{"id":2080,"date":"2012-10-01T10:22:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T17:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2012-10-01T11:35:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T18:35:57","slug":"announcing-the-millennial-sword-and-free-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2080","title":{"rendered":"Announcing: The Millennial Sword (and free promotion)!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Big news! My first novel, <em>The Millennial Sword<\/em>, is now available from Amazon!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  \"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B009JW9K4M\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8311\/8043808444_a7ff1c9060.jpg\" width=\"313\" height=\"500\" alt=\"cover\"><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t the cover art amazing? It&#8217;s by my friend Jessie Bennett. She did such an incredible job, really, I can&#8217;t even begin to describe how much I love this. To my eyes Morgan le Fay has a gorgeous pre-Raphaelite quality to her face, and the way she&#8217;s rising out of the water is somehow both sinister and compelling. Hey Jessie, have you thought about taking the text off and selling prints?<\/p>\n<p>Clicking the art will take you to the Amazon page for the book. It&#8217;s currently only available for the Kindle, although I&#8217;m working on putting up a paperback version, and there will also be other e-reader editions to follow. In the meantime, though, even if you don&#8217;t have a Kindle, you can read the book on your computer, iPad, or smartphone by using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/feature.html\/ref=dig_arl_box?ie=UTF8&#038;docId=1000493771\">this app<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The e-book is priced at $2.99. But! Starting <strong>tomorrow<\/strong>, and continuing through Friday, I&#8217;m going to make it available as a <em>free download<\/em>. The reason I&#8217;m doing this is that e-published books rely on word of mouth and good reviews&#8212;that&#8217;s really the only way for a first-time author to build sales. So my four-day FREE launch promotion is designed to get some attention and pull in reviews. There&#8217;s no strings, but I would ask that if you read the book and like it, that you leave me a review on Amazon, Goodreads, or whatever social media networks you use. I really can&#8217;t overstate the importance of Amazon reviews&#8212;it&#8217;s the main sales driver for indie publishers.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll put up another announcement when the free promotion begins! I am just about <em>vibrating<\/em> with excitement, if you can&#8217;t tell!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big news! My first novel, The Millennial Sword, is now available from Amazon! Isn&#8217;t the cover art amazing? It&#8217;s by my friend Jessie Bennett. She did such an incredible job, really, I can&#8217;t even begin to describe how much I love this. To my eyes Morgan le Fay has a gorgeous pre-Raphaelite quality to her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2088,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/2088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}