Category Archives for Hungry For You

Hungry For… A Trailer?

I completely forgot to make an announcement about the awesome trailer MCM made for Hungry For You. I mean, I put it over there in the sidebar, but who’s going to notice that, right?

So check it out:

In other news, the April 2011 issue of eFiction Magazine features a back-page awesome poster ad of Hungry For You (also made by MCM), so head on over, read some great fiction, and take a peek at the poster too!

And lastly, since I’ve been so lax in posting fiction here lately, I recommend you distract yourself with Intern With The Vampire, the first book in the exciting new Vampire General series. I like to describe it as True Blood meets Scrubs.

Now, I have parties to attend and songs to dance to.

Have a lovely weekend, everyone!

Blog Tour de Force: 1 Week to Go!

Less than 4 days until the Blog Tour de Force begins, and exactly one week until it’s my day to kick some ass!

You may have noticed I’ve added a bunch of sponsors logos to the sidebar — these are all the lovely people who’ve pitched in to help promote Hungry For You on the day, so much love and kudos to them.

My date on the tour is April 21. I’m going to be posting here and giving away loads of ebook copies, with some other extra-exciting secret goodies up for grabs, too! So make sure to stop by and drop a comment on the blog — which will also enter you into the overall blog tour prize draw for a Kindle.

It’s pretty exciting to be taking part in this all, and the hype has made me really appreciate the lovely book bloggers who go out of their way to promote indie authors. One such book blogger has gone as far as to make a video trailer for the blog tour! Cue video:

In other news, I’ve started up a tiny, very under construction directory of indie book bloggers to help showcase these wonderful people.

Further exciting news is that I am now officially the Editor-in-Chief of 1889 Labs, which means I get to crack my whip and commission exciting projects and just generally run around and get my way.

So yes, this is my happy face. :-)

Coming Soon: Blog Tour de Force!

Coming soon, right here: blog tour meets cage match meets utter insanity.

Tell your friends, tell your family, tell your pet hamster. For five days, ten indie authors will face off and and give away more prizes than you can shake a stick at!

Now let me explain in a slightly less sensational manner:

From April 18th-22nd, every day, two indie authors will face off, battling for the most number of comments. The two authors who receive the most comments from readers overall will then fight it out for the Championship title, and I’m determined to get that crown on my head! Up for grabs will be countless free ebooks, goodie bags, and even a huge prize draw to win a Kindle. You’d be crazy not to take part.

My day is April 21st, where I’ll be facing off with Suzanne Adair, author of Paper Woman. It’s going to be an interesting match, considering Paper Woman is a historical thriller set during the American Revolution — could that be any more different to Hungry For You?

I’ve already got a bunch of lovely book bloggers who are willing to sponsor me during the event by posting reviews/interviews, and am rustling up some cool prizes to give away (suggestions welcome). So far, I’ve decided that anyone who posts on my blog on the day will get a free ebook copy, and up for grabs will be a print copy, postcards, and who knows what else?

For now, just put that date in your calender: April 21. I’ll see you back here for some awesomeness.

Hungry For You Now 2 Months Old!

It seems like ages ago since I announced the release of Hungry For You. Strange to think it’s only been two months since the ebook came out; one month since print. In that time I’ve sold 70+ copies, despite not putting in as much marketing effort as I should have, and I have to say I’m really happy with the responses I’ve had.

Other good news: I ran a Goodreads giveaway for HFU and over 1,000 people entered the competition. Woo! And I’ll be pimping Hungry For You a bit more during the upcoming Blog Tour de Force (April 18-25), so if you run a book blog site and want to help out, get in touch!

But enough about my books, let’s talk about me!

No, just kidding. Let’s talk about my favourite poet, Gabriel Gadfly. He is a related subject, after all; his poem A Love To Die For is the epigraph in Hungry For You and is probably one of the best zombie love poems out there. Gabriel is also running a video reading competition where readers have to submit videos of them reading his work.

Cue video:

(Please ignore my crap hair. Also I have a cold. So there. Be gentle.)

Much thanks and love to Gabriel and all you other readers, too. Stay gold!

Hungry for… PRINT!

It’s here! And it’s on sale from pretty much anywhere you can think of!

Author? Who, me?

Words cannot explain how odd it is to find my (print) book on sale around the web. In fact, since pictures are worth a thousand words, here’s an apt photo of me from Halloween a couple years back, looking as dazed and confused as I feel now.

(I was a zombie nurse; it was really cool.)

I want to thank everyone for their encouragement so far. Publishing Hungry For You has been an incredibly rewarding experience and it wouldn’t have been half as fun without you guys.

Insider info: the print version of Hungry For You contains some exciting new stuff not included in the ebook, including three extra short stories, an insightful author afterword, and a story by fellow 1889 Labs author MCM. Not to mention the really cool design tweaks!

Oh, yeah. The print version also contains a silly typo I was too late to correct. Oops? I hereby promise that anyone who finds said typo and emails me about it with their postal address, will get a rambling postcard from yours truly. I’ll even give you a hint: the typo is in one of the three new stories not included in the ebook version.

So what are you waiting for?

Grab YOUR print copy today to help keep that confused expression on my face: Amazon.com || Amazon.co.uk || Amazon.ca || Barnes & Nobles || Book Depository || Chapter’s || Powell’s… and many more.