleteFYI, I'm the guy who basically runs Purgatory, in case you were wondering.
Yeah, I got stuck in a Monopoly game once where everyone owned a little of everything. There was 0.0% chance of anyone winning before the apocalypse, so we finally had to quit. But until we quit, it certainly felt like purgatory.
ReplyDeleteWay to go Andrew, that's awesome!
ReplyDeleteI've been trying to write a western since about 1984 or so. I think maybe it's time to just call it quits.
As for Monopoly - my husband considers it purgatory just to think about it.
Thanks TJ! Any help you could offer with a review would be great!
ReplyDeleteOn writing it, I had the same problem in that I had the ideas for years, I wanted to write them, but I just never sat down and did it. And then when I started, it took a while before I got into the right feel for it. Once I was there, however, it became like an obsession to finish.
I actually wasn't even thinking of publishing at that point, I just wanted to see if I could do it, whether I anyone else ever read it or not. It was only later when it was nearly finished that I began to realize that publishing it would be a good idea.
Then I wrote the second one, which was actually harder for me than the first because it was so different in tone and that required a adjustment. Then I toyed around with the idea of getting an agent and ultimately decided against it for a million reasons.
All in all, it's been a great experience! :)
Bravo Zulu Andrew!
ReplyDeleteI know these two books will be next on my reading list when I can get 'em (I kinda maxed out my Father's Day credit with cd requests, which my lovely wife fulfilled (classic Deep Purple, Nazareth and more Blackfoot in case you were wondering).
Those will most likely contain excellent soundtracks to your books.
I always like listening to music when I'm reading page turners.
I'm betting your books will keep me riveted regardless of the music.
I hope they become best sellers!
BTW, when they get made into films make sure they do it right. Maybe get Nolan to direct. :^)
Ben, Thanks! :)
ReplyDeleteAnd if you like them, please tell all your friends and please leave a review! :)
I would LOVE for these books to be made into films, and yeah, Nolan would be a fantastic choice!
New CD's? Ah, so that explains the post at your website from the other day!
Aye. I had vague memories of a few of the songs on that cd (circa 75 or 76 maybe) but that's it. How the song I featured never became a hit I'll never know. Not enough radio play I'm guessing.
ReplyDeleteMy wife had to order that cd from Germany. Southern/blues/rock...from Germany!
Apparently our classic rock is really big over there.
I can anedotedly confirm that in Norway it's the same way (got a few friends there).
Odd that it's not available in the states though.
Ben, I ran into that a lot before the internet. We used to go every month or so to a store up in Denver called Listen Up, who sold imports. They had all kinds of things you couldn't get here -- and lots of it was American bands!
ReplyDeleteOf course, it was all expensive.
Well, if European countries are trending more towards classic rock (and by classic rock I definitely don't mean Madonna, although pop could very well also be popular there) I gotta say they have good taste in music. :^)
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty neat to see some of these old bands selling out venues (and cds) in other countries where english is not the first language.
And I'm talking these are true fans.
Many youtube videos confirm this. They even know the words of the songs, lol.
Hopefully your books will also be a hit there. :^)
Ben, I'd settle for a hit here or there! :)
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting that classic rocks bands are popular in Europe right now, especially as Europe seemed to have moved off into pop-electronica land.
just be contrarian, I purchased the paperback versions. it's an old guy, conservative think. I like to feel the actual book in my hands. Of course, I don't text either, so what the heck.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read the final edits you made to Wrongful Death yet because I couldn't find a MAC friendly format. I'm actually kind of glad to have print versions. As I mentioned to you, these could both be screenplays, and hopefully that will happen. Well done and bravo! :)
Andrew
ReplyDeleteTell you what this month I will figure out how to use the Kindle I got for Christmas just for you. Lo0oking forward to reading your books.
Jed, They've both had edits since you read them, so if you're looking for a reason to re-read Without a Hitch as well, there's the reason! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for all your help!
Indi, I waited a long time to get one, but now that I have one, I can't believe how easy it is to use. It's also dramatically increased the amount I read because it's so easy to do.
ReplyDeleteI hope you enjoy them both! :)