The Calvin Sky is up and available for download on Amazon! It’s $1.99 for Kindle, and if you don’t own a Kindle you can still just download the Kindle Preview App (click here!) and read the collection of short stories on your computer.
Enjoy!
Hi, dear readers!
So, I’ve gone ahead and reduced the price of the e-book versions of Somewhere Over the Sun. I hope this makes it more affordable for all those who have been wanting to read it.
Some customer reviews can be found here.
(Note: If you’re outside the U.S the price might be a little higher, due to taxes and operating costs, according to Amazon)
This is the latest review. I feel posting a link to this might lead to a much needed sale or two.
I knew I’d love this book after reading the excerpt on the author’s website, and I was not mistaken. It was fun and quirky and made me smile almost immediately. The thing I loved most about this book was the way it reminded me about imagination and how it important it is to cultivate it. We lose so much of our imagination once we leave childhood and Alsaid brings it back gloriously. And I can promise you I’ve never read a more creative sex scene in my life. I’ll never look at my clothes the same way again! The author’s words made me smile, they made me laugh, and yes, they even made me cry, but mostly they made me happy. Pick up a copy…because we can all use a little happy in our lives.
If you have already bought and read Somewhere Over the Sun, please post your review on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. It’d be greatly appreciated!
On Thursday, I managed only a couple hundred words before I decided to grant myself a weekend off from writing. Then ensued a crazy weekend which included a burned face, trajineras, 5 a.m. street tacos, corrupt cops, basketball, live jazz, unfulfilled promises of salsa dancing, a fair share of night clubs, future book ideas, drunken conversations, e-book releases, car ride adventures and plenty (read: plenty) of alcohol. Ants are happy.
Today, I sat back in front of my computer and spouted 1,000 words in a couple of hours. It felt good to have the words flow. Equally as satisfying was looking back at parts of my second novel and getting caught up in reading and forgetting to write. I forget if I’ve used a name before or what a character does for a living and have to go back and read through and I find that what I wrote long ago is actually pretty good. It’s every artist’s inclination to doubt and admire themselves. This is shit, we tell ourselves, and then respond with, this is awesome.
Book two is going well at 72,500 words. The first draft will probably be done with a final word count somewhere between 90,000 and 100,000. Which means that it will be done near the end of March. I haven’t had any real outside indication whether I have more reason to believe my self-doubt or my self-aplomb, but that’s where revisions come in.
Meanwhile promotion for Somewhere Over the Sun continues with more review requests from book bloggers, as well as a few requests from popular blogs here on Tumblr. I’ve sent out copies to a few book awards organizations. Links to reviews should be forthcoming, including one in my former employer, the Rebel Yell.
Also, I love people. No matter how weird you think you are, how close you are to operating on the fringe of society, feel free to contact me. I’m all about being approachable, so do approach.
Early this afternoon, a militia of renegade stray cats overthrew the Israeli government in what experts are calling an “unlikely event”. Many of the cats are tabbies, and are known ex-convicts, believed to be a part of the notorious North Dakotan terrorist group El-Kabbab. The militia is calling for the end of a decade-long Swedish embargo on catnip.
Tensions rise as the weekend and Sabbath approach.
In other news, Kindle, Nook and iPad versions of Somewhere Over the Sun should be uploaded to their respective sites by the end of February. The cats are okay with this development.
I’ve been indulging in my creativity lately and haven’t taken the time to give you guys updates about the novel. Sales are still trickling through, but word-of-mouth takes time, and most of the reviewers I’ve sent the book to still haven’t had the chance to get to them. An upcoming review and interview over at Girls Just Reading has been pushed back to next week. For you fellow aspiring novelists, make sure you’re equipped with some patience.
The e-book version of Somewhere Over the Sun will be available in about a week. That includes Kindle, Nook and Apple products. I’ll let you know as soon as I do when those are officially out. That should help boost sales a little bit.
I recently received a burst of Tumblr attention for my post “Letter to a Young Novelist” which was inspired by the reading of the book, “Letters to a Young Novelist” by Mario Vargas Llosa. I wanted to say how overwhelmed and appreciative I am of the positive reactions to this little piece. I hope future pieces I post will inspire you to the same or greater degree.
Coming up very soon: a tiny excerpt from the novel, which I hope you’ll love enough to check out what my book is about and maybe drop a few dollars to get it.
